Current Affairs Digest MCP Conduit

A Python-based server utility designed for interfacing with the Journalistic Feed Backend via an MCP (Model Context Protocol) environment, such as the Claude Desktop application. The associated web portal is situated at: boring-news.fr

Key Capabilities

Four distinct operational routines: - Retrieve news items indexed by publication date, subject grouping, or specific nomenclature tags - Query for journalistic pieces referencing particular individuals or entities - Ascertain articles exhibiting semantic similarity to a provided text sample - Catalog available article collections and thematic classifications

• Integrated Synthesis Directives
• Day-by-day digest (emphasizing technological advancements and cultural movements)
• Thorough daily editorial synopsis
• Essential news highlights package
• Focused compilation on societal and cultural narratives

Initial Setup

pip install boring-news-mcp

Example Configuration for Claude Desktop

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

Functional Interface Specification

Article Retrieval Endpoints

• 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

Synthesis Prompts

• 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

Dependencies

• Python runtime version >= 3.8
• httpx library version >= 0.25.0
• fastmcp framework version >= 0.1.0

Licensing

Per the MIT License terms

Deployment

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

WIKIPEDIA: The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public. These sources include news agencies, newspapers, news magazines, news channels etc.

== History == Some of the first news circulations occurred in Renaissance Europe. These handwritten newsletters, circulated among merchants, contained news about wars, economic conditions, and social customs. Newsletters were very scarce and no two were the same as they were all hand written, until the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440. With movable type and ink, newspapers were now able to be mass produced for cheap. The first printed news appeared by the late 1400s in German pamphlets, which contained content that was often highly sensationalized. The first newspaper written in English was The Weekly News, published in London in 1621. Several papers followed in the 1640s and 1650s. In 1690, the first American newspaper was published by Richard Pierce and Benjamin Harris in Boston. However, it did not have permission from the government to be published and was immediately suppressed.

=== In the United States ===

In 1729, Benjamin Franklin began writing a new form of newspaper that was more satirical and involved in civic affairs than previously seen. In 1735, John Peter Zenger was accused of seditious libel by the governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was found not guilty, largely in part to his attorney Andrew Hamilton. Hamilton later wrote a paper in which he argued that newspapers should be free to criticize the government as long as it was true. Later, with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, freedom of the press would be guaranteed by the First Amendment. In the 1830s, newspapers started seeking commercial success and turned toward reportage, beginning with the New York Sun in 1833. Advancements in technology made it cheaper to print newspapers and "penny papers" emerged. These issues sought out more entertaining daily news like murder and adventure, rather than politics. Penny papers attempted to reach a larger audience due to the cheap prices. By the end of the century, modern aspects of newspapers such as banner headlines, extensive use of illustrations, "funny pages," and expanded coverage of organized sporting events began to appear. Media consolidation emerged with many independent newspapers becoming part of "chains". The early 1900s saw Progressive Era journalists using a new style of investigative journalism that revealed the corrupt practices of government officials. These exposing articles became featured in many newspapers and magazines. Those who wrote them were labeled as "muckrakers." They became very influential and were a vital force in the Progressive reform movement. However, after 1912, muckraking declined. The public began to think the exposés were sensationalized, but they did make a great impact on future policies. The early 1920s, radios became accessible and allowed large