Drawing Guides

Easy Drawing Guides (easydrawingguides.com)

- Focus: Step-by-step drawing tutorials for all skill levels
- Content: Animals, people, plants, cartoons, objects, anime, video games
- Features: Detailed instructions, printable worksheets, video tutorials
- Audience: Kids, beginners, and hobbyists
- Web Scraping: Uses requests and BeautifulSoup to fetch and parse web content
- Content Targeting: Extracts content specifically from<div class="inside-article">
- Ad Removal: Removes<div class="mv-ad-box">elements to clean up content
- Markdown Conversion: Converts HTML content to clean, readable Markdown format
- Metadata Generation: Creates structured metadata for each guide
- Site Search: Queries Easy Drawing Guides for relevant tutorials
- Relevance Ranking: Sorts results by keyword relevance in titles
- URL Validation: Validates each URL to ensure it's accessible before including in results
- Content Filtering: Filters out irrelevant or duplicate results
- Source Attribution: Clearly identifies the source of each result

All tools return structured responses with separate blocks for:

- Metadata: Source, URL, content statistics, search parameters
- Content: Main tutorial content and descriptions
- Instructions: Step-by-step drawing instructions when available
- References: Image URLs and alt text for visual reference

- Find step-by-step tutorials for specific subjects
- Learn fundamental drawing techniques
- Access beginner-friendly instructions with clear steps

- Discover family-friendly drawing activities
- Find age-appropriate art projects for children
- Access educational content for art classes

- Get inspiration for new drawing subjects
- Find reference materials and instruction guides
- Learn new drawing styles and techniques

- Source tutorial content for art education
- Find step-by-step processes to reference
- Access structured drawing instruction data

Configure your AI assistantto use this MCP server

Ask your AI assistant:"Search for drawing tutorials about dogs"
- Search Easy Drawing Guides for "dogs"
- Return structured metadata (query, result count, sources)
- Provide a list of relevant tutorials with validated URLs
- Include direct access to full guides

Ask your AI assistant:"Get the detailed instructions for this drawing guide: [URL]"
- Fetch the complete tutorial content from the URL
- Extract content from the main article section (removes ads)
- Convert HTML content to clean Markdown format
- Return structured metadata and formatted content

Ask your AI assistant:"What drawing categories are available?"
- Return organized lists of categories from Easy Drawing Guides
- Provide popular search terms and suggestions
- Help you discover new drawing topics and themes

mcp-drawing-guides/ ├── main.py # Main MCP server implementation ├── pyproject.toml # Project dependencies and metadata ├── README.md # This documentation └── .venv/ # Virtual environment (created by uv)

- mcp: Model Context Protocol framework
- requests: HTTP library for web scraping
- beautifulsoup4: HTML parsing and content extraction
- lxml: Fast XML and HTML parser
- markdownify: HTML to Markdown conversion

The server can be easily customized by modifyingmain.py:

- Add New Sites: Extend the search functions to support additional tutorial sites
- Improve Parsing: Enhance content extraction for better step identification
- Content Filtering: Add custom filters for content quality or appropriateness
- Caching: Implement caching to improve performance and reduce server load

cd mcp-drawing-guides uvx --from . mcp-drawing-guides

cd mcp-drawing-guides uv run python main.py

The server communicates via JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout, so you'll need an MCP client or AI assistant to interact with it properly.
- Import Errors: Make sure all dependencies are installed withuv sync
- Network Issues: Check internet connectivity for accessing tutorial sites
- Parsing Errors: Some pages may have different structures; the server handles this gracefully
- Rate Limiting: Be respectful of the source sites' server resources

Enable debug logging by modifying the logging level inmain.py:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

- Respect: This server respects the robots.txt and terms of service of source sites
- Attribution: All content is properly attributed to its original source
- Non-Commercial: Intended for educational and personal use
- Fair Use: Extracts only necessary content for tutorial purposes

This is a simple, single-file implementation designed for clarity and ease of modification. Feel free to:

- Add support for additional drawing tutorial sites
- Improve content extraction algorithms
- Add caching for better performance
- Extend with additional drawing-related features

This project uses the same license as its dependencies. The drawing tutorial content accessed through this server remains the property of the original sites and creators.

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