# Something Awful Forums

> Use this tool when you need to interact with the Something Awful Forums platform, enabling you to browse forums, read threads, and access user profiles, among other functions. It solves problems of accessing forum data and functionality despite the lack of a public API, using HTML parsing to provide necessary information. Ideal for use cases requiring automated or scripted interaction with the forums, using account credentials for authentication and control.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums

## Description

Enables interaction with Something Awful Forums using account credentials. Provides 9 tools for authentication, forum browsing, thread reading, search, user profiles, private messaging, and control panel access through HTML parsing since the forum lacks a public API.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.92
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** security
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bphillab/somethingawful_forums_mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gh-bphillab-something-awful-forums/pull`

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