deutschlandfunk-mcp 📻

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

Unofficial read-only MCP server for deutschlandfunk.de — Deutschlandfunk news & radio from its official RSS feeds: rolling news, latest contributions, topic feeds, keyword search, full article text and the live stream link. No key, no login. No key, no login.

Built by Mohammad Abbasi as part of the "Germany MCP factory". Not affiliated with deutschlandfunk.de.

For AI agents

Add to your MCP client config (stdio):

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

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

Tools

Tool	Description
dlf_latest_news	Rolling DLF news headlines — limit 1..50
dlf_latest_contributions	Latest DLF contributions (articles & audio features) — limit 1..50
dlf_news_by_topic	DLF news by topic — topic (europa/gesellschaft/wirtschaft/wissen/kultur/sport/politik), limit 1..50
dlf_search_news	Keyword search over recent DLF items — query, limit 1..50
dlf_get_article	Full text of one DLF article — url (a deutschlandfunk.de article link)
dlf_listen_live	Deutschlandfunk live stream link (verified reachable) — no arguments
dlf_health	Reachability probe (ok / blocked / error) — one polite request

Notes

• All data comes from Deutschlandfunk's official RSS feeds (free, no key, no login).
• DLF pages are JS-app shells: article text is extracted from embedded js-client-queries JSON blobs (Article with ParagraphText blocks) — there is no JSON-LD and the visible <p> tags are navigation/topic descriptions, not the article body.
• The live stream URL 302-redirects to a signed CDN URL; dlf_listen_live reports the canonical URL plus its HEAD reachability.
• Podcast show listing is not a tool: the podcasts page's pathPodcast fields are section navigation links, not per-show feeds (show feeds exist per show as <slug>-100.rss but are not reliably enumerable from the page).

Tests: 23/23 green (16 offline + 7 live, 2026-11-10).

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

License

MIT

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