MCP Wiki Reader

🧠 MCP Wiki Reader

A simple MCP tool for extracting and converting Wikipedia article content to Markdown using a FastMCP server. Built with uv for fast and modern Python package management.

🚀 Features

• Fetch a Wikipedia article via URL
• Parse its main content using BeautifulSoup
• Convert HTML content to Markdown
• Robust error handling with custom MCP error types

📂 Project Structure

src/ └── mcp_wiki/ └── server.py # MCP tool implementation for Wikipedia article reading

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🛠 Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• uv for managing dependencies
• MCP framework (FastMCP, McpError, etc.)

Install dependencies:

uv pip install -r requirements.txt
You can also use uv venv and uv pip for full environment isolation.

▶️ Running the Server
To start the MCP server, run:

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mcp dev src/mcp_wiki/server.py
This will launch the FastMCP server on:

🔗 http://127.0.0.1:6274

Registered as the wiki tool, the server exposes the following method:

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read_wikipedia_article("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)")
📦 Package Info
This project uses uv – a super fast Python package manager:

Speedy installation and resolution

Native support for pyproject.toml

Great for modern Python workflows

📝 License
MIT License

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