Trends Hub

Trends Hub is an MCP server that aggregates real-time trending topics and news from more than 20 online platforms and custom RSS feeds. It connects AI assistants directly to leading Chinese and international media, tech, and social feeds, including Zhihu, Weibo, Douyin, Bilibili, 36Kr, InfoQ, Juejin, BBC News, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and The New York Times. Developers, researchers, and content creators use it to pull current hot topics, cultural discussions, and tech industry updates directly into their LLM workflows. By acting as a standardized bridge using the Model Context Protocol, the server enables AI models to fetch real-time rankings and article digests without manual web scraping. Users can also configure environment variables to hide specific payload fields and attach custom RSS sources dynamically, making it a unified endpoint for tracking global and regional trends inside conversational and automated developer environments.

Category: Communication & Messaging

Tags: aggregation, news, real-time, rss, trends

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How to install and configure Trends Hub

1. Ensure Node.js version 22 or higher is installed on your system. 2. Open your client configuration file, such as claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop or cline_mcp_settings.json for Cline. 3. Add the Trends Hub server configuration under the mcpServers block: json { "mcpServers": { "trends-hub": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "mcp-trends-hub"] } } } 4. If using Cursor, go to Cursor Settings > MCP > Add new MCP Server, select type command, and set the command to npx -y mcp-trends-hub. 5. Optional: Add custom RSS feeds or filter fields by specifying TRENDS_HUB_CUSTOM_RSS_URL or TRENDS_HUB_HIDDEN_FIELDS within an env object in your configuration. 6. Restart your MCP client to initialize the server tools.

What you can do with Trends Hub

• Tracking real-time social media conversations across Weibo, Douyin, and Zhihu to analyze viral trends and public sentiment. - Monitoring software development updates by fetching ranked programming articles and cloud computing news from InfoQ and Juejin. - Summarizing breaking global news and editorial reports from international outlets such as BBC News and The New York Times. - Following consumer product launches and tech industry announcements using real-time feeds from 9to5Mac, The Verge, and 爱范儿. - Ingesting specialized industry articles by configuring custom external RSS feeds through server environment variables for rapid synthesis.

Key facts

• https://github.com/baranwang/mcp-trends-hub
• Communication & Messaging, Web Search & Research
• aggregation, news, real-time, rss, trends

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How do I install Trends Hub?

You can install Trends Hub by adding it to your MCP client configuration using the command npx with the arguments -y and mcp-trends-hub. For Claude Desktop, add this entry to your claude_desktop_config.json file. For Cursor, add a new command MCP server in the settings. You need Node.js version 22 or later installed on your computer.

What can Trends Hub do?

Trends Hub allows AI models to retrieve trending topics, social discussions, entertainment ranks, and news headlines across more than 20 platforms. It supports platforms like Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, Douyin, 36Kr, The Verge, and BBC News. It also supports custom RSS feed parsing and output field filtering.

Which MCP clients work with Trends Hub?

Trends Hub works with any MCP-compliant application that supports stdio commands. Documented clients include Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code with GitHub Copilot Chat, Windsurf, Cline, and MCPorter.

How do I add custom RSS feeds to Trends Hub?

You can add custom feeds by setting the TRENDS_HUB_CUSTOM_RSS_URL environment variable in your MCP configuration. Provide comma-separated feed URLs, and the server will automatically create tool endpoints derived from each source domain name.