API access to your Recall knowledge base
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Paul Richards
The API would allow you to access all your Recall data as well as add more content and edit existing content.
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Sankari Nair
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API access has been one of the biggest requested features for some time now. Excited to share that this is well underway and coming soon in a read-only format to start.
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getrecall.ejnzp
Sankari Nair this is incredible! thanks
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Matthew A. Pigatt
Sankari Nair excellent! Thank you! Will it be able to access the reader and notebook? Access to both would be critical to my workflow.
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Jason Kaiser
Recall Clone — "Capture"
The risk for Recall: refusing to ship an API pushes power users to clone the app locally — or worse, commercially. I don't need "all the things." I need something that saves a link with an AI-generated summary to a markdown file on my machine.
So I tell Claude Code:
"Clone Recall AI by deeply researching https://docs.getrecall.ai/. I only need features X, Y, and Z. Ensure API access is enabled so agents can interact with my data."
Opus 4.6 is incredibly capable, and with the new Ultraplan feature, even more so.Core Flow
Chrome Extension → Local Express API (port 3019) → Claude CLI (Opus 4.6) → Obsidian vault MD file
Chrome Extension
- Toolbar button to capture the current page
- Right-click menu: "Capture Page" or "Capture Selection"
- Popup with loading spinner, then success link to the vault file
- Optional quick annotation before submitting
Recommended Features
- Smart tagging— Claude extracts tags and maps them to your existing vault taxonomy
- Selection capture— highlight text, right-click to capture just that excerpt with page context
- Daily capture log— auto-maintainedCaptures/Daily/2026-04-08.mdlinking all captures from that day
- Vault backlinks— Claude generates[[wikilinks]]to existing notes when topics match
- Capture types— type-specific prompts for articles, YouTube (transcripts), PDFs, and tweets
- Quick capture mode— save link + title with no AI processing for read-later items
What to Skip from Recall
- Knowledge graph — Obsidian's graph view already covers this
- Spaced repetition/quizzes — not the use case
- Augmented browsing — overkill
- Cloud sync — Obsidian handles it
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Matthew A. Pigatt
This is disappointing... the most-requested feature for almost half a year has still not been moved to the planned roadmap...
Sankari Nair it was good meeting with you and sharing my hopes for what this app could be. I had high hopes for Recall and was one of the early adopters. Unfortunately, I just got my upcoming renewal subscription notice. I'll go through the tedious process of downloading my data and canceling my subscription.
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Sankari Nair
Matthew A. Pigatt hey Matthew, we actually wanted to keep this one as a surprise, but this has been in progress for a while and will be coming soon. I've gone ahead and moved it into progress.
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Matthew A. Pigatt
Sankari Nair I am happy to hear this. I was so disappointed that I started not using it as much, fearing I would not have access to my knowledge base. Thank you! Will it be able to access the reader and notebook? Access to both would be critical to my workflow.
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Sankari Nair
Matthew A. Pigatt Yes, indeed!
Sankari Nair
Merged in a post:
MCP service
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Ed Boutros
MCP simplifies issues related to the API and facilitates integration with other systems, such as Claude desktop and Claude. The friction involved in connecting to this data source should be minimized, as no other application currently offers comparable capabilities to collect information from mobile devices and desktops.
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Chris Holloway
even an mcp so we can interact with it to organise
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clark.venable
As I explore building an Open Brain [https://github.com/NateBJones-Projects/OB1/tree/main], for example, I'm learning the value of just being able to give access to data I own via an MCP server. Recall tools are fantastic for capturing information and, yes, I can chat with the knowledge base, but and MCP server would allow me to do that in the environment of my choice.
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Keenan Burke-Pitts
clark.venable Exactly!!
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phonics-spud-puppy
API preferred will take an MCP or webhook even. i really want access for my coding tools etc.
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dieter
Don't overcomplicate things. MCP would be enough for most users.
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dieter
YES, please!! Since the start I wanted a Readwise sync and have requested it several times. The reason for that is, that I can use Readwise highlights in Claude via MCP (and other places). Currently Recall is a silo and we all know what happens to them over time - they die. So either sync Recall summaries to Readwise or even better, give us MCP access. Only then I can really do something with the knowledge here. Otherwise it will go down the silo road.
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Matthew A. Pigatt
My subscription renews in May. If this isn't moved to planned by then. I will not be renewing.
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