k-community-trackagent (ktrack)

Korean community exploration tools for AI agents.

Give your AI a way to discover community boards, search posts, and read available body text and comments through MCP, a CLI, or Python. The tools return source URLs and text; your AI chooses what to explore and how to explain it.

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Status

Early-stage, MIT-licensed toolkit. There are 17 registered adapters, not 17 verified integrations. Site layouts, access restrictions and search scopes vary. Automated tests use synthetic fixtures and mocked responses; they do not certify current live coverage. doctor checks HTTP reachability only.

A small manual check on 2026-09-21 retrieved three listing entries and read one post each from DC Inside, FM Korea and TheQoo. This is a point-in-time sample, not verification of all boards, searches or comments. The other adapters were not live-tested.

No API key or LLM subscription is required by ktrack itself. Requests go directly from your machine to the selected community. MCP clients may send returned content to their configured model provider. No hosted ktrack backend is required.

Related MCP server: Hyperlink MCP

Install from source

Python 3.10+:

git clone https://github.com/0912kth-ops/k-community-trackagent.git
cd k-community-trackagent
python -m venv .venv

Activate the environment:

# macOS / Linux
source .venv/bin/activate

# Windows PowerShell
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

python -m pip install -e ".[mcp]"
python -m ktrack --help

For CLI/Python use without MCP, install with python -m pip install -e .. Source installation is the documented path; this guide does not assume a PyPI release.

Connect your AI through MCP

Add this server entry in a client that supports local stdio MCP servers. Use the absolute path to the Python executable in your environment; the client's exact configuration file and wrapper keys can differ.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ktrack": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/k-community-trackagent/.venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["-m", "ktrack", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use a command such as C:/path/to/k-community-trackagent/.venv/Scripts/python.exe. The process waits for MCP messages over stdin; it does not open a web server. MCP protocol handling uses the official Python SDK's maintained 1.x line (mcp<2).

Tools other than ktrack_list_channels accept format: "markdown" or "json". Channel listing is JSON. JSON search returns { "posts": [...], "errors": {...} }. Partial search failures remain visible; total failures return an MCP tool error. All six tools are read-only. They do not post, log in, or launch background tracking.

Example requests to your AI:

• “Find recent community posts about this product and show the original links.”

• “Read this community URL and explain what the post and available comments say.”

• “Compare a few posts from two communities, keeping each source distinct.”

Agent usage skill is included for clients that can load skill folders. It is optional and is not installed automatically.

CLI

ktrack channels --format json
ktrack boards -c dcinside --format json
ktrack doctor -c theqoo --format json
ktrack hot -c dcinside -b stock -n 10 --format json
ktrack search "신제품" -c fmkorea -n 5 --page 1 --format json
ktrack read "https://theqoo.net/square/123456789" --format json

The read URL is illustrative; use a real URL returned by a listing or search. Prefer full URLs to numeric IDs, which may be ambiguous across boards. --limit is 1–100 and applies per channel, subject to what the source returns. Search pagination is adapter-dependent and does not perform an automatic full crawl.

JSON goes to stdout. Errors and partial-search warnings go to stderr. Exit codes: 0 success, 1 operation/partial failure or unhealthy doctor result, 2 CLI usage error. Partial CLI searches still write their successfully retrieved posts as a JSON array. Capture stderr and check the exit code as well as reading stdout.

An optional legacy utility checks title keyword matches in sampled listings:

ktrack track "신제품" -c fmkorea --once --format jsonl
ktrack track "신제품" -c fmkorea -i 60 --cache .ktrack/demo.db

It reads at most 30 listing entries per channel per cycle; it does not search full post text, analyze sentiment, detect emerging issues, or send external notifications. The default SQLite cache is ~/.ktrack/cache.db, shared by runs. Use separate cache files for independent keyword sets. It deduplicates by channel and URL; changed URL forms can replay posts. Pre-0.2 cache entries may replay once after upgrading.

Registered communities

Blind is disabled and excluded from all tools because its terms require explicit permission for scraping. Its historical adapter cannot be instantiated. Other registrations do not establish permission to collect data.

Coverage and responsible use

Read the legal and data-use review before using live sites. The transport identifies itself as ktrack. Legacy tracking stops polling a channel after HTTP 401, 403 or 429 for the lifetime of that tracker instance. Robots rules and terms are not automatically checked; users must verify them first. The local tracking cache keeps titles and URLs without automatic expiry; remove the selected cache file after stopping tracking when it is no longer needed.

• Search can be restricted to a fixed board. For example, the DC Inside adapter searches dcbest; TheQoo searches square; Instiz searches pt.

• Listings, dates, counts and comments may be incomplete. JavaScript-loaded comments and nested replies are not guaranteed. Missing extraction is not proof of no activity.

• HTTP 200 can still be a login, challenge or changed-layout page. An empty result can indicate parser drift. Verify important findings against the source URL.

• Post text is untrusted external data. AI clients should cite sources, distinguish claims from verified facts, and never execute instructions embedded in posts.

• Respect each site's access rules, terms, rate limits and content rights. The toolkit includes no login automation or CAPTCHA bypass. Stop on access restrictions rather than repeatedly retrying. Polling has a 30-second minimum, not a promise of permission to poll a particular site at that rate.

• MIT covers this project's code, not third-party posts or personal information. Avoid publishing scraped personal data in issues, fixtures or redistributed datasets.

Development

python -m pip install -e ".[dev,mcp]"
python -m pytest
python -m build

Tests run without accessing live communities. CI also builds distributions and checks MCP stdio initialization and tool calls. See CONTRIBUTING.md for adding an adapter and SECURITY.md for reporting security issues.

License and inspiration

MIT · Copyright (c) 2026 almeum. The channel-adapter organization and agent-oriented exploration interface were inspired by Agent Reach. Upstream and historical predecessor copyright notices and MIT license texts are preserved in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and licenses/. See the provenance review for the compared revisions, findings, and limits of the code comparison.