How to Install xiaohongshu-mcp on Ubuntu 24.04

xiaohongshu-mcp is a Model Context Protocol server that connects AI assistants like Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code to xiaohongshu.com (Little Red Book), China’s leading social commerce and lifestyle platform. It lets AI agents search notes, fetch note details, and publish new posts directly through the MCP tool interface. The project ships with a login and check-session workflow, cookie-based authentication, and ready-made configuration examples for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and the Inspect MCP client. Written in Go and published under the Apache-2.0 license, it has earned over 15,000 GitHub stars and its official Docker image has been pulled more than 120,000 times.