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⚡ How to Add ANY MCP Server to Claude Desktop | Basic Tutorial

Name: ⚡ How to Add ANY MCP Server to Claude Desktop | Basic Tutorial
Uploaded: 2025-06-15T10:17:41Z
Duration: 5 min 30 s
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0:02just shifted to my Mac. I was on
0:05So, please bear with me if you if
0:07cannot look at you in the c. Um, all
0:10Let's pick a use case, right? So,
0:12I'll let me go from basic so that I
0:15this can be helpful and when you
0:16back, you can also start playing and
0:18around with this. Um, I'll show
0:20what I have done, right? Uh, what do
0:22mean by MCP in the first place, right?
0:23talked so much about it. Now if you
0:25to your cloud desktop you can see
0:27there are multiple tools right
0:30are built-in tools like drive
0:31gmail search calendar search uh
0:34search these are the pre-built tools
0:36come along with the cloud desktop
0:38are the additional superpowers
0:40I have given right I've connected
0:41to slack mcp server um this uh came
0:44zapier very easy to do um I'll
0:47show you how to do it this is a
0:49drive writer what I figured out
0:51when I connected the Google drive
0:53it only searches because it has
0:55read only permission. It cannot
0:56back to that drive. So I do a lot
0:58research where I want these documents
1:00be saved somewhere and that's where
1:03is a custom um server that I have
1:05for myself where it can now go and
1:07my Google sheets, update my
1:09docs based on analysis that I
1:10done or whatever discussions I have
1:13cloud. There is a superbase again
1:14this is something that that I
1:16like superbase server pre MCP
1:19like this I just connected to
1:21particular server. There is bride
1:24Brite data is used for scraping
1:25on internet. Netly is more
1:28oriented to deploy your
1:30So leave it for now. Actors MCP
1:33is something called appi which
1:34me uh publish content onto LinkedIn
1:37pull content from LinkedIn and
1:39and Instagram. There are
1:41actors um with which you can
1:44your social media automatically.
1:46So these are some and then
1:48obviously five for all. How can
1:50miss this? Right? This is one of the
1:51platforms out there to actually
1:54data from any website. It does a
1:56very fantastic job in terms of
1:58content out of any any website.
2:00is a snapshot of what I've done
2:01I have connected which is uh
2:03displayed to you right now. Um I
2:06show you very simple MCP server
2:08I can connect um I how I connected
2:11Slack. Let me show setting. I'll go
2:14integrations.
2:16So these are all the integrations
2:18have. I can just do add integration.
2:21there's an integration name and
2:22URL that it asks for. Let me
2:25you what I have done. Let me say
2:29MCP server. This is a quick
2:32for you to start testing your uh
2:34MCP server. Get started. Okay. I
2:38just do new MCP server. It asks me
2:41uh select a client. Um in this case I
2:44cloud MCP server. Now once I do
2:49let me log from some other page so
2:51I can show you how this is done.
2:54new incognto window. Okay continue
2:57Google. I'm on this page now. So I
3:00selected create a new MCP
3:02In this case I'm as you can see
3:05these are your hosts right. Um you
3:07use this for most of the people
3:09use it from cloud desktop but if
3:11want you can also use it from white
3:12uh platforms like cursor bins um
3:16other things. I'll just select
3:17I'll just name it and I'll say
3:20cloud MCP server. Now it'll ask
3:23okay what are the tools you want to
3:24it access to? I'll select one of
3:26tools. In this case a lot of tools
3:28See these are all the
3:30that I can connect to. I
3:31to connect to Slack. It gives me
3:33this information. What are the tools
3:34within Slack? Take action.
3:36I say connect, it'll ask me to
3:39with Slack. And what it'll give
3:41is it'll give me a URL. After
3:43you have to take that URL,
3:45back to your cloud desktop.
3:48name is the name that you
3:49given in the beginning. You input
3:51name, you input the integration URL,
3:53you're done. Your Slack MCP server
3:56set up, right? It's as simple as it
3:58Then how did I set up superbase? How
4:00I set up right data? If you let's
4:02go to these are very very uh typical
4:05in all these companies. So if you
4:08to let's say superbase or let's say
4:14crawl mcp server connect to any
4:17using firecrawl again don't get
4:20uh this is very simple you just
4:23whatever this is as I told you when
4:25connect to an MCP a database or an
4:27they should know who you are
4:29they'll ask you for something called
4:31API key you can easily download from
4:33you log in you can easily download
4:35API key you enter some of these
4:37and there is something
4:39as config file right where you go
4:42update that particular information
4:44typically a config file looks like
4:46as you can see I've added all my
4:48servers here there is Google drive
4:51which is my custom MCP server
4:53is superbase there is netifi there
4:56firecraw you just copy paste over
4:58and you are done right that is how
5:00set up your MCP servers now once you
5:02up and I think uh as I told it's
5:05in the evolving stage
5:07some of these uh may seem a bit
5:10for you right now. Uh but
5:12all the difficult part is right
5:14you have done all that you are set
5:16go. Uh once you do everything
5:18you can see that all these are
5:20these are available. You can enable
5:22disable them as you want right I can
5:24I can enable all these things.
5:26let's do some crazy thing, right?

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