boring-news-mcp

boring-news-mcp

3.1

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Boring News MCP Server is a Python server library designed to interact with the Boring News API using a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server like Claude Desktop.

Boring News MCP Server

A Python server library for interacting with the Boring News API from a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server like Claude Desktop. The website : boring-news.fr

Features

four actions :

  • Fetch articles by date, category, or tags

  • Get articles mentioning specific people

  • Find similar articles based on text content

  • Get article groups and categories

  • Predefined Prompts

    • Daily news (tech and culture focused)
    • Comprehensive daily summaries
    • News highlights
    • Cultural news focus

Quick Start

pip install boring-news-mcp

Exemple of claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    ...      
    "boringnews": {
          "command": "python",
          "args": [
                "-m", 
                "boring_news_mcp"
          ]
      },
    ...
    }
}

API Reference

Articles

  • get_articles_by_date(date: Optional[str], category: Optional[str], tags: Optional[str]) -> str
  • get_articles_by_person(person: str) -> str
  • get_similar_articles(text: str) -> str
  • get_article_groups(date: Optional[str]) -> str
  • get_categories(date: Optional[str]) -> str

News Summaries Prompt

  • daily_news(target_date: str) -> str
  • daily_news_summary(target_date: str) -> str
  • daily_news_highlights(target_date: str) -> str
  • daily_cultural_news(target_date: str) -> str

Requirements

  • Python >= 3.8
  • httpx >= 0.25.0
  • fastmcp >= 0.1.0

License

MIT License

Build

uv run -m buid
uv run -m twine upload dist/*
rm dist/*