## 🌎 Explorium MCP Server
Explorium MCP server is a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) server for interacting with the [Explorium API](https://developers.explorium.ai/reference/overview).
### Obtain an Explorium API key
Follow the instructions in the [Explorium API documentation](https://developers.explorium.ai/reference/getting_your_api_key) to obtain an API key.
Your API key will be used to authenticate your requests to the Explorium API through the MCP server.
### Usage with Claude Desktop
To use the MCP server with Claude Desktop, add the following to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"Explorium": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "explorium_mcp_server"],
"env": {
"EXPLORIUM_API_KEY": "MY_API_KEY"
}
}
}
}
```
Replace `MY_API_KEY` with your actual Explorium API key.
Replace `python` with the path to your Python executable (such as `python3`).