Open Library & File Search Server

This project is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server built with TypeScript and Node.js. It provides two core tools:

1. search_author — search for books by author using the Open Library API.
2. search_in_file — search for a keyword inside any local text file.

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🚀 Features

🔍 search_author

Fetches book data by a given author name from the Open Library API.

Input

{
  "author": "tolkien"
}

Output A JSON response containing book search results.

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🗂 search_in_file

Scans a file for a keyword and returns the matching lines and their numbers.

Input

{
  "filePath": "./sample.txt",
  "keyword": "example"
}

Output

Found 2 match(es) for "example" in "./sample.txt":

Line 3: This is an example line
Line 8: Another example text

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🏗️ Project Structure

MCP/
├── build/           # Compiled JS files
├── src/             # Source TypeScript files
│   └── index.ts
├── sample.txt       # Example file for keyword search
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

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⚙️ Setup & Run

1. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

2. Build

   npm run build
   

3. Run

   npm start
   

   Or directly (without compiling):

   npm run dev
   

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🧩 Example: Using in MCP Inspector

For search_in_file:

{
  "filePath": "./sample.txt",
  "keyword": "OpenAI"
}

For search_author:

{
  "author": "tolkien"
}

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🧠 Technologies

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• @modelcontextprotocol/sdk
• Zod

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🧾 License

MIT License © 2025

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👨‍💻 Author

Your Name 📧 [email protected] 🌐 github.com/maniranjan2023