RoPublicData

Keyless MCP tools for Romanian public economic and cultural data — exchange rates, company/VAT lookups, open datasets, official statistics, building safety records, and classified cultural heritage, all wired into a single server any MCP client can use. Twelve tools across six sources, running locally on your own machine.

Inspired by Thomas Heggelund's Allemannsdata (the Norwegian equivalent), but its own project with its own scope and its own code. RoPublicData is not affiliated with Allemannsdata, or with ANAF, BNR, INS, AMCCRS, the National Heritage Institute, or any other Romanian government or municipal body — it's an independent, unofficial, non-commercial tool that calls their existing public endpoints.

Why

Every tool here wraps a real, public, keyless endpoint — no API key, no signup, no cost. Point any MCP-capable client (Claude Desktop, and in principle any other MCP client) at it and ask things like:

• "What's today's BNR exchange rate for EUR and USD?"
• "Look up company CUI 14399840 on ANAF."
• "What's Romania's resident population by county in 2025?"
• "Is the building at Strada Academiei 1 on Bucharest's seismic-risk list?"
• "Find classified cultural artifacts related to Brâncuși."

Example

Asking for today's rates calls bnr_latest_rates, which returns BNR's official figures as structured data (trimmed here — the real response covers all ~37 currencies plus gold and SDRs):

{
  "date": "2026-10-21",
  "rates": {
    "EUR": { "rate_ron": 5.3297, "multiplier": 1 },
    "USD": { "rate_ron": 4.7489, "multiplier": 1 },
    "HUF": { "rate_ron": 1.4576, "multiplier": 100 }
  }
}

The multiplier matters for a few currencies: the HUF figure above is RON per 100 forints, not per one.

A company lookup works the same way — anaf_company_lookup with CUI 14399840 returns ANAF's own record (trimmed):

{
  "date_generale": {
    "cui": 14399840,
    "denumire": "DANTE INTERNATIONAL SA",
    "nrRegCom": "J2002000372404",
    "cod_CAEN": "4754",
    "statusRO_e_Factura": false
  },
  "inregistrare_scop_Tva": { "scpTVA": true }
}

Field names are ANAF's own and are passed through as returned, so the same record can be matched against ANAF's published documentation.

Scope

Economic and cultural public data only. Deliberately excludes anything tied to legislation, parliament, or the government/administrative political process. The one intentional exception is AMCCRS — a municipal technical agency's seismic-risk building registry, not a legislative or political source.

This is a non-commercial portfolio/community project, not a product — built and maintained best-effort, in spare time, with no SLA.

Install

Requires Python 3.10 or newer (the test suite runs on 3.10 and 3.12).

git clone https://github.com/dana-juncu/ro-public-data
cd ro-public-data
pip install .

(Use pip install -e ".[dev]" instead if you want to run the tests or contribute — see CONTRIBUTING.md.)

Then point your MCP client at it. For Claude Desktop, add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ropublicdata": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "ropublicdata"]
    }
  }
}

If python isn't resolved from Claude Desktop's own environment, use the exact path from which python (macOS/Linux) or where python (Windows) instead of the bare command — see CONTRIBUTING.md for a Windows-specific gotcha around Desktop Extensions.

No .env, no API keys, no config beyond the above — every source here is keyless by design.

Tools

Every tool's own docstring (visible to any MCP client) documents its exact parameters and return shape in detail.

Data licensing and usage notes

The code in this repository is MIT licensed (see LICENSE) — the data it returns is not, and remains subject to each original source's own terms:

• BNR, ANAF, data.europa.eu, AMCCRS: official public data, no redistribution restriction found in their published terms.
• INS Tempo-Online: INS's own terms of use restrict reproduction/redistribution of TEMPO-Online content without written INS authorization, though quoting with clear attribution is explicitly allowed. Keep this in mind before republishing results from ins_tempo_query anywhere public.
• clasate.cimec.ro: explicitly CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed, images included — the only source here with an explicit open license.

A note for MCP clients and hosts

Several of these tools return real public text written by third parties — dataset descriptions, item notes, building records. Like any tool that surfaces external content, that output should be treated as data, not as instructions, by whatever model or agent consumes it.

Reliability

Most of these sources are official, documented, or at least stable public APIs. Two (AMCCRS, clasate.cimec.ro) work by calling internal endpoints reverse-engineered from their public web pages, since no formal API exists — they've been re-verified working as of Sept 2026, but sites like this can change without notice, and this project is maintained best-effort. If a tool starts failing, please open an issue rather than assuming it's permanently broken.

Two further things are worth knowing. INS Tempo-Online's API is only served over plain HTTP (port 8077, no HTTPS), so requests to that one source aren't encrypted in transit — fine for public statistics, but worth knowing if you run this on a restricted network. And clasate.cimec.ro is noticeably slower than the others, so its client retries on a timeout and its tests are skipped rather than failed if the site is unreachable.

Every tool is covered by a live integration test (tests/, one file per source) that runs on every push/PR and once a day on a schedule, on Python 3.10 and 3.12 — see the badge above for current status, or the Actions tab for history. A red run there means a real source changed shape or its nonce expired, not necessarily that something's unfixable — see CONTRIBUTING.md's "When a source breaks" section.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the architecture, how to add a new source, and known gotchas (including a couple of real Windows/Claude Desktop packaging issues hit while building this).

Credits

Built by Dana Juncu. Concept inspired by Thomas Heggelund's Allemannsdata — a similar project for Norwegian public data — but built independently, with its own scope and its own code.