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/*