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FreshRSS for VS Code

io.github.ni-c/freshrss-mcp

MCP server for FreshRSS, the self-hosted RSS feed aggregator

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install FreshRSS in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-url",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-user",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_USER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-api-password",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_API_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-read-only",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_READ_ONLY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-insecure-tls",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_INSECURE_TLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-allow-tools",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_ALLOW_TOOLS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "freshrss-deny-tools",
      "description": "FRESHRSS_DENY_TOOLS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "freshrss-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/freshrss-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "FRESHRSS_URL": "${input:freshrss-url}",
        "FRESHRSS_USER": "${input:freshrss-user}",
        "FRESHRSS_API_PASSWORD": "${input:freshrss-api-password}",
        "FRESHRSS_READ_ONLY": "${input:freshrss-read-only}",
        "FRESHRSS_INSECURE_TLS": "${input:freshrss-insecure-tls}",
        "FRESHRSS_ALLOW_TOOLS": "${input:freshrss-allow-tools}",
        "FRESHRSS_DENY_TOOLS": "${input:freshrss-deny-tools}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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