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Hyperact's BBC News MCP Server Demo

Hyperact's BBC News MCP Server Demo

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About Hyperact's BBC News MCP Server Demo

This local demo server uses FastMCP and Feedparser to make the latest BBC News articles available in Claude Desktop. It accompanies a Hyperact blog post about MCP in API product strategy.

Key features

  1. 01Fetches current BBC News articles
  2. 02Uses FastMCP and Feedparser
  3. 03Runs locally with Claude Desktop

Use cases

  1. 01Making BBC headlines available in Claude Desktop
  2. 02Demonstrating MCP for API product strategy

MCP support

The local MCP server exposes the latest BBC News articles to Claude Desktop.

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Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

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Details

From the project README

Hyperact's BBC News MCP Server Demo

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An example MCP Server running locally, utilising FastMCP and Feedparser to expose the latest live BBC News articles into Claude Desktop.

This repository accompanies the Hyperact blog post Should I adopt MCP as part of my API Product strategy.

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Setting up

Assuming you're on macOS, with Claude Desktop installed and logged in, grab uv via brew:

brew install uv

Make sure you have a modern Python runtime installed, pinned and dependencies gathered:

uv install python 3.12
uv pin python 3.12
uv venv
uv pip install .

Finally, you can install the MCP server into Claude Desktop:

uv run mcp install

Restart Claude Desktop, you can then ask it "What tools do you have access too?" and "Get me a BBC headline.".

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