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.
Before installation, ensure you have:
git clone https://github.com/crtdaniele/mcp-medium-accelerator
cd mcp-medium-accelerator
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
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
The MCP server provides several tools for working with Medium articles:
Extracts article links from a Medium archive URL and returns a list of links.
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.
Saves an article summary including title, URL, and tags. Returns a status message.
Lists all saved summaries and returns them as a list.
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"
]
}
}
}
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.
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.
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"
]
}
}
}
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.
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.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.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