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It lets an AI assistant measure how much attention news media pay to a topic, compare sources and countries, examine the language of coverage, and find story URLs.\n\nThis is an independent project, not an official Media Cloud product. It is built on the official [`mediacloud`](https://pypi.org/project/mediacloud/) Python client.\n\n## Setup\n\nYou need [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) and a Media Cloud API key. You don't need to install Python or this package yourself: `uvx` downloads whatever is missing the first time the server starts.\n\n### 1. Install uv\n\nOn macOS or Linux:\n\n```bash\ncurl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh\n```\n\nOn Windows:\n\n```powershell\npowershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c \"irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex\"\n```\n\nThen open a new terminal, so that it can find the `uvx` command.\n\n### 2. Get a Media Cloud API key\n\n[Sign in to Media Cloud](https://search.mediacloud.org/sign-in), click the person icon at the top right, choose **Profile**, and copy your API key.\n\n### 3. Add the server to your MCP client\n\nFor Claude Code, run:\n\n```bash\nclaude mcp add media-cloud --env MC_API_KEY=your-api-key -- uvx media-cloud-mcp\n```\n\nFor Claude Desktop and other clients that use a JSON configuration, add this to the configuration file. In Claude Desktop, that's `claude_desktop_config.json`, which you can open from **Settings > Developer > Edit Config**.\n\n```json\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"media-cloud\": {\n      \"command\": \"uvx\",\n      \"args\": [\"media-cloud-mcp\"],\n      \"env\": { \"MC_API_KEY\": \"your-api-key\" }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nRestart the client after changing its configuration. You don't need to start the server yourself, because the client does that. 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