Zipp MCP
Multi-language crypto news for AI assistants — editorial summaries,sentiment labels (BULLISH / NEUTRAL / BEARISH), importance scores(0–100), and every story credited to its original publisher.
This repository hosts the public listing manifest and thezipp-mcp Python package. The canonical Zipp MCP server ishosted at https://zippfeed.com/mcp/ — most clients should connectto that URL directly. The PyPI / Docker package is for the caseswhere they can't: stdio-only desktop clients, locked-down networks,or anywhere you want a self-contained install.
- 🌐 Website: zippfeed.com
- 🔌 MCP endpoint:
https://zippfeed.com/mcp/ - 📡 Transport: Streamable HTTP (MCP spec
2025-06-18) - 🔓 Auth: none — public, rate-limited at the Cloudflare edge
- 📰 Coverage: crypto / blockchain / Web3 across 8 languages
- ✍️ Editorial: every item carries sentiment + importance + source attribution
- 📦 PyPI:
uvx zipp-mcp· Docker:ghcr.io/deficlow/zipp-mcp(Day 3 follow-up)
Self-host
Three install paths. All three speak the same protocol and call thesame upstream API; the right choice depends on the client.
uvx — no install, one command
For stdio MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor's stdio mode, Cline,Zed, etc.) that prefer launching a local subprocess:
uvx zipp-mcp
Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["zipp-mcp"]
}
}
}
pip install — for embedded use
pip install zipp-mcp
zipp-mcp --transport stdio
Or import the client directly in your own code:
from zipp_mcp import ZippClient
async with ZippClient() as zipp:
payload = await zipp.search(query="bitcoin etf", lang="en-US", limit=5)
for item in payload["items"]:
print(item["title"], item["sentiment"], item["importance"])
Docker — for hosted / sandboxed environments
docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/deficlow/zipp-mcp
For Streamable HTTP transport on a server (Railway, Fly, Render):
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
ghcr.io/deficlow/zipp-mcp \
zipp-mcp --transport http
Configuration
All flags read from env vars too; everything is optional.
| Env var | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
ZIPP_API_BASE |
https://zippfeed.com |
Upstream Zipp deployment (staging, mirror, etc.) |
ZIPP_API_TIMEOUT_S |
30 |
HTTP client timeout (1–120s) |
MCP_HOST |
127.0.0.1 |
Bind host for HTTP/SSE transports (set 0.0.0.0 in containers) |
MCP_PORT |
8080 |
Bind port; also aliased as PORT for Railway/Fly/Render/Heroku |
The package is read-only — there is nothing to authenticate; theupstream API is public and rate-limited at the Cloudflare edge.
Why Zipp?
Most news connectors are pure aggregators that hand the model a rawheadline list. Zipp adds an editorial layer on top of the firehose:
| Signal | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sentiment | Each story labelled BULLISH / NEUTRAL / BEARISH (editorial, not advice) |
| Importance | 0–100 score; ≥ 75 is the breaking threshold |
| Multi-language | 8 languages, native-quality summaries (not auto-translate) |
| Attribution | Original publisher name + URL on every item, always |
| Taxonomy | 7 categories × 5 sub-leaves = 35 leaves, stable slugs |
Quick start
Zipp speaks Streamable HTTP at https://zippfeed.com/mcp/ — noauth, no install. Below are copy-paste configs for the majorMCP-capable clients, plus two ways to smoke-test the endpoint.
Claude Desktop
Add to your claude_desktop_config.json (macOS:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/"
}
}
}
Restart Claude Desktop. You should see Zipp in the tool list and beable to ask things like "What's breaking in crypto right now?" or"Search Zipp for Bitcoin ETF inflows in Turkish."
Claude Code (CLI)
One-liner — registers Zipp at user scope so every project sees it:
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http zipp https://zippfeed.com/mcp/
Verify with claude mcp list.
Claude.ai web (Connectors)
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector →URL: https://zippfeed.com/mcp/ → no authentication.
ChatGPT (Custom Connectors)
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom connector →URL: https://zippfeed.com/mcp/ → Authentication: None.
