Overview

MCP server to get content from thoroughbreddailynews.com's RSS feed

Requirements

• `uv`. Installation instructions at https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/

Getting Started

Part 1: Running MCP Server

1. Clone this repository

2. `cd horseracingnews`

3. Run `uv run horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py` and keep running.

Part 2: Update Claude Desktop Configuration (assuming macOS)

1. Run `cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude`

2. Use your favorite editor and open up `claude_desktop_config.json` (e.g., `vim claude_desktop_config.json`)

3. Assuming you never added an MCP server to the configuration file before, add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "horseracing": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "/path/to/horseracingnews",
        "run",
        "horse_racing_news_mcp_server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Make sure to restart Claude Desktop

Source

• https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/feed/ (RSS)

Prompts Used

I was informed of Thoroughbred Daily News yesterday. They provide an RSS feed at https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/feed/.  Can you write a Python program that:

Loads the feed
Parse the XML
For each story, show the title, content, and link

`Excellent, thanks so much! Now, can you turn it into an MCP server using FastMCP? Expose one method for @mcp.tool() named get_horse_racing_news.`