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MCP Feed Reader

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RSS/Atom feed reader MCP server with SQLite backend

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Install

Add this to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json; Cursor: .cursor/mcp.json; VS Code and others use the same "mcpServers" shape).

PYPI package mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools
Claude Code 
claude mcp add mcp-feed-reader -- uvx mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools==0.1.2
JSON configuration (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "mcp-feed-reader": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools==0.1.2"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Documentation

From the project's README on GitHub, refreshed weekly. Links open on GitHub.

Contents
  1. mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools
  2. Installation
  3. Configuration
  4. Tools (17)
  5. Background Fetching
  6. License

mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools

Secure MCP server for RSS/Atom feed reading with SQLite backend.

Installation

uvx mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools
pip
pip install mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools
Container
podman run -v feedreader-data:/data quay.io/crunchtools/mcp-feed-reader

Configuration

VariableDefaultDescription
FEED_READER_DB~/.local/share/mcp-feed-reader/feeds.dbSQLite database path
HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY / NO_PROXY(none)Standard httpx proxy variables, honoured for every feed fetch. Useful when a publisher rate-limits your egress IP — Reddit returns 429 to datacentre ranges regardless of User-Agent

Tools (17)

Feed Management
  • add_feed_tool — Add an RSS/Atom feed by URL
  • list_feeds_tool — List all feeds with unread counts
  • get_feed_tool — Get feed details
  • delete_feed_tool — Remove a feed
  • refresh_feeds_tool — Crawl feed sources for new content (slow, prefer systemd timer)
Entry Management
  • list_entries_tool — List entries (filterable, paginated)
  • read_entry_tool — Read full entry content (auto-marks read)
  • mark_read_tool — Mark entries as read
  • mark_unread_tool — Mark entry as unread
  • search_entries_tool — Full-text search (FTS5)
Category Management
  • list_categories_tool — List categories with counts
  • create_category_tool — Create category
  • rename_category_tool — Rename category
  • delete_category_tool — Delete category
Import/Export
  • import_opml_tool — Import from OPML file
  • export_opml_tool — Export as OPML
  • get_stats_tool — Dashboard stats

Background Fetching

Nothing in the server crawls on its own. list_entries_tool and friends read a cache; if no one calls --fetch, that cache goes stale and every reader sees an empty feed with no error anywhere. A deployment without a crawl trigger is a broken deployment — this bit the daily briefing, which reported "no news" for days while all 61 feeds sat unfetched.

# Fetch all feeds via CLI
mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools --fetch

deploy/ ships the two units used in production. Copy them to /etc/systemd/system/, adjust the container name in the service if yours differs, then:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now mcp-feeds-refresh.timer

The service runs --fetch inside the running container (podman exec), so the database keeps the SELinux category of the process that owns it. Do not bind-mount the data directory into a second container with :Z to run the crawl — that relabels the volume and locks the live server out.

The timer fires hourly, plus once at 05:45. That second entry is not redundant: consumers window entries on publication time, so an entry published between the last crawl and a 06:00 report is missing from that report and already older than the next day's window start — it is lost for good. Any consumer on a fixed schedule wants a crawl shortly before it.

Feeds are fetched conditionally (ETag / If-Modified-Since). A rate limit, gateway 5xx, or dropped connection is retried with exponential backoff, up to three attempts in all, before the feed is recorded as failed.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later

Frequently asked questions

What is MCP Feed Reader?

RSS/Atom feed reader MCP server with SQLite backend

How do I install MCP Feed Reader?

It runs on your machine. In Claude Code: claude mcp add mcp-feed-reader -- uvx mcp-feed-reader-crunchtools==0.1.2. For other clients, paste the JSON configuration from this page into their MCP settings.

Does MCP Feed Reader need an API key?

Its registry entry lists no required key or secret. Some features may still need an account with the service it connects to.

Is MCP Feed Reader open source?

Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Who maintains MCP Feed Reader?

It is published by crunchtools. AI.tn lists it but does not maintain or endorse it.

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