Cursor
~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"url": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/"
}
}
}
Windsurf
~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"serverUrl": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/"
}
}
}
Cline (VS Code extension)
Open the Cline panel → MCP Servers → Edit Configuration, thenadd Zipp to cline_mcp_settings.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"url": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/",
"type": "streamableHttp"
}
}
}
Zed
~/.config/zed/settings.json — Zed's context_servers interface isstdio-only today, so use the mcp-remotebridge:
{
"context_servers": {
"zipp": {
"command": {
"path": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/"]
}
}
}
}
Gemini CLI
~/.gemini/settings.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"zipp": {
"httpUrl": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/"
}
}
}
OpenAI Responses API
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI()
resp = client.responses.create(
model="gpt-5",
tools=[{
"type": "mcp",
"server_label": "zipp",
"server_url": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/",
"require_approval": "never",
}],
input="What's breaking in crypto right now? Cite the original publisher.",
)
print(resp.output_text)
Anthropic Messages API
The MCP connector is a beta — pass the header below until it goes GA:
import anthropic
client = anthropic.Anthropic()
msg = client.messages.create(
model="claude-opus-4-7",
max_tokens=1024,
mcp_servers=[{
"type": "url",
"url": "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/",
"name": "zipp",
}],
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What's breaking in crypto right now?"}],
extra_headers={"anthropic-beta": "mcp-client-2025-04-04"},
)
print(msg.content)
Smoke test
Verify the server from your shell — no client needed:
curl -s -X POST "https://zippfeed.com/mcp/" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"smoke","version":"1.0"}}}'
Expected: a JSON-RPC initialize result where serverInfo.name = "Zipp"and the server advertises tools, resources, and prompts capabilities.
For an interactive UI, run the official MCP Inspector:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
In the browser tab that opens, pick Streamable HTTP as thetransport, paste https://zippfeed.com/mcp/, click Connect, thenbrowse the Tools / Resources / Prompts tabs to exercise theserver end-to-end.
Tools
| Tool | Signature | What it returns |
|---|---|---|
search |
(query, lang?, category?, limit?) |
Full-text search, recency-first |
get_latest |
(lang?, category?, limit?) |
Stories from the last 24 hours |
get_breaking |
(lang?, limit?) |
Importance ≥ 75 within the last 24 hours |
get_featured |
(lang?, limit?) |
Editor-curated highlights |
get_post |
(slug_or_id, lang?) |
Full post body + all categories + hashtags |
list_categories |
(lang?) |
The 7 × 5 taxonomy (35 leaves) |
lang defaults to en-US. See Languages below for the full list.
Sample response
get_latest(lang="en-US", limit=1) returns shape:
{
"items": [
{
"id": 1234,
"slug": "bitcoin-etf-inflows-500m",
"url": "https://zippfeed.com/en-US/a/bitcoin-etf-inflows-500m",
"title": "Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $500M",
"summary": "Spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed $500M in net inflows…",
"category": "markets-etfs",
"sentiment": "BULLISH",
"importance": 82,
"published_at": "2026-05-13T15:08:55Z",
"language": "en-US",
"tags": ["markets-etfs", "btc", "etf"],
"source": {
"name": "CoinDesk",
"url": "https://www.coindesk.com/..."
},
"image_url": "https://cdn.zippfeed.com/images/rss/abc.jpg"
}
]
}
get_post additionally returns the full body, hashtags, and anexpanded categories[] array.
Languages
| Code | Language |
|---|---|
en-US |
English |
tr-TR |
Türkçe |
es-ES |
Español |
ru-RU |
Русский |
pt-PT |
Português |
fr-FR |
Français |
de-DE |
Deutsch |
it-IT |
Italiano |
Every story is editorially summarised in every supported language;sentiment and importance scoring are computed once and shared acrosslanguage variants.
Attribution policy
Every Zipp story carries the original publisher in the source field.When you surface Zipp content in an AI response, please credit bothZipp and the original publisher, e.g.:
via Zipp — original: CoinDesk
Linking to the original source.url is encouraged. Zipp's owncanonical URL (item.url) is the right link when pointing to theeditorial summary.
Editorial methodology
Zipp's editorial process — feed selection, AI-assisted summarisation,sentiment + importance scoring, human review — is documented atzippfeed.com/en-US/p/methodology.
Sentiment is editorial labelling, not investment advice.
Related discovery surfaces
Zipp is published to the official MCP Server Registry ascom.zippfeed/zipp —directories that aggregate the registry (Smithery, Glama, mcp.so,PulseMCP, etc.) pick it up automatically.
If you're building tooling around Zipp, the following endpoints arealso public:
/llms.txt— AI-discoverable URL map/sitemap.xml,/news_sitemap.xml,/image_sitemap.xml/rss.xml+/feed.json(per-language + per-category + per-slice variants)
The standalone developer REST API was retired on 2026-05-14 — GET /developer/v1/* now returns 410 Gone with a pointer to the MCP endpoint. AI-agent integrations should use MCP; long-form content readers should use the RSS or JSON Feed surfaces above.
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- Contact:
[email protected]
License
This repository — README, manifest, and the example client — isreleased under the MIT License. It covers the publicdocumentation and listing manifest only; the MCP serverimplementation itself is proprietary and hosted by Zipp.