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A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants like Claude to retrieve and interpret real-time weather data. Requires an API key from WeatherAPI (https://www.weatherapi.com/my/) set via the WEATHER_API_KEY environment variable.
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Weather API MCP Server
ezh0v
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A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants like Claude to retrieve and parse real-time weather data. Requires setting the WeatherAPI key via the environment variable WEATHER_API_KEY (https://www.weatherapi.com/my/).
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🔥 Trends Hub
baranwang
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A one-stop aggregation service for trending topics across the web based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supports over 20 high-quality data sources with real-time updates. Environment variables can be used to customize returned fields and add custom RSS feeds.
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HotNews MCP Server
wopal-cn
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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides real-time hot trending topics from major Chinese social platforms and news sites. Uses the external API service api.vvhan.com for fetching hot topics data.
get_story_info Fetching comments associated with a story
search_stories Searching for stories by query
get_user_info Fetching user info
Example Usage
Use prompts like the following:
User: Get the top stories of today
Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI
User: What does the details of the story today that talks about the future of AI
Output: Uses `get_story_info` tool based on the results of the previous tool
User: What has the user `pg` been up to?
Output: Uses `get_user_info` tool and returns a summary of the user's activity
User: What does hackernews say about careers in AI?
Output: Uses `search_stories` tool and returns a summary of the comments
A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:
User: What are the top stories of today?
Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI
User: Can you use the puppeteer tool to read the article about <AI> and also use the hackernews tool to view the comments and give me a summary of what the main comments are about the article?
Output: Uses puppeteer tool to read the article about AI and then uses the `get_story_info` hn tool to get the comments and returns a summary of the comments
Quickstart
Installing via Smithery
To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-hn --client claude
Claude Desktop:
Update the following:
On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json