Progress Monitoring - Fastmcp

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Use this when you need to track progress of long-running operations.

MCP servers can report progress during operations. The client receives these updates through a progress handler.

Progress Handler

Set a handler when creating the client:

python

from fastmcp import Client

async def progress_handler(
    progress: float,
    total: float | None,
    message: str | None
) -> None:
    if total is not None:
        percentage = (progress / total) * 100
        print(f"Progress: {percentage:.1f}% - {message or ''}")
    else:
        print(f"Progress: {progress} - {message or ''}")

client = Client(
    "my_mcp_server.py",
    progress_handler=progress_handler
)

The handler receives three parameters:

<Card icon="code" title="Handler Parameters"> <ResponseField name="progress" type="float"> Current progress value </ResponseField> <ResponseField name="total" type="float | None"> Expected total value (may be None if unknown) </ResponseField> <ResponseField name="message" type="str | None"> Optional status message </ResponseField> </Card>

Per-Call Handler

Override the client-level handler for specific tool calls:

python

async with client:
    result = await client.call_tool(
        "long_running_task",
        {"param": "value"},
        progress_handler=my_progress_handler
    )