Article Scraper MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that fetches article data from URLs using newspaper3k.

Features

• Extract article title, text, author, and publication date

• Robust error handling and URL validation

• Structured data output

• Built with FastMCP for easy integration

Related MCP server: Newsnow MCP Server

Installation

Install directly from PyPI:

uvx article-scraper-mcp

Usage

Add to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "article-scraper": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["article-scraper-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

API

fetch_article(url: str) -> dict[str, Any]

Fetches and parses a news article from the given URL.

Parameters:

• url: The URL of the news article to fetch

Returns: A dictionary containing:

• title: Article title

• text: Article content text

• author: Author name(s) (may be None)

• date: Publication date in ISO format (may be None)

Raises:

• ValueError: If URL is invalid or article cannot be parsed

• requests.RequestException: If HTTP request fails

Requirements

• Python 3.11+

• newspaper3k

• requests

• loguru

• mcp[cli]

License

MIT