natural-history-museum-mcp 0.1.21

MCP server for the British Natural History Museum data API

A Model Context Protocol Server for the British Natural History Museum Data API

This project is a Python MCP (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) server that allows your LLM to fetch data from the British Natural History Museum. Data can be fetched from their Specimens or Index Lots collections. More info on their Data API is available at https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/dataportal-docs/#introduction.

Developing

This section is for anyone who wants to contribute to the codebase.

Setup and Install Dependencies

Clone the repository.

The project is configured to use uv (Install link: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/#installation) for dependency management and building. It uses npx (Install link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx) to run the MCP inspector.

Create a virtual env with

uv venv

And install dependencies with

uv pip install -r pyproject.toml

Run the inspector with

./inspector.sh

The inspector should run at http://localhost:5173.

Running Unit Tests

source .venv/bin/activate
pytest