# NewsMCP NewsMCP provides live news search for AI agents through MCP or a plain REST API. It groups coverage of the same story into deduplicated events so agents can assess news without filling their context windows with near-duplicate articles. - Findings24: - Website: - Pricing: Freemium - Categories: AI Search API, MCP Tools ## What is NewsMCP? NewsMCP is a live news search service for AI agents. It returns deduplicated **story events** rather than a flat article list, grouping coverage of the same story and attaching corroboration data such as independent newsroom counts, source counts, and event size. It supports a stateless streamable HTTP MCP endpoint and a plain REST API. Agents can use it for recent news questions, claim-coverage checks, trend discovery, and monitoring a company or topic across a short time window. It is not a general web search tool: article body text is not returned, and older or non-news queries may fall outside its day-based index. ## What can NewsMCP do? ### Deduplicated story events Coverage of the same story is grouped into one event instead of producing many near-identical article rows. Events include corroboration fields such as newsrooms, source\_count, and size. ### MCP and REST access Connect through the stateless streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at mcp.newsmcp.com/mcp or query the REST twin at api.newsmcp.com/v0/news. The REST surface returns the same data without a JSON-RPC envelope. ### Five focused tools The service exposes news search, get\_story, check\_coverage, check\_limits, and check\_health tools. get\_story can expand an event and optionally return every source link, while check\_coverage separates independent reporting from reprints. ### Agent-oriented output formats MCP responses can be requested as markdown, text, or JSON, with markdown as the default. REST responses are always JSON, making the REST surface suitable for direct programmatic parsing. ### Keyless start with optional authentication No key or signup is required to begin. An API key raises the documented lookback, per-call story allowance, and hourly call budget; the live check\_limits tool reports the limits actually applied to the caller. ## Use Cases ### Recent event discovery An AI assistant can search for what happened on a topic in the last day or several days, then present one event per story rather than repeating every outlet's version. ### Claim coverage checks For a statement or developing report, an agent can use check\_coverage to distinguish independent newsrooms from domains that only reprinted the same material. ### Company or topic monitoring A monitoring workflow can search recent coverage of a company, person, or topic, rank events by corroboration, and identify developments worth further investigation. ### News-to-source research An agent can use NewsMCP to find and rank a story, expand the selected event with get\_story, and then fetch one of the returned source URLs separately when article text or primary reporting is required. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Does NewsMCP return full article text? No. NewsMCP returns story events and source links, not article body text. Use a separate fetch tool to read a source URL after finding the relevant event. ### Can I use NewsMCP without an API key? Yes. The service is keyless to start and does not require signup for initial use. Keyless access has lower limits, and datacenter or cloud IPs are blocked without a key. ### What is the default time window? The default search window is 24 hours. The keyless envelope provides a seven-day lookback, while the documented free key raises the lookback to 14 days. Actual ceilings should be checked with check\_limits. ### Are event IDs permanent? No. event\_id values are derived from cluster membership and can change between searches, so they should not be treated as durable identifiers or stored as permanent records. ### Do MCP and REST use the same parameters? They provide the same underlying news data but have different parameter conventions. For example, MCP uses from\_ and supports subject and response\_format, while REST uses from and always returns JSON. The documentation provides the full mapping. ## Quick Facts - **Category**: AI developer tool; news search API - **Primary users**: AI agents and applications that need recent news context - **Access methods**: Stateless streamable HTTP MCP and REST API - **MCP endpoint**: https://mcp.newsmcp.com/mcp - **REST endpoint**: https://api.newsmcp.com/v0/news - **Keyless allowance**: 7-day lookback, up to 20 stories per call, 20 calls per hour; subject to live limits