Books Mcp Server
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This is an MCP server used for querying books, and it can be applied in common MCP clients, such as Cherry Studio.
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- VmLia
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
Books Mcp ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
Clone the repository, create a virtual environment with uv venv, activate it, then install Python dependencies using uv add "mcp[cli]" httpx openai beautifulsoup4 lxml. Configure the server in Cherry Studio as a STDIO MCP server pointing to uv --directory <project-dir> run main.py.
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Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"books mcp server": {
"books-mcp-server": {
"name": "books-mcp",
"type": "stdio",
"description": "",
"isActive": true,
"registryUrl": "",
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/Enter your local project directory/books-mcp-server",
"run",
"main.py"
]
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"books-mcp-server": {
"name": "books-mcp",
"type": "stdio",
"description": "",
"isActive": true,
"registryUrl": "",
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/Enter your local project directory/books-mcp-server",
"run",
"main.py"
]
}
}Get the Project and Initialize
git clone https://github.com/VmLia/books-mcp-server.git
cd books-mcp-server
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat
Install Python Packages
uv add "mcp[cli]" httpx openai beautifulsoup4 lxml
uv add "mcp[cli]" httpx openai beautifulsoup4 lxml --index-url https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
Example of Using cherry-studio
Method 1: On the setting page of cherry-studio, click on the MCP server, then click "Add Server", and subsequently configure it on the page.Type
STDIO
Command
uv
Parameters
--directory
your project dir
run
main.py
Method 2: Use the configuration parameters
{
"mcpServers": {
"books-mcp-server": {
"name": "books-mcp",
"type": "stdio",
"description": "",
"isActive": true,
"registryUrl": "",
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/Enter your local project directory/books-mcp-server",
"run",
"main.py"
]
}
}
}
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