NewsMCP — World news for AI agents

newsmcp.io  •  integrations  •  REST API

Real-time news events, clustered by AI from hundreds of sources, classified by topic and geography, ranked by importance.

Free. No API key. One command to install.

Coverage

12 topics — politics economy technology science health environment sports culture crime military education society

30 regions — 6 continents and 24 countries. Filter by europe, asia, united-states, germany, japan, ukraine, and more.

Hundreds of sources — Articles clustered into events in real-time, ranked by source count and impact score.

Integrations

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "newsmcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@newsmcp/server"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code Plugin

/plugin marketplace add pranciskus/newsmcp
/plugin install newsmcp

Claude Code MCP

claude mcp add newsmcp -- npx -y @newsmcp/server

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "newsmcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@newsmcp/server"]
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add to MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "newsmcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@newsmcp/server"]
    }
  }
}

OpenAI Codex

codex mcp add newsmcp -- npx -y @newsmcp/server

Or add to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.newsmcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@newsmcp/server"]

Gemini CLI

Add to ~/.gemini/settings.json (or project-local .gemini/settings.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "newsmcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@newsmcp/server"]
    }
  }
}

OpenCode

opencode mcp add

Or add to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json (or project-local .opencode/opencode.json):

{
  "mcp": {
    "newsmcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "enabled": true,
      "command": ["npx", "-y", "@newsmcp/server"]
    }
  }
}

Smithery

npx -y @smithery/cli install @newsmcp/server --client claude

OpenClaw Plugin

openclaw plugins install @newsmcp/openclaw

No configuration needed — works out of the box. See `@newsmcp/openclaw` for options.

OpenClaw Skill

clawhub install newsmcp-skill

Lightweight alternative — a single SKILL.md that teaches the agent to call the REST API via curl. No dependencies. See `newsmcp-skill` on ClawHub.

MCP Tools

Four tools. That's the interface.

`get_news`

Top events happening right now. Filter by topic, region, time window.

Sort options: -sources_count, -impact_score, -last_seen_at, -entries_count (prefix - for descending)

`get_news_detail`

Full details on a single even