opportunity-mcp

Opportunity MCP

Search 10+ youth-opportunity sites — scholarships, fellowships, internships, conferences, exchange programs — from any AI assistant via MCP.

Status: alpha. The schema and source list will change as adapters mature.

Why

A bright student in Lahore, Lagos, Cairo, or Manila wants to find a fully-funded master's scholarship. Today they:

• Open 10+ tabs (Scholarships Corner, Youth Opportunities, Opportunity Desk, …).
• Manually filter through dozens of irrelevant posts.
• Copy-paste deadlines into a spreadsheet.
• Miss the deadline anyway because no source tracks them.

Opportunity MCP turns that into:

You: Find me fully-funded master's scholarships in Europe with deadlines in the next 60 days.

Claude: (returns a clean, deduplicated, structured list pulled live from every source)

Install (Claude Desktop)

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

Then add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

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

Restart Claude Desktop. Try: "Use the opportunities tool to find fully-funded fellowships closing in the next 30 days."

Cursor / Windsurf / Continue

Most MCP clients accept the same shape under mcpServers. Point them at the opportunity-mcp command.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/opportunity-mcp/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 exposed

Tool	What it does
search_opportunities(query, type?, funded_only?, deadline_before?, limit?)	Full-text search with filters.
get_opportunity(id)	Look up a single opportunity by id.
list_latest(type?, limit?)	Newest opportunities across all sources.
list_upcoming_deadlines(within_days?, type?)	Sorted by closing date.
list_sources()	What's indexed and when it was last refreshed.
refresh_index(source?)	Re-fetch sources on demand. Optional: limit to one source.

Sources

Source	Type	Status
Opportunities Corners	RSS	✅
Opportunities for Youth	RSS	✅
Opportunity Desk	RSS	✅
Scholarships Corner	RSS	✅
Opportunities Circle	RSS	✅
Opportunities for Africans	RSS	✅
Scholars4Dev	RSS	✅
Youth Opportunities (youthop.com)	HTML	planned
After School Africa	HTML	planned

See docs/SOURCES.md for robots.txt / ToS notes per source.

Example prompts

Find me fully-funded master's scholarships in Europe with deadlines in the next 60 days.

What internships are open right now for students in Africa?

List the top 10 newest opportunities indexed.

Anything closing in the next 7 days that I might be eligible for as a Pakistani undergrad?

Get details on opportunity a1b2c3d4e5f60718.

Privacy & ethics

• No user tracking. Queries never leave your machine.
• All indexed data is public. Articles always link back to the original source.
• Polite identification. The User-Agent contains a contact URL so site owners can reach us.
• Conservative refresh cadence. Every 6h via CI, never on user query.
• Source removals. If a site asks to be delisted, we honor it within 24h. No negotiation.

Architecture

AI client ──MCP──▶ FastMCP server ──▶ SQLite + FTS5 ◀── refresh job ──▶ source adapters ──▶ scholarship sites

• Adapters know how to read one site. They produce raw Opportunity objects.
• The query engine knows nothing about sites. It searches the normalized index.

Adding a new source is a 50-line PR. See docs/ADAPTER_GUIDE.md.

Contributing

PRs welcome. The fastest way to help:

• Find a source we don't index yet.
• Read its robots.txt and ToS.
• Send a 50-line PR adding an adapter (RSS) or a 100-line PR (HTML).

See docs/CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.