📰 Google News MCP

Give any AI agent live news. This Model Context Protocol server lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients search Google News, read the top stories in any country, and pull the text of an article.

It's built on google-news-scraper, so there's no API key, no account and no headless browser. Results come with the real publisher URL rather than a Google redirect link.

Tools

Tool	What it does
search_news	Search for articles on any keyword, with a timeframe (12h, 7d, 6m), language and country. Supports Google operators such as quotes, OR and site:.
top_stories	The current top stories for a country and language, or the stories on a Google News topic page.
get_article_text	Fetch an article URL and return its readable body text, title, byline and publish time.

Each article comes back as { title, link, source, sourceUrl, datetime }.

Setup

Your MCP client starts the server itself, so there's nothing to keep running.

Claude Desktop

Download google-news.mcpb and double-click it, or drag it into Settings → Extensions. Claude Desktop installs it with its own Node.js, so you don't need Node installed.

Claude Code

/plugin install google-news --marketplace lewisdonovan/google-news-scraper

Or add the server directly with claude mcp add google-news -- npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp.

Cursor, Windsurf and most other clients

Requires Node.js 20.19 or later.

Add this to the client's MCP config (.cursor/mcp.json, claude_desktop_config.json, and so on):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "google-news-scraper-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code

code --add-mcp '{"name":"google-news","command":"npx","args":["-y","google-news-scraper-mcp"]}'

Example prompts

• "What's the latest news on Nvidia from the past day?"
• "Summarise today's top stories in Germany, in English."
• "Find coverage of our product launch on techcrunch.com this month and read the most recent article."

Notes

• Google rate-limits bursts of requests from one IP. The scraper retries with backoff, but very heavy use can still get temporarily blocked.
• get_article_text reads the page's HTML directly, so paywalled pages and sites that only render with JavaScript may return an error.

Privacy

The server collects and stores nothing. It sends your queries to Google News and fetches the article pages you ask it to read. See the privacy policy.

License

MIT