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252 points iosifache | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 21:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source

I was looking around for an MCP server that could connect Anna's Archive to Claude Desktop, as I wanted to be able to search and download books directly through the interface.

I couldn't find any public implementations, so ended up building one myself.

What it does?

- It searches Anna's Archive by keywords. - It downloads books from search results. - It works directly in Claude Desktop through MCP.

Check out the repository's README for detailed installation and configuration instructions.

The code is fully open source and builds run on GitHub Actions for transparency.

I figured I'd share, since I couldn't be the only one wanting this functionality!

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xmonkee ◴[09 Jul 25 22:15 UTC] No.44515242[source]▶
I'm an LLM noob, but how feasible it is to make a research agent that can not only download articles, but read and reference them in it's process?
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1. iosifache ◴[09 Jul 25 22:23 UTC] No.44515311[source]▶
It's doable, as you'll also find MCP servers for reading files [1].

Claude Desktop also has a built-in file reader [2], so you can ask it to read the file and process the content (e.g., generate a summary or even a meta-summary [3]).

[1] https://github.com/sylphxltd/pdf-reader-mcp [2] https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr... [3] https://x.com/iosifache/status/1942247320302547175