Digital in Asia’s analysis, market trackers, free research reports and glossary are open to AI assistants, agents and analysts. You can connect us to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other tools in about a minute, or download the data directly. It’s free to use with attribution.
https://mcp.digitalinasia.com/mcp Streamable HTTP · no sign-in · freeConnect Digital in Asia to your AI assistant
Claude (claude.ai, desktop and mobile)
Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it “Digital in Asia” and paste the server URL above. Then ask Claude anything about Asia’s digital economy and it can pull answers, figures and links straight from DIA.
ChatGPT
On plans that support custom connectors, turn on developer mode under Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings, then create a new connector with the server URL above and no authentication.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http digital-in-asia https://mcp.digitalinasia.com/mcpCursor, VS Code and other MCP clients
Add this to your MCP configuration (for example .cursor/mcp.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"digital-in-asia": { "url": "https://mcp.digitalinasia.com/mcp" }
}
}In VS Code, use .vscode/mcp.json with "servers" and "type": "http".
What your assistant can ask for
| Tool | What it returns | Try asking |
|---|---|---|
search_dia | Semantic search across our articles, trackers, reports and glossary: ask in plain English and get the most relevant passages, with links and dates | “What has Digital in Asia written about TikTok Shop in Indonesia?” |
get_country_profile | A market overview: the country hub summary, that country’s rows from every tracker and the most relevant coverage | “Give me DIA’s profile of Vietnam’s digital market” |
compare_markets | Two or more markets side by side from our tracker data, optionally on one topic | “Compare Indonesia and Vietnam on ecommerce” |
get_tracker | The data tables from our market trackers | “Show me DIA’s AI policy tracker for Asia” |
list_reports | All free research reports | “What research does Digital in Asia publish?” |
get_report_summary | Key findings and sections from a report, plus the download link | “Summarise DIA’s fintech and digital payments report” |
get_glossary_term | Definitions from our glossary of Asia’s digital economy | “What is QRIS?” |
get_latest_articles | Our newest analysis, optionally by topic | “What’s new on Digital in Asia this week?” |
Ready-made prompts
Clients that support MCP prompts will also see brief_me_on_market, compare_markets and whats_new, which walk your assistant through a full briefing using the tools above.
Every answer includes a link back to the source page on digitalinasia.com and an as-of date, so your assistant can cite it properly.
Ask a plain question
No MCP client? Send a question to https://digitalinasia.com/ask?query=your+question and get the most relevant Digital in Asia pages back as JSON, with schema.org metadata (an NLWeb-style endpoint).
Download the data
- Full data export (JSON): reports, tracker tables, glossary and topic hubs in one file, refreshed as we publish.
- Each tracker as CSV or JSON:
- llms.txt: a plain-text guide to the site for AI tools.
How to cite Digital in Asia
Our content and data are free to use, including in AI products, as long as you credit us and link to the page you used:
Source: Digital in Asia (digitalinasia.com), with a link to the article, tracker or report.
For search engines and AI crawlers
We don’t block AI crawlers. Our robots.txt allows search indexing, AI answers and AI training, and our sitemap lists every page we want found. Trackers carry Dataset markup with links to their CSV and JSON files.
Bulk or commercial use
If you want higher volumes, full history, or to build DIA data into a commercial product, get in touch.