The Oregonian MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for OregonLive.com / The Oregonian — Oregon's largest newspaper, continuously published since 1850.

Provides tools for fetching news articles, sports coverage, weather, and more via OregonLive.com's RSS feeds, plus ad placement and contextual ad support tools.

Built with mcp-hatchery conventions using the @modelcontextprotocol/sdk.

Tools

News & Content

Tool	Description
get-latest-news	Latest articles across all categories (up to 50)
get-category-news	Articles from a specific section (news, sports, weather, business, opinion, entertainment, politics, crime, education, environment, dining, beer, travel, portland)
get-sports	Sports news with optional team filter (blazers, ducks, beavers, timbers, thorns)
get-weather	Weather forecasts and climate news for Oregon
search-articles	Search articles by keyword
get-article	Fetch full article content from a URL
get-articles-by-author	Articles by a specific author

Information

Tool	Description
list-categories	List all available categories and sports teams
get-server-info	Server metadata and capabilities

Ad Support

Tool	Description
get-ad-placement	Ad slot configuration for a given placement (banner-top, inline-article, sidebar, footer) — placeholder for wiring to Google Ad Manager or similar
get-contextual-ads	Contextual ad suggestions based on content category and keywords — returns recommended advertiser types, CPM ranges, and audience profiles

Usage

Claude Desktop / Claude Code

Add to your MCP configuration — no install required:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-oregonian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "the-oregonian-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Remote (Netlify)

Deploy to Netlify, then access the MCP endpoint at https://your-site.netlify.app/api.

# Install Netlify CLI
npm install -g netlify-cli

# Deploy
netlify deploy --prod

Data Source

All news content is fetched from OregonLive.com's Arc XP RSS feeds:

• Main feed: https://www.oregonlive.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/?outputType=xml
• Category feeds: https://www.oregonlive.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/category/{slug}/?outputType=xml
• Author feeds: https://www.oregonlive.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/author/{slug}/?outputType=xml
• Keyword feeds: https://www.oregonlive.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/keyword/{keyword}/?outputType=xml

License

MIT