Opportunity MCP

A Model Context Protocol server that lets any AI assistant search youth opportunities — scholarships, fellowships, internships, conferences, and exchange programs — aggregated live from leading opportunity-discovery sites.

Status: alpha (v0.1.x). Schema, tool surface, and source list may change as adapters mature. Pin to a minor version in production.

Overview

Students who depend on third-party scholarship-aggregator sites typically open ten or more tabs, sift through dozens of irrelevant posts, and copy deadlines into a personal spreadsheet — only to miss the application window because no aggregator offers reliable deadline tracking. Opportunity MCP collapses that workflow into a single conversational query.

You: Find fully-funded master's scholarships in Europe with deadlines in the next 60 days, eligible for Pakistani citizens.

Claude: (Returns a deduplicated, structured list pulled live from the indexed sources, sorted by deadline, each linking back to the original article.)

The server runs locally over stdio, ships an SQLite + FTS5 index that refreshes every six hours via CI, and is distributed through PyPI, the official MCP Registry, and Smithery.

Distribution channels

Installation

Claude Desktop

pip install opportunity-mcp
opportunity-mcp-refresh           # build the local index (one-off, ~30 seconds)

Add the following to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opportunities": {
      "command": "opportunity-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The six tools below become available to the model.

Cursor, Windsurf, Continue, and other MCP clients

Most clients use the same mcpServers shape. Point the command at opportunity-mcp (after pip install) or use uvx for zero-install:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opportunities": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["opportunity-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Smithery (one-click install)

https://smithery.ai/server/sayedhusnainhader/opportunity-mcp — Smithery handles the install command for you.

From source

git clone https://github.com/revolutionarybukhari/opportunity-mcp
cd opportunity-mcp
uv sync                           # or: pip install -e ".[dev]"
uv run opportunity-mcp-refresh
uv run opportunity-mcp            # speaks MCP over stdio

Tools

The server exposes six tools. Each accepts JSON arguments and returns Pydantic-typed results.

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