PyEuropePMC MCP Server

What the code does

We read the source, 20 h ago · rules 995398eba69f

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

                subprocess.run(  # nosec B603, B607

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

claude mcp add pyeuropepmc -- uvx pyeuropepmc

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyeuropepmc": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.pyeuropepmc]
command = "uvx"
args = ["pyeuropepmc"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyeuropepmc": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "pyeuropepmc": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Log level, written to stderr: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING or ERROR), SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY (Optional. Raises the Semantic Scholar rate limit used by citation_snowball, the semantic_scholar source of unified_search and the DOI route of download_papers_pdf; without it requests are throttled and may get HTTP 429), OPENAI_API_KEY (Optional. Enables the LLM-powered tools (analyze_citations, literature_review, paper_screening, ...) with any OpenAI-compatible API. Needs the agentic extra), OPENAI_BASE_URL (Optional. Base URL of an OpenAI-compatible API for the LLM tools), OPENAI_MODEL (Optional. Model for the LLM tools), UNPAYWALL_EMAIL (Optional. Your contact e-mail address, sent with each Unpaywall request (their terms ask for one). Used by the find_open_access and download_papers_pdf tools (without it download_papers_pdf skips the Unpaywall source); there is no default), PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_DOWNLOAD_DIR (Optional. Folder where the download_papers_pdf tool saves PDFs on the machine running the server. Default: ~/Downloads/pyeuropepmc).