horseracingnews

mchow01/horseracingnews

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This document provides a structured overview of setting up an MCP server to fetch content from Thoroughbred Daily News's RSS feed using the 'uv' tool and integrating it with Claude Desktop.

Tools

  1. get_horse_racing_news

    Fetches the latest horse racing news from the RSS feed.

Overview

MCP server to get content from thoroughbreddailynews.com's RSS feed

Requirements

Getting Started

Part 1: Running MCP Server

  1. Clone this repository
  2. cd horseracingnews
  3. Run uv run horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py and keep running.

Part 2: Update Claude Desktop Configuration (assuming macOS)

  1. Run cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude
  2. Use your favorite editor and open up claude_desktop_config.json (e.g., vim claude_desktop_config.json)
  3. Assuming you never added an MCP server to the configuration file before, add:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "horseracing": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/horseracingnews",
        "run",
        "horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Make sure to restart Claude Desktop

Source

Prompts Used

I was informed of Thoroughbred Daily News yesterday. They provide an RSS feed at https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/feed/.  Can you write a Python program that:

Loads the feed
Parse the XML
For each story, show the title, content, and link

Excellent, thanks so much! Now, can you turn it into an MCP server using FastMCP? Expose one method for @mcp.tool() named get_horse_racing_news.