Connect World News API to AI agents

Connect World News API to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or other AI agents for your entire team. Metorial security, governance, observability, and gives your team a unified Magic MCP url to connect.

Supported Tools

top_news

Top News

Retrieve the top/breaking news headlines for a specific country and language. News articles are clustered by topic — the more sources covering the same story, the higher it ranks. Useful for getting an overview of the day's most important stories.

geo_coordinates

Geo Coordinates Lookup

Retrieve geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) for a location name. Use the returned coordinates with the Search News tool's **locationFilter** parameter to find news mentioning locations within a given radius. Format: `latitude,longitude,radiusKm`.

retrieve_articles

Retrieve Articles

Fetch the full details of one or more news articles by their IDs. Article IDs are obtained from other tools like Search News or Top News. Returns complete article data including title, text, summary, images, videos, authors, publish date, sentiment, and category.

newspaper_front_page

Newspaper Front Page

Retrieve the front page image of a newspaper publication. Access front pages from over 6,000 publications across 125+ countries. Filter by country, publication name, and date. Useful for getting a visual snapshot of what matters in a given country on a given day.

extract_news_links

Extract News Links

Extract news article links from a given news website URL. Useful for discovering all articles published on a particular news source. Optionally filter links by a URL prefix or include sub-domain links.

search_news_sources

Search News Sources

Search for available news sources monitored by the World News API. Check if a specific publication or news website is indexed and available for use in news searches. Returns matching source names, URLs, and languages.

extract_news

Extract News from URL

Extract structured news article data from any given URL. Returns the article's title, full text, images (with captions and dimensions), videos (with summary, duration, thumbnail), publish date, authors, language, source country, and sentiment. Optionally performs named entity analysis on the content.

search_news

Search News

Search and filter news articles from thousands of sources across 210+ countries and 86+ languages. Supports keyword search, semantic entity matching (e.g. `ORG:Tesla`, `PER:Elon Musk`, `Location:USA`), date range filtering, sentiment filtering, geo-located search by coordinates and radius, and filtering by category, language, source country, author, and news source. Results can be sorted by relevance or publish time.

More integrations teams use with World News API

Discord

Send, edit, and delete messages in channels. Manage servers (guilds), channels, roles, members, invites, webhooks, threads, scheduled events, auto moderation rules, audit logs, application commands, and custom guild emojis. Add or remove users, assign roles, kick or ban members, and receive supported message, guild, channel, member, and inbound webhook triggers.

Hacker News

Read and search Hacker News content including stories, comments, jobs, polls, and user profiles. Retrieve curated story listings such as top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job stories. Look up user profiles with karma, submission history, and bios. Perform full-text search across all content with filtering by type, author, date range, and point thresholds. Track recently changed items and profiles via the updates feed. Subscribe to real-time changes on items, story rankings, and profiles via Firebase listeners. All access is read-only with no authentication required.

Dataforseo

Retrieve practical DataForSEO API v3 data for SEO, SEM, ecommerce, business listings, Google Play apps, content analysis, and AI optimization. Supports Google/Bing/Yahoo/YouTube organic SERP live search, Google Ads keyword metrics, DataForSEO Labs keyword and domain intelligence, backlinks, OnPage audits and results, domain analytics, Google Shopping and Amazon Merchant tasks, Business Listings and Google Reviews, Google Play App Data tasks, and AI keyword, LLM mentions, and live LLM response benchmarking.

Firecrawl

Scrape, crawl, search, map, parse, monitor, and extract data from websites and files with Firecrawl v2. Convert pages into markdown, HTML, screenshots, links, summaries, structured JSON, answers, highlights, and media URLs with browser automation, batch jobs, agent jobs, browser sandbox sessions, content monitors, and account usage visibility.

Linkedin

Authenticate LinkedIn members with OpenID Connect, fetch the authenticated member profile, and create self-serve LinkedIn shares with text, article links, and uploaded images. Organization and Community Management workflows should move to a separate slate because LinkedIn restricts combining those products in one app.

Webscrapingai

Scrape and extract data from any website with automatic proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and retries. Fetch full rendered HTML or plain text from web pages. Extract specific page elements using CSS selectors. Ask natural language questions about webpage content and receive AI-generated answers. Extract structured JSON fields from pages using AI-powered field descriptions. Execute custom JavaScript on loaded pages to interact with dynamic content. Emulate desktop, mobile, or tablet devices. Route requests through datacenter or residential proxies with geo-targeting support. Send custom headers and cookies for authenticated scraping. Check account credit balance and usage limits.

Technical notes for World News API

Search, retrieve, and analyze news articles from thousands of sources across 210+ countries and 86+ languages. Filter news by keywords, date, location, category, language, sentiment, and source. Retrieve top/breaking news headlines clustered by story importance. Extract structured article data from any URL. Discover news sources by name, country, or language. Look up newspaper front page images. Convert news websites to RSS feeds. Perform geo-located news searches by coordinates and radius. Access sentiment scores for articles.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about connecting World News API to AI agents with Metorial.

  1. Can Metorial connect World News API to AI agents?
    Yes. Metorial connects AI agents to World News API through a governed integration layer, so teams can use the provider while keeping access controlled and observable.
  2. Metorial is MCP compatible and lets teams expose approved provider tools to MCP-capable agents and clients through a controlled access layer.
  3. Metorial applies policies across users, groups, providers, agents, and individual tools, then records the context around every agent interaction.
  4. Yes. Metorial records provider activity so teams can inspect tool calls, troubleshoot integrations, and give security teams the visibility they need.