German Newsfeed MCP Server

German Newsfeed MCP Server

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Disclaimer: This is a private, unofficial project. It is not an ARD

product and is neither operated nor endorsed by ARD,

ARD-aktuell, or NDR. It is developed independently of the author's

professional employment. "ARD" and "tagesschau" are trademarks of their

respective owners and are named here solely to describe the API being

accessed.

This project merely connects the public API to an MCP-capable AI

assistant. ARD-aktuell is responsible for the API itself, its

operation, and its content; this project cannot provide information

on any of those. Please raise any concerns about this project, in

particular from rights holders, as a

GitHub issue.

Substantiated concerns will be addressed promptly.

In thirty seconds

This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server connects your AI assistant (Claude Desktop and others) to the public news API of tagesschau.de: current headlines, category and regional news, and full-text search, locally via stdio, no API key required.

Example: asked "Was sind die aktuellen Schlagzeilen?", the assistant answers with the current top stories from tagesschau.de, each with title, date, summary, and a link to the article.

Language:

• 🇩🇪 Deutsch
• 🇬🇧 English

Table of Contents

1. What is this?
2. Data Source and Terms of Use
3. Features
4. Project Structure
5. Quick Start Local (Claude Desktop)
6. Remote / Docker Deployment
7. Configuration Reference
8. Available Tools
9. Available Resources
10. Development Guide
11. Running the Tests
12. Makefile Reference

What is this?

This MCP server connects the public news API of tagesschau.de to your AI assistant (Claude, Open Claw, etc.).

Once connected, your AI can answer questions like:

• "Was sind die aktuellen Schlagzeilen?"
• "Zeig mir die neuesten Wirtschaftsnachrichten."
• "Suche nach Artikeln über Ukraine."
• "Welche Regionalnachrichten gibt es aus Bayern?"

For details on the API and its terms, see Data Source and Terms of Use. No API key required.

Data Source and Terms of Use

This server calls the publicly accessible endpoint www.tagesschau.de/api2u/, operated by ARD-aktuell. The delivered content originates from the ARD broadcasters, remains subject to their rights and to the terms of use of tagesschau.de: https://www.tagesschau.de/nutzungsbedingungen/

The API is not officially documented. Community documentation is available at bund.dev (https://tagesschau.api.bund.dev). bund.dev is a civil-society documentation project, neither the operator of the API nor a rights holder of the content. Its documentation served as a reference for this project but does not grant any usage rights.

Applicable limits: at most 60 requests per hour, and no republication of the content except for offerings under a CC licence (https://tagesschau.de/creativecommons). Compliance is the responsibility of whoever operates a given instance.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.