Baidu Baike MCP

Baidu Baike MCP (百度百科)

Baidu Baike MCP by Nishant Dilip Sharma (NishantDilipSharma/baidu-baike) — login-free Chinese encyclopedia search & structured entries for any MCP app.

Unofficial community project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Baidu, Inc. Covers Baidu Baike (百科 encyclopedia) only — not Baidu web search.

Generic Model Context Protocol (MCP) server by Nishant Dilip Sharma for searching and reading Baidu Baike.

One server for any MCP-compatible app — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT MCP clients, custom agents, and more.

• No login
• No API key
• Stdio MCP

Capabilities

Tool	What it does
baike_search	Search lemmas; titles, lemma IDs, blurbs, URLs
get_baike_entry	Structured entry (summary, infobox, catalog, body) by lemma, ID, or Baike URL

Fallbacks when cloud IPs hit Baidu WAF: Baike desktop → Baidu OpenAPI → Chinese Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org).

Chinese text is returned UTF-8 verbatim.

Author

Nishant Dilip Sharma · GitHub: NishantDilipSharma

Install from PyPI

pip install baidu-baike-mcp
# or
uvx --from baidu-baike-mcp baidu-baike-mcp

Then point your MCP client at the baidu-baike-mcp console script (or python -m baidu_baike_mcp).

1. Install the server (once)

git clone https://github.com/NishantDilipSharma/baidu-baike.git
cd baidu-baike/server
uv sync

Requirements: uv (recommended) or Python 3.12+.

Keep the absolute path to …/baidu-baike/server handy — every app below needs it.

2. How to add it to your app

All apps run the same stdio command. Only the config file / UI differs.

Shared MCP block (copy this)

Replace /absolute/path/to/baidu-baike/server with your real path:

"baidu-baike": {
  "command": "uv",
  "args": [
    "run",
    "--directory",
    "/absolute/path/to/baidu-baike/server",
    "python",
    "-m",
    "baidu_baike_mcp"
  ],
  "env": {
    "PYTHONIOENCODING": "utf-8",
    "PYTHONUTF8": "1"
  }
}

Full file example: mcp.stdio.example.json.

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Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config
2. Open claude_desktop_config.json
3. Under mcpServers, paste the shared block above (add commas as needed)
4. Save and fully quit/reopen Claude Desktop
5. Confirm baidu-baike tools appear in the MCP tools list

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Claude Code

1. Open Claude Code MCP settings (or edit its MCP config JSON)
2. Add the same baidu-baike server block under mcpServers
3. Restart Claude Code / reload MCP servers
4. Run a prompt that needs Baike lookup to verify baike_search / get_baike_entry

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Cursor

1. Open Cursor Settings → MCP (or edit your MCP config JSON)
2. Add the same baidu-baike stdio server block
3. Save and reload MCP servers
4. Optional: this repo also ships plugin metadata (.cursor-plugin/, plugin.json) for plugin loaders — still the same MCP underneath

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Codex / ChatGPT (MCP-compatible hosts)

1. Open the host’s custom MCP / tools / connectors settings
2. Choose add stdio MCP server (wording varies)
3. Command: uv
4. Args: run --directory /absolute/path/to/baidu-baike/server python -m baidu_baike_mcp
5. Env: PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8, PYTHONUTF8=1
6. Save and refresh tools

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Other MCP apps / custom agents

If the app accepts an MCP JSON config, merge:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "baidu-baike": { "...shared block..." }
  }
}

If it only has UI fields, map:

Field	Value
Command	uv
Arguments	run --directory /absolute/path/to/baidu-baike/server python -m baidu_baike_mcp
Transport	stdio

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Docker (any host that can run a container over stdio)

cd server
docker build -t baidu-baike-mcp .
docker run -i --rm baidu-baike-mcp

In the app config, set command/args to that docker run -i --rm baidu-baike-mcp invocation instead of uv.

Cloud/proxy notes: server/AGENT_SETUP.md.

3. Suggested agent workflow

1. Call baike_search to disambiguate multi-sense titles
2. Call get_baike_entry with the chosen lemma (and lemma_id when available)
3. Quote Chinese content verbatim; keep fallback source attribution if present

License

MIT © Nishant Dilip Sharma