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Melon

Melon charts, catalogue lookups, and personal listening history in Korean

Listed in Claude · 26 published tools · Verified partner

Claude connector docs newsroom.kakaoent.com

Overview

What Melon does

Melon is Kakao Entertainment's Korean music service, and the connector splits into catalogue access and account-scoped reads. On the catalogue side it retrieves official charts, song, album and artist detail, genre trees, new releases, curated playlists and unified keyword search. On the personal side it reads recently played items, playlists the account owns, most-played rankings over a chosen period, liked content and per-song streaming history, and it can produce recommendation sets from Melon's own preference model. Playback stays inside the Melon app: the connector hands back URLs rather than audio. Responses are Korean only at the time of listing, with the publisher stating an English version is planned.

Who it is for

Korean-language listeners and chart watchers with an active Melon account.

Tool surface

The endpoint returned 18 tools against the 26 the listing claims. Fourteen are get_* reads, two are dj_mallang recommendation calls, and create_playback_url only mints a link, so nothing in the observed set changes an account.

Availability

Where Melon is listed

Melon is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Kakao Entertainment has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.

The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.

Claude listing

In the Claude connectors directory

Melon publishes 26 tools to Claude, deeper than 77.5% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors.

The median Claude-listed connector filed under Productivity publishes 12, so this one runs 14 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 111th of 462 by tool count.

It falls in the 21-50 tools band, which holds 20% of the Claude directory.

Measured against the live endpoint

A direct call to the endpoint returned 18 tools, 8 fewer than the 26 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07.

Tools the server actually returns

  • get_music_chart
  • get_playlist_tracks
  • get_music_content_details
  • get_artist_contents
  • get_music_content_url
  • get_genres
  • get_music_contents_by_genre
  • get_recently_played_music_contents
  • get_my_created_playlists
  • get_my_most_listened_songs
  • get_my_liked_music_contents
  • get_latest_music_contents
  • create_playback_url
  • get_melon_curated_playlists
  • search_melon_music_contents
  • recommend_personalized_songs_by_dj_mallang
  • recommend_similar_songs_by_dj_mallang
  • get_song_streaming_report

Melon publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.

Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.

Publisher
Kakao Entertainment
Verification
Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
Filed under
Productivity
Endpoint
https://mcp.melon.com/mcp/
Published tools
26 · 21-50 tools band
Depth rank in Productivity
111 of 462
Snapshot
August 2026

Melon carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.

In the publisher's words

How Kakao Entertainment describes it

Explore a variety of Melon charts, get personalized music recommendations just for you, and discover your listening habits. All in one place. You can even play songs directly in the Melon app. • Browse detailed information about artists, albums, and tracks. • Search for songs and playlists using Melon charts and trending keywords. • Enjoy personalized recommendations based on the songs you love and listen to most. The service is currently available in Korean only. An English version is scheduled to be made available within this year, with an anticipated release in October.

Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.

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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Melon's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Kakao Entertainment, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.

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