Learn MCP Servers with Python (EASY)

In this video, I explain what an MCP server is, how it works and how to create an MCP Server that we will use with Claude Desktop and Claude Code.

🔗 Links
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Repo + Blog post (actually a readme): https://github.com/alejandro-ao/mcp-server-example
MCP docs (with most of the commands I used here): http://modelcontextprotocol.io/
Complete AI Engineer Bootcamp: https://aibootcamp.dev (taught by me)
Buy me a coffee... or a beer (thanks): buymeacoffee.com/alejandro.ao

🛠️ What You'll Learn:
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- Set up a modern Python development environment with UV package manager
- Build an MCP server from scratch using FastMCP
- Implement Google Search API integration for documentation search
- Parse and process web content with BeautifulSoup
- Configure Claude Desktop for MCP server integration
- Handle async operations with httpx
- Implement proper error handling and timeouts

📚 Technologies Covered:
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- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Python 3.10+
- UV Package Manager
- FastMCP SDK
- Claude Desktop
- httpx
- BeautifulSoup
- Google Serper API

⏱️ Timestamps
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0:00 intro
1:36 What is an Agent
5:33 What is MCP
8:12 What We Will Build
9:27 Building Our Own MCP Server
14:22 Serper API
16:55 Helper Functions
20:20 Create an MCP tool
26:34 MCP + Claude Desktop
30:29 MCP + Claude Code
35:26 Debug MCP Servers
38:15 Conclusion