tagesschau-mcp 📰

mcp-name: io.github.mohammad-abbasi-sh/tagesschau-mcp

Unofficial read-only MCP server for tagesschau.de — the news of the ARD, Germany's most-watched TV news — via its official RSS feeds. Headlines, news by section, regional news for all 16 Bundesländer, latest videos and full article text. No key, no login.

Built by Mohammad Abbasi as part of the "Germany MCP factory" (Sepehr-style pipeline). Not affiliated with tagesschau.de or the ARD.

For AI agents

Add to your MCP client config (stdio):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tagesschau": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["tagesschau-mcp==0.1.0"]
    }
  }
}

Or run locally: python -m tagesschau_mcp.server (needs mcp<2, httpx).

Tools

Example output (tagesschau_headlines, limit 2):

{"feed_title": "tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD", "total_results": 40, "count": 2,
 "items": [
  {"title": "Börsengang von Anthropic - umstrittener Goldrausch in San Francisco",
   "link": "https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/goldrausch-san-fransisco-anthropic-vor-boersengang-100.html",
   "description": "Der KI-Gigant Anthropic will an die Börse. Und damit könnten Tausende Mitarbeiter und Investoren zu Millionären werden. ...",
   "published": "2026-11-10T09:42:31+00:00"},
  {"title": "Was von den Ukraine-Gesprächen in Abu Dhabi zu erwarten ist",
   "link": "https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/ukraine-verhandlungen-abu-dhabi-104.html",
   "description": "Unterhändler Russlands und der Ukraine haben ihre Gespräche unter US-Vermittlung in Abu Dhabi aufgenommen. ...",
   "published": "2026-11-10T09:18:35+00:00"},
  ...]}

Notes:

• The server reads the official RSS feeds, not the JSON API (api2): api2 returns HTTP 403 from datacenter IPs even with full browser headers (verified 2026-11-10), while the RSS feeds answer 200 — same news, no wall.
• tagesschau_search_news filters the headlines feed plus all 7 section feeds client-side (the site search page is also bot-walled), de-duplicated by link, newest first.
• tagesschau_get_article reads the NewsArticle JSON-LD embedded in the article page (headline, description, publish date, full body). Only www.tagesschau.de URLs are fetched.
• Regional feeds exist for all 16 Bundesländer; five slugs have no hyphen (badenwuerttemberg, mecklenburgvorpommern, rheinlandpfalz, sachsenanhalt, schleswigholstein) — the tool accepts the hyphenated name anyway.
• Data: tagesschau.de public RSS feeds — no key, no login, read-only.

Development

python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install "mcp<2" httpx pytest
.venv/bin/pip install -e .
.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/ -q

• tests/test_domain.py — offline, parses real captured RSS feeds + article page (30 tests)
• tests/test_live.py — cautious live requests against tagesschau.de (7 tests)

Tests: 37/37 green (30 offline + 7 live, 2026-11-10).

License

MIT

Built by Mohammad Abbasi — Almanibama · mabbasi.ir