China News Feed MCP server

china-news-feed-mcp

A TypeScript MCP server for China news, platform hot lists, and deletion-watch flags, wrapping the China News Feed Apify actor (CeTIPfpcWcDrEhrPV). Uses Node.js 20 native fetch and MCP over stdio.

Actor usage costs $8 per 1,000 dataset rows, billed to your own Apify account. Supply your API token through APIFY_TOKEN. Each call starts an actor run with emitOnlyNew: false, snapshotCount: 1, and maxItems as the billed-row cap. A default 50-row call costs up to $0.40 at this row price.

Supported platforms: Weibo 微博 (weibo), Baidu 百度 (baidu), Zhihu 知乎 (zhihu), Toutiao 今日头条 (toutiao), Douyin 抖音 (douyin), Bilibili 哔哩哔哩 (bilibili), Kuaishou 快手 (kuaishou).

News sourceTypes accepts the actor's exact values: State media, Party-gov, Commercial platform, Overseas independent, Dissident, Censorship tracker. Omitting sources or source types uses actor defaults; an empty source-type array selects no news types. An empty platform array selects no hot lists.

language controls output projection: en includes headlineen, zh includes headlineoriginal, and both includes both. Missing translations are omitted. The actor has no language or query input. query filters both headlines locally, case-insensitively, after fetching. Deletion filtering also happens locally, so the returned count can be smaller than the fetched/billed row count. No automatic retries are made.

Claude Desktop and Cursor

Install Node.js 20 or newer and obtain a token from your Apify account. For Claude Desktop, add the following to claudedesktopconfig.json (open it through Settings → Developer → Edit Config). For Cursor, add it to .cursor/mcp.json in your project or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global use. Merge it with existing mcpServers entries, then restart the client.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "china-news-feed": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:Ownly-Network/china-news-feed-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your-apify-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

GitHub installation builds dist/ using the prepare script. Git must also be available for installation from GitHub. Keep your real token in private client configuration or your process environment; never commit it.

For a local build:

git clone https://github.com/Ownly-Network/china-news-feed-mcp.git
cd china-news-feed-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Use this server entry in either client's mcpServers object, replacing the path with your absolute checkout path:

{
  "china-news-feed": {
    "command": "node",
    "args": ["/absolute/path/china-news-feed-mcp/dist/index.js"],
    "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "<your-apify-token>" }
  }
}

For manual startup with APIFY_TOKEN already exported, run npm start. The server reserves stdout for MCP messages. Missing tokens produce a clear tool error; tokens and raw upstream errors are never logged. The fetch timeout is 300 seconds; configure a longer tool timeout in your client if supported. A timed-out request may leave an actor run active in Apify.

Docker

docker build -t china-news-feed-mcp .

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.