RIA MCP - Raads Intelligence

MCP server for searching Dutch municipal council meeting transcripts from Claude Desktop or Claude Code.

Install

pip install ria-mcp

Add to Claude Desktop

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ria": {
      "command": "ria-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The database downloads automatically on first use (~20MB).

What you can ask Claude

• "Search for discussions about woningbouw in Amsterdam"
• "List all council meetings from last week"
• "Show me the full transcript of the Eindhoven meeting on March 31"
• "Find all mentions of coalitievorming across municipalities"
• "Give me an overview of meetings in Haarlem"
• "What are the overall stats?"

Tools

Update data

ria-mcp --update

Advanced

# Use local transcripts folder
ria-mcp --transcripts /path/to/transcripts

# Use specific database
ria-mcp --db /path/to/transcripts.db

# Run as REST API
ria-mcp --api

# Show stats
ria-mcp --stats