LABSCO SUMMARY

Your reading list, answerable as a question.

Because the items are cached locally and filterable, "what happened in my feeds today" and "has anyone written about X this week" are both one query — over the sources you chose rather than whatever a search engine surfaces.

What it is

A feed reader with a local SQLite cache in front of it. It fetches and stores your subscriptions, filters them by category, source or keyword, and returns the recent items as structured records — title, summary, publication time, origin and link — rather than as pages to parse.

What you get

Fetching and caching of RSS feeds into a local SQLite database, so repeat questions do not re-fetch every source
Filtering by category, source or keyword
Feed management — add, update and delete the feeds in the collection
Article fetching through Firecrawl, for when the feed's summary is not the whole story

Requirements

Bun as the runtime, and a Firecrawl API key in FIRECRAWL_API_KEY for the article-fetching path. bun install, then run apps/mcp-server/src/mcp-cli.ts from your client config with cwd set to the repository. PORT defaults to 5556 and DB_DIR decides where the database lives, defaulting to ~/.mcp-rss-crawler. Set DEBUG=mcp-rss:* when you need to see what a failing fetch is doing.

Setup effort

Follow the published steps — Clone this repository

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Catching up on your subscriptions

Ask for the latest across your feeds and get titles, summaries and links back rather than opening a reader.

02

Following one topic across sources

Filter by keyword so the answer spans every feed that mentioned it, not one site at a time.

03

Reading the article, not the excerpt

Fetch the full piece through Firecrawl when the feed only carries a summary.

04

Curating what you follow

Add, update and delete feeds from the conversation instead of editing an OPML file.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Requires

FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in your environment

Where it runs

The documented client runs the server on your machine.

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Server setup

Clone this repository

Create a claude_desktop_config.json file based on claude_desktop_config.json.example with your configuration

Install dependencies:

TERMINAL

bun install

Start Claude Desktop

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rss-crawler": {
      "command": "<YOUR_PATH_TO_BUN>",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "<YOUR_DB_DIR>/apps/mcp-server/src/mcp-cli.ts"
      ],
      "cwd": "<YOUR_DB_DIR>",
      "env": {
        "PORT": "5556",
        "DB_DIR": "<YOUR_DB_DIR>",
        "FIRECRAWL_API_KEY": "fc-<YOUR_FIRECRAWL_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

MCP RSS Crawler