Connect your assistant to LivingSocial

This guide is for people who want to shop with their own AI assistant. Building an AI agent? See LivingSocial for agents. Building a site or app? See How it works.

Connecting is optional. The shopping prompt works with any assistant that can read the web or call an API, with nothing to install. Connect LivingSocial's MCP server if your assistant takes connectors and you prefer that.

LivingSocial runs its own MCP server, so a person's AI assistant can search eligible Groupon US offers directly. Once your assistant is connected, you can ask it to find an offer, read its details and prepare a purchase. You pay yourself, on Groupon's own checkout page. The assistant never pays.

MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is how an assistant such as ChatGPT or Claude reaches a service outside the chat. You add the server's address to your assistant once. The server needs no account and no API key: your assistant's first search opens a shopping session.

https://api-core.livingsocial.com/mcp_customers/mcp

The address is for assistants: opening it in a browser shows no page. It speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP, answers in JSON and accepts POST only.

If you are building an agent rather than connecting one, LivingSocial for agents describes offer discovery and cart operations over HTTP, which work without MCP.

Connect your assistant

The steps below follow each vendor's own documentation and may change. If a menu looks different, follow the vendor's current instructions and use the address above, with no authentication.

Claude

On Claude for the web and the desktop app:

1. Open Customize, then Connectors.
2. Select + Add, then Add custom connector.
3. Enter a name, for example LivingSocial, and the server address above. Select Continue.
4. Under Authentication, choose No sign in, then select Add.

Custom connectors are available on the Free plan (one connector), Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. Claude asks you to approve each tool call.

ChatGPT

On ChatGPT for the web:

1. Open Settings, then Connectors, then Advanced, and turn Developer Mode on. On some accounts the switch is under Settings, then Security and login.
2. Back in Connectors, select Create.
3. Enter a name, for example LivingSocial, and the server address above as the Server URL. Under Authentication, choose No Auth, then select Create.

Developer Mode is available on the Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education plans, not on Free. A connector created this way is private to your account.

Other assistants and tools

Any other assistant or tool that connects to a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP can use the address above. Add it with no credentials.

Muse

LivingSocial is reviewing what Muse needs from a shopping connector. A connection for Muse is not offered yet.