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The Verge News MCP Server

The Verge News MCP Server

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github.com/manimohansSearch3Updated 40w ago
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About The Verge News MCP Server

The Verge News MCP Server provides access to The Verge RSS news for people who want to retrieve recent stories or search by keyword. Its tools cover daily news, a random weekly selection, and keyword searches.

Key features

  1. 01Fetch news from the last 24 hours
  2. 02Select random news from the past week
  3. 03Search articles by keyword and date range

Use cases

  1. 01Review The Verge's latest news
  2. 02Get a varied selection of weekly stories
  3. 03Find coverage matching a keyword

MCP support

It exposes tools for retrieving and searching The Verge RSS articles to MCP clients, including Claude for Desktop.

Configuration

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

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Tools

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Details

From the project README

The Verge News MCP Server

An MCP server that provides tools to fetch and search news from The Verge's RSS feed.

The Verge News Server MCP server

Features

  • Fetch today's news from The Verge
  • Fetch a random selection of news from The Verge's past week
  • Search for news articles by keyword

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/manimohans/verge-news-mcp.git
cd verge-news-mcp

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

Usage

Running the server
npm start
Using with Claude for Desktop

  1. Install Claude for Desktop

  2. Open your Claude for Desktop App configuration at:

    • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
    • Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

  3. Add the following configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "verge-news": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/verge-news-mcp/build/index.js"]
    }
  }
}
  1. Restart Claude for Desktop
Available Tools
get-daily-news

Fetches the latest news articles from The Verge published in the last 24 hours.

Example query: "What's in the news today from The Verge?"

get-weekly-news

Fetches news articles from The Verge published in the last 7 days.

Example query: "Show me The Verge's news from the past week."

Note: This tool randomly selects 10 news items from the past week, providing variety each time it's used.

search-news

Searches for news articles containing a specific keyword.

Parameters:

  • keyword: The term to search for
  • days (optional): Number of days to look back (default: 30)

Example query: "Find news articles about AI from The Verge."

Development

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

License

ISC

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