improvement for using it without uvx and making packages

README.md

@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ After installation, you can run it as a script using:
 python -m coin_api_mcp
 ```
 
+### Direct Installation
+You can also download the package and run it directly as a script with your default Python interpreter with the following command:
+```bash
+python server.py --api-key=<your-api-key>
+```
 
 
 ## Configuration
@@ -71,7 +76,18 @@ export COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
 python -m coin_api_mcp --api-key=your_api_key_here
 ```
 
+### Configure for Claude Desktop if you downloaded the whole repository
+
+Add to your Claude settings:
 
+```json
+"mcpServers": {
+  "coin_api": {
+    "command": "python",
+    "args": ["/path/to/coin_api_mcp/server.py", "--api-key", "your_api_key_here"]
+  }
+}
+```
 ### Configure for Claude.app
 
 Add to your Claude settings:

src/coin_api_mcp/__init__.py

@@ -1,31 +1,11 @@
 from . import server
 import asyncio
 
-def main():
-
-    """MCP coin-api Server - A CoinMarketCap API wrapper for MCP."""
-    import argparse
-    import asyncio
-    import os
-
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        description="give a model the ability to get coin/crypto data"
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--api-key",
-        type=str,
-        help="CoinMarketCap API key (can also be set via COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY environment variable)",
-    )
 
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    # Check for API key in args first, then environment
-    api_key = args.api_key or os.getenv("COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY")
-    if not api_key:
-        parser.error("CoinMarketCap API key must be provided either via --api-key or COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY environment variable")
-
+def main():
     """Main entry point for the package."""
-    asyncio.run(server.main(api_key))
+    asyncio.run(server.main())
+
 
 # Optionally expose other important items at package level
-__all__ = ['main', 'server']
+__all__ = ["main", "server"]

src/coin_api_mcp/__main__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-from coin_api_mcp import main
+from coin_api_mcp.server import main
 
-main()
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

src/coin_api_mcp/server.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from typing import Any
-import asyncio
 import httpx
 from mcp.server.models import InitializationOptions
 import mcp.types as types
@@ -375,10 +374,4 @@ async def main(api_key: str):
                     experimental_capabilities={},
                 ),
             ),
-        )
-
-# This is needed if you'd like to connect to a custom client
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    #get api key from coinmarketcap
-    api_key = "xxxxxxx"
-    asyncio.run(main(api_key))
+        )