Medium Accelerator MCP server

Accelerates Medium article research by extracting article links from archive pages, scraping full content for summarization, and maintaining a persistent local database of article summaries with metadata for efficient content discovery and organization.
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Provider
Daniele Carta
Release date
May 31, 2025
Stats
2 stars

The MCP Medium Accelerator allows Language Learning Models like Claude Desktop to extract links from Medium archive pages (e.g., "https://medium.com/tag/frontend/archive"), create summaries of articles (including in Italian), and save them locally for future reference.

Installation

Prerequisites

Before installation, ensure you have:

  • Python 3.10 or higher
  • Claude Desktop

Local Setup

  1. Clone the repository and navigate to the project directory:
git clone https://github.com/crtdaniele/mcp-medium-accelerator
cd mcp-medium-accelerator
  1. Create and activate a virtual environment:
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
  1. Install the required dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the MCP Server

To run the server in development mode with hot reload:

mcp dev main.py

To run the server in standard mode:

mcp run main.py

Available Tools

The MCP server provides several tools for working with Medium articles:

extract_article_links

Extracts article links from a Medium archive URL and returns a list of links.

extract_article_text

Extracts the content from a Medium article URL and returns the article content. It will ask the user if they want to save the summary using the save_summary tool.

save_summary

Saves an article summary including title, URL, and tags. Returns a status message.

list_summaries

Lists all saved summaries and returns them as a list.

Installing on Claude Desktop

You can install the MCP server on Claude Desktop with:

mcp install main.py

Alternatively, you can manually configure the settings.json file (Claude Desktop > Settings > Advanced):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-medium-accelerator": {
      "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "bs4",
        "--with",
        "httpx",
        "--with",
        "datetime",
        "--with",
        "tinydb",
        "--with",
        "mcp[cli]",
        "mcp",
        "run",
        "/your-local-path/main.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "mcp-medium-accelerator" '{"command":"/opt/homebrew/bin/uv","args":["run","--with","bs4","--with","httpx","--with","datetime","--with","tinydb","--with","mcp[cli]","mcp","run","/your-local-path/main.py"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-medium-accelerator": {
            "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--with",
                "bs4",
                "--with",
                "httpx",
                "--with",
                "datetime",
                "--with",
                "tinydb",
                "--with",
                "mcp[cli]",
                "mcp",
                "run",
                "/your-local-path/main.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

  • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
  • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
  • Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-medium-accelerator": {
            "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
            "args": [
                "run",
                "--with",
                "bs4",
                "--with",
                "httpx",
                "--with",
                "datetime",
                "--with",
                "tinydb",
                "--with",
                "mcp[cli]",
                "mcp",
                "run",
                "/your-local-path/main.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect

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