ddb-mcp

Item: ddb-mcp
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

MCP server and CLI for full-text search of the Deutsches Zeitungsportal (German newspaper collection), enabling querying ~33.8 million digitized pages with Solr syntax, date/title/place filters, and snippet highlights.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: DDB_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configXDG_CACHE_HOME— Downloads are cached in $/ddb-mcp (override with --cache-dir or DDB_CACHE_DIR). The cache location does not depend on the working directory, so the CLI can be run from anywhere.

🔐 secretDDB_API_KEY— export =your_key_here

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commit: f9bc3714b1d66002ea062fe6daa366f1eae18b7b

code hash: 5e1682764fe19eac9966caddf747b650012cd53d6c5fc2d3be44c7a4f95fa0e9

verified: 7/30/2026, 8:45:47 AM

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