🇨🇭 Part of the Swiss Public Data MCP Portfolio

📺 srgssr-mcp

MCP server connecting AI models to SRG SSR public APIs – weather, TV/radio metadata, program guide and Swiss votations/elections since 1900 (SRF, RTS, RSI, RTR, SWI).

🇩🇪 Deutsche Version

Overview

srgssr-mcp gives AI assistants like Claude direct access to the public APIs of SRG SSR – Switzerland's national public broadcaster. Weather forecasts, TV and radio metadata, electronic program guides, and historical democratic data (votations and elections since 1900) are all accessible through a single standardised MCP interface.

The server covers five thematic clusters: SRF Weather, Video, Audio, EPG and Polis (Swiss Democracy). Each cluster maps to a group of purpose-built tools that translate raw SRG SSR API data into clean JSON responses.

Anchor demo query: "What were the cantonal results of the popular vote on initiative X in Zurich?" – answered with historical real-time data from the Polis system, not a hallucination.

Features

• 🌦️ Weather – location search, current conditions, 24h hourly forecast, 7-day forecast (SRF Meteo)
• 📺 Video – TV show listings, latest episodes, live TV channels across all business units
• 🎙️ Audio – radio show listings, audio episodes, live radio stations
• 📅 EPG – daily program schedule for any TV or radio channel
• 🗳️ Polis – popular votes and elections since 1900, national and cantonal results
• 🏢 Multi-unit – SRF (DE), RTS (FR), RSI (IT), RTR (RM), SWI (multilingual)
• 🔐 OAuth2 – automatic token management with Client Credentials flow
• ☁️ Dual transport – stdio for Claude Desktop, Streamable HTTP/SSE for cloud deployment

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• API keys from developer.srgssr.ch (free registration):
  1. Create an account and log in
  2. Under "My Apps", create a new application
  3. Add the product SRG SSR PUBLIC API V2
  4. Note your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret

⚠️ Terms of use: SRG SSR APIs are available for non-commercial use. For commercial use, contact api@srgssr.ch directly.

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/malkreide/srgssr-mcp.git
cd srgssr-mcp

# Install
pip install -e .

Or with uvx (no permanent installation):

uvx srgssr-mcp

Or via pip:

pip install srgssr-mcp

Quickstart

# Set credentials
export SRGSSR_CONSUMER_KEY="your-consumer-key"
export SRGSSR_CONSUMER_SECRET="your-consumer-secret"

# Start the server (stdio mode for Claude Desktop)
srgssr-mcp

Try it immediately in Claude Desktop:

"What will the weather be like in Zurich tomorrow?" "What's on SRF 1 tonight?" "Which popular votes took place in the canton of Bern between 2010 and 2020?"

Configuration

Claude Desktop

Minimal (recommended):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "srgssr": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["srgssr-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SRGSSR_CONSUMER_KEY": "your-consumer-key",
        "SRGSSR_CONSUMER_SECRET": "your-consumer-secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config file locations:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

After saving, restart Claude Desktop completely.

Other MCP Clients

Compatible with Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code + Continue, LibreChat, Cline, and self-hosted models via mcp-proxy. Set the same environment variables.

Cloud Deployment (SSE for browser access)

For use via claude.ai in the browser (e.g. on managed workstations without local software):

SRGSSR_CONSUMER_KEY=... \
SRGSSR_CONSUMER_SECRET=... \
SRGSSR_MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http \
SRGSSR_MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
SRGSSR_MCP_PORT=8000 \
  python -m srgssr_mcp.server

Transport, host, port and mount path are all driven by environment variables (see srgssr_mcp.server.Settings). Valid values for SRGSSR_MCP_TRANSPORT are stdio (default), sse, and streamable-http.

💡 "stdio for the developer laptop, SSE for the browser."

MCP Primitives

This server exposes all three orthogonal MCP primitives:

Tools cover parametrized searches (year ranges, free-text, paginated listings) where every call may yield different results. Resources expose stable data points that are safe to cache: a published EPG for a given channel/date, or the final result of a closed Swiss votation. Prompts standardise recurring multi-step analyses so users don't have to phrase them from scratch.

Resources

EPG station ids — hyphenated, and not the same as the livestream ids:

Prompts

Available Tools

Tool Naming Convention

This server uses snake_case for tool names, following Python ecosystem idioms. While MCP best practice favors camelCase for optimal LLM tokenization, snake_case remains acceptable and keeps tool names aligned with the underlying Python function identifiers.

All tools follow the pattern srgssr_<domain>_<action> with the namespace prefix srgssr_ and a semantically meaningful <domain>_<action> suffix (e.g. srgssr_weather_current, srgssr_polis_get_votations).

🌦️ SRF Weather (4 tools)

📺 Video (3 tools)

🎙️ Audio (3 tools)

📅 EPG – Electronic Program Guide (1 tool)

🗳️ Polis – Swiss Democracy (3 tools)

Supported Business Units

Example Use Cases