Wikipedia MCP Server

This project provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes structured access to Wikipedia content. It uses the FastMCP framework to define tools for use in AI workflows, agents, or developer environments like Claude and VS Code.

✅ Features

• 🔍 Search for Wikipedia pages
• 📄 Retrieve page summary, full content, and HTML
• 🔗 Extract links, images, references, and categories
• 📌 Detect disambiguation options
• 📌 Check if a page exists
• ⚡ Built on FastMCP — plug into any agent system

🛠 Installation (Local)

git clone https://github.com/yourname/wikipedia-mcp-server.git

cd wikipedia-mcp-server

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

python wikipedia_mcp_server.py

🛠 Installation (Docker)

🐳 Docker Setup

Build the container:

docker build -t wikipedia-mcp .

Run the server:

docker run -it --rm wikipedia-mcp

🛠 Usage

🧠 Available Tools

📁 File Structure

.
├── wikipedia_mcp_server.py
├── requirements.txt
├── Dockerfile
├── README.md

💻 VS Code / Claude MCP Integration

Add this to your .vscode/settings.json or Claude configuration to launch this server using MCP:

✅ For Local Python Execution

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "wikipedia": {
        "type": "stdio",
        "command": "python3",
        "args": [
          "/absolute/path/to/wikipedia_mcp_server.py"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

🐳 For Docker Execution

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "wikipedia": {
        "type": "stdio",
        "command": "docker",
        "args": [
          "run",
          "--rm",
          "-i",
          "--mount",
          "type=bind,src=${workspaceFolder},dst=/workspace",
          "wikipedia-mcp"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}