aria-mcp-news-dr

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes Danish news from DR (Danmarks Radio) to AI assistants via free public RSS feeds. Built for ARIA and shareable with the community.

Fully keyless — DR's RSS feeds are open and require no API key.

Data Source

Related MCP server: News Feed MCP

Install & Run

npx aria-mcp-news-dr

Or install globally:

npm install -g aria-mcp-news-dr
aria-mcp-news-dr

Requires Node.js 20 or later.

Tools

list_feeds

Returns all available DR RSS feed names and their Danish descriptions — both national/topical feeds and regional feeds.

Parameters: None

Returns:

{
  "national": [
    { "name": "senestenyt", "description": "Seneste nyt (latest news)" },
    { "name": "indland",    "description": "Indland (domestic news)" }
  ],
  "regional": [
    { "name": "kbh",        "description": "DR København (Copenhagen region)" }
  ],
  "totalFeeds": 16
}

get_news

Fetch the latest news items from a DR RSS feed.

Parameters:

Returns: Array of news items:

[
  {
    "title": "Statsministeren holder pressemøde om ny aftale",
    "link": "https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/...",
    "summary": "Statsministeren har indkaldt til et pressemøde og vil præsentere en ny aftale om klimaet.",
    "published": "2024-06-01T08:00:00.000Z",
    "categories": ["Politik", "Klima"]
  }
]

Fields: title, link, summary (HTML stripped), published (ISO 8601), categories (optional).

search_news

Fetch a DR RSS feed and return only items whose title or summary contains the search query (case-insensitive).

Parameters:

Returns:

{
  "query": "klima",
  "feed": "senestenyt",
  "matchCount": 3,
  "items": [...]
}

Available Feeds

National / topical

Regional

ARIA MCP Config

Add to your ARIA credentials / MCP config to use with ARIA:

{
  "Name": "DR Nyheder",
  "Command": "npx",
  "Args": ["-y", "aria-mcp-news-dr"]
}

No environment variables required — all feeds are fully keyless.

Development

git clone https://github.com/kimhjort/aria-mcp-news-dr
cd aria-mcp-news-dr
npm install
npm run build
npm test

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

News content is provided by DR (Danmarks Radio). Feeds are for personal use; see dr.dk for terms.