MCP Server with Wikipedia Article Tool

This is an HTTP SSE-based MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that features a tool for fetching and converting Wikipedia articles to Markdown.

Features

• MCP server implementation using FastMCP
• Server-Sent Events (SSE) for client-server communication
• Wikipedia article fetching tool
• Conversion of HTML content to Markdown

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Dependencies listed in requirements.txt
• uv (Python package manager)

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/codingaslu/http-sse-mcp-starter.git
cd http-sse-mcp-starter

# Install dependencies using uv
uv pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Starting the Server

python server.py

The server will start on http://localhost:8000 with the following endpoints:

• /sse: For SSE connections from clients
• /messages/: For handling incoming POST messages

Using the Client

# List server capabilities
uv run -- client.py http://localhost:8000/sse

# Fetch a Wikipedia article
uv run -- client.py http://localhost:8000/sse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

MCP Server Capabilities

The MCP server provides:

• Tools: Functions that can be called by clients
• Resources: Data resources available to clients
• Prompts: Pre-defined prompts for AI assistants

The read_wikipedia_article tool fetches an article from Wikipedia, parses its content, and converts it to Markdown format.

License

MIT License