A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching stories from Hacker News. This server parses the HTML content from news.ycombinator.com and provides structured data for different types of stories (top, new, ask, show, jobs).
For VSCode Claude extension:
The server provides a tool called get_stories that can be used to fetch stories from Hacker News.
Parameters:
type (string): Type of stories to fetchlimit (number): Number of stories to returnExample usage:
Sample output:
To use this MCP server with Claude, you'll need to:
For the Claude desktop app, add the server configuration to:
For the VSCode Claude extension, add to:
Once configured, you can interact with Claude using natural language to fetch Hacker News stories. Examples:
Claude will automatically use the appropriate parameters to fetch the stories you want.
Each story object contains:
title (string): The story titleurl (string, optional): URL of the story (may be internal HN URL for text posts)points (number): Number of upvotesauthor (string): Username of the postertime (string): Timestamp of when the story was postedcommentCount (number): Number of commentsrank (number): Position in the listThe server is built using:
To modify the server:
src/index.tsThe server includes robust error handling for:
Errors are returned with appropriate error codes and descriptive messages.
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
MIT License - feel free to use this in your own projects.
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remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
Parses the HTML content from news.ycombinator.com (Hacker News) and provides structured data for different types of stories (top, new, ask, show, jobs).