Moodle Study MCP

An MCP server that lets Claude read your ETH Moodle courses so it can plan your exam prep. Ask Claude things like:

"For Control Systems II, exam in 12 days — how many lectures, problem sets, quizzes and practice exams do I have, and what should I actually do?"

The server fetches, counts, and categorizes your course content. Claude does the reasoning. Works for any Moodle site (defaults to ETH; set MOODLE_URL for others).

What it gives Claude

Related MCP server: mcp-moodle

Setup (ETH students)

Requires Python 3.10+.

git clone <this-repo> && cd Moodle-MCP
pip install -e .

1. Get your token (once)

ETH uses SSO, so you need a Moodle web-service token (a 32-character hex string). The token is stored in your OS keyring (never in a file, never in git) and is long-lived.

python -m moodle_mcp auth

This opens a browser; log in with SSO. At the end Moodle tries to hand the token back via a moodlemobile://token=... redirect. Since no app is registered for the moodlemobile:// scheme, your browser shows an error — "address invalid" (or "Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid"). That's expected. You just need to fish the token=... value out of that failed redirect and paste it at the prompt.

Most browsers (Safari and Chrome included) hide the failed URL, so grab it from DevTools instead:

• Safari — enable Settings → Advanced → "Show features for web developers", then Develop → Show Web Inspector (⌥⌘I) → Network tab. Run the login, click the launch.php entry → Response, and search for moodlemobile://token=. Copy that whole value.

• Chrome / Edge — Ctrl/⌘+Shift+I → Network tab → run the login → open the launch.php response and find token=.

Paste that value at the Paste the moodlemobile://token=... value here: prompt (the tool decodes it for you).

Non-ETH Moodle sites: many expose the token directly under your profile → Preferences → Security keys (<your-moodle>/user/managetoken.php), listed as "Moodle mobile web service". If it's there, skip the browser dance: python -m moodle_mcp auth --token <token>. Note: the RSS token on that page is not the right one, and ETH does not list the mobile token there.

Verify:

python -m moodle_mcp doctor

2. Register with Claude Code

claude mcp add moodle -- python -m moodle_mcp serve

Then in Claude: "List my Moodle courses", or "Give me a study overview of Fluid Dynamics."

Other universities

export MOODLE_URL="https://moodle.your-uni.example"
python -m moodle_mcp auth

The classifier keywords (taxonomy.yaml) are tuned for German + English ETH naming. Add your own patterns there if your course names differ.

Privacy & security

• Your token is a password to your Moodle account. It lives only in your OS keyring. .gitignore excludes the cache and any token files.

• The local cache (~/.moodle-mcp/) holds copyrighted course material — it stays on your machine.

• Uses only Moodle's sanctioned mobile web-service API. No scraping.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest