API for developers

Read the MemoryCareHomes data as JSON. The API is free, needs no key and reads only. Base URL: https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1.

The OpenAPI 3.1 description is at /api/v1/openapi.json. Any website may call the API from a browser.

Endpoints

Each endpoint in this table takes GET. Any other method gives 405. A parameter that is not listed gives 400.

Endpoints of the MemoryCareHomes API, with their parameters
Endpoint	Returns	Parameters
`GET /api/v1/listings`	Search and list listings	`q` (query, optional, string) Search text, with at least one letter or digit. Matches name, categories, attributes, description and place. Typos fall back to close matches. `country` (query, optional, string) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, any case. A country the directory does not cover, as listed in /places, gives 400. `region` (query, optional, string) Region slug, from /places. `city` (query, optional, string) City slug, from /places. `category` (query, optional, string) Category slug, from /categories. A parent slug also matches its children. `sort` (query, optional, one of: `relevance`, `name`, `recent`) `relevance` needs `q` and is the default with it. `name` is the default without `q`. `recent` is newest first. `limit` (query, optional, integer, 1 to 50, default 20) Items per page. `cursor` (query, optional, string) `page.nextCursor` from the previous response. Opaque. Send the same filters and `limit`.
`GET /api/v1/listings/{slug}`	Read one listing	`slug` (path, required, string) The listing slug.
`GET /api/v1/places`	List countries, regions and cities with counts	None
`GET /api/v1/categories`	List the category tree with counts	None
`GET /api/v1/sources`	List the data sources with license and refresh	None
`GET /api/v1/stats`	Counts and the last update	None

Examples

Find memory care homes

curl "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/listings?category=memory-care-homes&country=US&limit=5"

Read the next page

curl "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/listings?limit=5&cursor=<page.nextCursor from the last response>"

Read one memory care home

slug=$(curl -s "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/listings?limit=1" | jq -r '.data[0].slug')
curl "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/listings/$slug"

List the places and categories you can filter by

curl "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/places"
curl "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/api/v1/categories"

MCP server

An AI agent can use the same data through MCP at https://memorycarehomes.fyi/mcp. It takes POST only: a GET in a browser gives 405. The server uses Streamable HTTP, keeps no session and needs no key. It reads only. It has the same rate limit, the same public fields and the same credit line as the API. The server card describes it.

search_listings: : Search published memory care homes by text, place and category.
get_listing: : Get one published memory care home by its slug.
list_places: : List countries, regions and cities that have memory care homes.
list_categories: : List categories with their memory care home counts.
get_stats: : Get the number of published memory care homes, places and categories, and when the data last changed.
list_sources: : List where the memory care home data comes from, with the license and refresh of each source.

Add it to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http memorycarehomes https://memorycarehomes.fyi/mcp

Add it to a client that reads an mcpServers file, such as Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "memorycarehomes": {
      "url": "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/mcp"
    }
  }
}

List the tools with curl

curl -X POST "https://memorycarehomes.fyi/mcp" -H "content-type: application/json" -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Responses

A successful response has data and meta. A list response also has page, with these fields:

limit: : items on each page.
total: : items that match.
nextCursor: : send it back as cursor, with the same filters and limit. It is null on the last page.
capped: : true when more items match than the cursor can reach.
fuzzy: : true when the items are close matches for q.

An error has error (a sentence), code and sometimes details. Branch on code: invalid_parameter, invalid_cursor, not_found, method_not_allowed, rate_limited, internal_error.

A memory care home with indexable: false is public through the API. Its page is kept out of search engines. Do not link to it as if it were a normal page.

Rate limits and caching

Each client may send 300 requests in 60 seconds. Every GET response has RateLimit-Limit and RateLimit-Policy. Over the limit you get 429 with Retry-After: wait that many seconds. The limit is counted at each Cloudflare location.

A successful response sends Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=600 and an ETag. Send the ETag back as If-None-Match to get 304 with no body.

Credit and licenses

Show this credit line next to the data you display:

Data from MemoryCareHomes (https://memorycarehomes.fyi). Each record keeps the license of its source, listed in meta.sources. A listing is a record, not an endorsement.

Every response lists its sources in meta.sources. Keep a source's license when you reuse its records.

Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, adult family home lookup: license Washington public-record licensing data; no formal licence text, refreshed monthly
Care Quality Commission, provider directory: license Open Government Licence v3.0, refreshed monthly
Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Quality Assurance, CBRF and adult family home directories: license Wisconsin public-record licensing data; no formal licence text, refreshed monthly
Care Inspectorate, Scotland, datastore of care services: license Open Government Licence v3.0, refreshed quarterly
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, register of regulated services: license Open Government Licence v3.0, refreshed monthly

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