About Bangla News MCP Server
Bangla News MCP Server retrieves Bangladeshi news in Bengali and returns it in a structured format. It is intended to provide news context to LLMs and news aggregation platforms.
Key features
- 01Fetch latest Bengali news headlines
- 02Retrieve headlines by query
- 03Structured news results
Use cases
- 01Provide Bengali news context to an LLM
- 02Find headlines matching a user query
MCP support
Exposes tools to fetch the latest Bangla news headlines and search headlines by query for MCP clients.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEBangla News MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that retrieves Bangla news to provide context to LLMs.
📖 Description
A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server delivering bangladeshi news written in bengali language in a structured format. Designed for seamless integration with LLM models and news aggregation platforms. Fast, scalable, and optimized for bengali language processing.
🔬 Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install bangla-news-mcp for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @hurutta/bangla-news-mcp --client claude
Using a virtual environment
# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# Install the package
pip install git+https://github.com/hurutta/bangla-news-mcp.git
Build from Source
# Create a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/hurutta/bangla-news-mcp
cd bangla-news-mcp
# Install in development mode
pip install -e .
🔌 Usage
Configuration for Claude.app
Add to your Claude settings:
{
"mcpServers": {
"bangla_news": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"bangla_news_mcp"
],
"disabled": false,
"autoApprove": []
}
}
}
👆🏼 If you install pip package inside a virtual environment, adjust the command and args.
🛠️ Available Tools
Fetch latest bangla news headlines
fetch_latest_news_headlines: Returns list of latest bengali news of varied category
Fetch bangla news by query
fetch_news_headlines_by_query: Returns list of bengali news queried by the user
🔌 For development
Activate the virtual environment where the package is installed, and run -
source venv/bin/activate
python -m bangla_news_mcp
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