Build / Lovable

Synorb for Lovable.

Give your Lovable app live, source-grounded intelligence — real, cited, dated events and claims, not stale training data or scraped guesses. Use Synorb MCP in the Lovable chat to design with real data, then serve fresh results from a backend your users can safely call. No MCP knowledge required.

What to build with Lovable and Synorb.

Each is a complete, deployable product: click in, answer a few plain-English questions, and get a working app with live, cited Synorb data — sources one click away.

StatehouseAtlas

A living map of what your state legislature is actually doing - every bill cited to the official source, refreshed daily through the 2026 midterms.

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Mission Control

A beautiful public site that explains what NASA and space science actually did this month - every fact cited, key moments you can listen to, refreshed automatically.

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Is This True?

An embeddable Q&A box for health and medicine that answers from tracked FDA, NIH, CDC, and clinical-trial sources, with a real citation on every sentence.

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Podcast Wire

A browsable weekly feed of what podcasts said - each episode shows the readable Brief and the structured Signals (claims), with filters by show, topic, and person/company, and a link to every episode.

Open build →

Connect in Lovable. Serve from your backend.

Use Synorb in the Lovable chat to build with live examples. When your app is published, your frontend calls a server-side function that keeps Synorb secrets off the page.

While you build in Lovable
Synorb MCP connector
Connects tomcp.synorb.com/mcp
UsesMCP token, saved in Lovable's chat connector
Helps youFind streams, inspect cited examples, and guide the app build
When your app runs
Synorb REST through a server-side function
Connects toapi.synorb.com
Usesapi-key + secret, stored as server-side secrets
Helps youServe fresh, cited results without exposing credentials

Keep secrets server-sideNever put a Synorb credential in a VITE_ variable or client-side code. The browser calls your server-side function; that function calls Synorb.

From zero to a live connector.

1

Get your credentials

Go to synorb.com/connect. You'll get an MCP token for the Lovable chat and an api-key + secret pair for your app backend. Keep each credential in the place it belongs.

2

Add Synorb as a chat connector

In the Lovable editor: Connectors → Chat connectors → New MCP server. This lets Lovable inspect Synorb data while it helps you build.

Server name
Synorb
Server URL
https://mcp.synorb.com/mcp
Auth type
Bearer token or API key
Token
your Synorb MCP token

If your Lovable version requires the older transport, use https://mcp.synorb.com/sse instead. Try /mcp first.

3

Test with a free call

In the Lovable chat, paste this. synorb-profile is zero-quota — it never bills.

Call synorb-profile and tell me my account name, current quota, and available date window.
4

Store your API secrets

In Lovable's Cloud → Secrets (or your framework's server-side secret store), add two secrets — do not use the VITE_ prefix:

SYNORB_API_KEY = your-api-key SYNORB_SECRET = your-secret
5

Serve it from a backend

Your frontend calls a server-side function; the server-side function calls Synorb with the secret. The REST API wraps responses as { data, usage } — cite each row's source_url and surface usage for quota.

const res = await fetch("https://api.synorb.com/streams/query", { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", "api-key": Deno.env.get("SYNORB_API_KEY"), "secret": Deno.env.get("SYNORB_SECRET"), }, body: JSON.stringify({ home_domains: ["all"], tag_names: ["OpenAI"], story_type: "briefs", days: 7, page_size: 10 }), });

Tell the agent which tool to use.

Synorb's Core MCP exposes eight tools. Only synorb-manifests bills quota — and only for returned, on-topic Manifests. Everything else is free.

synorb-profile
Account, quota, live date window. Call once. Zero quota.
synorb-stream-search
"What streams/sources do you have?" The inventory concierge. Zero quota.
synorb-catalog
Ranked stream candidates when search is thin. Zero quota.
synorb-manifests
The actual cited content. The only tool that bills — keep target_count 5–20. mode="count" is zero quota.
synorb-details
Richer metadata for specific streams. Zero quota.
synorb-configure-beacon + synorb-save-beacon + synorb-beacons + synorb-archive-beacon
Design, save, list, and archive re-runnable tracked queries. Zero quota.

Questions builders ask.

Is my Synorb token safe in a deployed Lovable app?

Yes. Use the MCP token only in Lovable's chat connector. For the shipped app, call Synorb from a server-side function with the REST api-key + secret stored as server-side secrets. Never put any Synorb credential in frontend code or a VITE_ variable.

Do I need to know MCP to use Synorb with Lovable?

No. You paste the Synorb MCP server URL and your token into Lovable's chat connector UI, then copy a build prompt into the chat. The agent does the rest.

What does Synorb return?

Manifests: structured units with a Brief (narrative summary), a Signal (atomic claims), nested source metadata, stable IDs, and citations with real source URLs. Render them as cards, feed them to RAG, or store them.

How much does it cost?

Free starter credentials are available with no card. Only synorb-manifests consumes quota, and only for returned on-topic Manifests; synorb-profile, synorb-stream-search, synorb-catalog, synorb-details, and the Beacon tools are zero quota. Quota resets on the first of each month.

When should I still use web search?

Use Synorb first for structured, source-grounded intelligence. Fall back to web search only for genuine gaps: ultra-fresh items from the last hour or two, very narrow local news, or topics outside Synorb's tracked scope.

Using a different agent?

The same Synorb MCP connects to major MCP-capable coding agents — same tools, same behavior.

Free credentials. No card.

Generate a starter key, paste it into Lovable, and pull your first cited Manifests in minutes.