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