TrendRadar MCP Server: Setup for Claude Code, Cursor and Other Apps

• Turns phrases like last week into exact dates

  Converts a natural phrase such as this week or last 7 days into a precise date range on the server, so every model gets the same dates. The server recommends calling it first.

  Try: “What are the exact dates for last week?”

  Read · resolve_date_range

• Shows the newest trending headlines

  Returns the latest batch of crawled hot-list news, optionally for chosen platforms such as Zhihu or Weibo, up to 1000 items.

  Try: “What is trending on Weibo and Zhihu right now?”

  Read · get_latest_news

• Gets headlines from a past day or range

  Returns news for a date or date range, for history and comparison.

  Try: “Show me the headlines from yesterday.”

  Read · get_news_by_date

• Counts the hottest topics

  Counts topic frequency, either for your saved watch words or by pulling frequent words from headlines automatically.

  Try: “Which topics are hottest today?”

  Read · get_trending_topics

• Shows new items from your RSS feeds

  Returns recent items from your RSS feeds, up to 30 days back. RSS data is stored apart from hot-list news.

  Try: “Show me the latest items from Hacker News and 36kr.”

  Read · get_latest_rss

• Searches your RSS feeds

  Finds RSS articles that contain a keyword, over up to 30 days.

  Try: “Search my feeds for machine learning.”

  Read · search_rss

• Shows which RSS feeds have data

  Lists your configured RSS feeds and how many items each has today.

  Try: “Which RSS feeds are working?”

  Read · get_rss_feeds_status

• Searches headlines by keyword, fuzzy text or name

  Searches the hot lists and RSS in keyword, fuzzy or entity mode, for a date range and chosen platforms.

  Try: “Search for news about Tesla this week.”

  Read · search_news

• Finds news similar to a headline

  Finds other headlines related to a title you give, today or from history, with a similarity cut-off you can set.

  Try: “Find news related to this headline.”

  Read · find_related_news

• Tracks how a topic's attention rises and falls

  Analyses one topic over time: trend, life cycle, sudden spikes or a prediction.

  Try: “Analyse how much attention Tesla got over the last 7 days.”

  Read · analyze_topic_trend

• Compares platforms and keyword patterns

  Compares how platforms cover a topic, how active each platform is, or which keywords appear together.

  Try: “Which platforms talk most about AI?”

  Read · analyze_data_insights

• Rates the mood of news about a topic

  Analyses sentiment and popularity of news about a topic over a date range. Your AI client reads the data and judges the sentiment.

  Try: “How positive is the news about Bitcoin today?”

  Read · analyze_sentiment

• Merges the same story across platforms

  Merges similar headlines from different platforms into one entry that shows cross-platform coverage.

  Try: “Group today's headlines by event.”

  Read · aggregate_news

• Compares two time periods

  Compares topics, platform activity and news volume between two periods, such as this week and last week.

  Try: “Compare this week's hot topics with last week's.”

  Read · compare_periods

• Builds a daily or weekly digest

  Generates a daily or weekly hot-topic report with Markdown content.

  Try: “Generate today's hot-topic summary report.”

  Read · generate_summary_report

• Shows the current TrendRadar settings

  Returns settings for crawling, push, keywords and weights.

  Try: “Show me my crawler settings.”

  Read · get_current_config

• Shows the system's health

  Returns the version, data statistics and cache state.

  Try: “Is TrendRadar working correctly?”

  Read · get_system_status

• Checks for a newer version

  Compares your local TrendRadar and MCP server versions with the ones on GitHub. It accepts an optional proxy address.

  Try: “Is there a newer TrendRadar version?”

  Network · check_version

• Runs a news crawl now

  Starts a crawl of the chosen platforms and returns the results. It saves to your output folder only if you ask.

  Try: “Fetch the latest news from Zhihu now.”

  Write · trigger_crawl

• Pulls saved data from cloud storage

  Pulls the last N days of data from remote storage such as Cloudflare R2 to local disk.

  Try: “Sync the last 7 days from remote storage.”

  Write · sync_from_remote

• Shows where data is stored

  Shows the storage settings and the state of local and remote storage.

  Try: “Where is my TrendRadar data stored?”

  Read · get_storage_status

• Lists the days that have data

  Lists which dates have data locally, remotely or both.

  Try: “Which dates do I have data for?”

  Read · list_available_dates

• Reads a news article in full

  Fetches a web page through the Jina AI Reader service and returns clean Markdown. The article address is sent to that service.

  Try: “Read the article at this link.”

  Network · read_article

• Reads up to five articles

  Reads up to five article addresses one after another, 5 seconds apart, through the Jina AI Reader service.

  Try: “Read these three articles and compare them.”

  Network · read_articles_batch

• Shows which alert channels are set up

  Detects configured channels from config.yaml and environment variables, out of nine supported such as Feishu, Telegram, email and Slack.

  Try: “Which notification channels are configured?”

  Read · get_notification_channels

• Explains each channel's message formatting

  Returns the Markdown features and limits for a channel, to read before sending.

  Try: “How should I format a message for Telegram?”

  Read · get_channel_format_guide

• Sends a message to your alert channels

  Sends Markdown content to channels you configured, adapting the format for each. Messages go to real channels such as chat apps and email.

  Try: “Send today's summary to my Telegram channel.”

  Write · send_notification

Watch out for

• It can send messages to your real channels

  send_notification posts to every channel you set up, such as Telegram, Slack or email. Leave channels unconfigured if the assistant should not send anything. github.com

• Article reading goes through a third-party service

  read_article and read_articles_batch send article addresses to Jina AI Reader. Do not use them for private or internal pages. github.com

• Crawling and syncing write files

  trigger_crawl can save results to your output folder and sync_from_remote copies data from cloud storage to disk. github.com

• The HTTP mode listens on a local port

  Run with uv, the server's --host default is 0.0.0.0, so HTTP mode listens on every network interface unless you pass --host 127.0.0.1. The Docker setup in the README publishes port 3333 on 127.0.0.1. Keep the port off public networks. github.com

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