Pulse CN MCP Server is a powerful tool that provides AI models with real-time trending content from the Chinese internet. Acting as a bridge between AI systems and popular Chinese social media platforms, news sites, and content aggregators, it delivers up-to-date information through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/wangtsiao/pulse-cn-mcp.git
# Navigate to the project directory
cd pulse-cn-mcp
# Using npm
npm install
npm run build
# Or using Bun (faster)
bun install
bun run build
Start the MCP server with:
# Using npm
npm start
# Or using Bun
bun start
This launches the server using the Stdio transport, making it ready for MCP-compatible AI models to connect.
Pulse CN MCP Server provides access to the following platforms:
Several additional data sources are planned for future implementation, including:
Here's how to integrate with the server using TypeScript:
import { McpClient } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client";
async function example() {
const client = new McpClient();
// Get Weibo trending topics
const weiboHotspots = await client.callTool("weibo-hotspots", {});
console.log(weiboHotspots.content);
// Get daily horoscope for Aries
const horoscope = await client.callTool("horoscope", { sign: "aries" });
console.log(horoscope.content);
}
Endpoint: /weibo-hotspots
Provides real-time trending topics from Weibo.
Endpoint: /horoscope
Delivers daily horoscope predictions by zodiac sign.
Endpoint: /daily-english-sentence
Offers daily motivational English quotes.
Endpoint: /internet-hotspots-aggregator
Aggregates trending topics from multiple sources.
Endpoint: /today-headlines-hotspots
Returns trending topics from Today's Headlines.
Endpoint: /paper-news-hotspots
Provides trending news from ThePaper.cn.
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "weibo-hotspots" '{"command":"npx","args":["-y","@wangtsiao/pulse-cn-mcp"]}'See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"weibo-hotspots": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@wangtsiao/pulse-cn-mcp"
]
}
}
}To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"weibo-hotspots": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@wangtsiao/pulse-cn-mcp"
]
}
}
}3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect