World News API MCP server

Connect World News API to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and any other MCP client, for your whole team. Metorial adds security, governance, and tracing, and gives everyone one Magic MCP URL to connect.

What you can do with the World News API MCP server

Ask your agent in plain language. Each of these maps to a real tool on the server.

  • Use the top news tool in World News API
  • Use the geo coordinates lookup tool in World News API
  • Use the retrieve articles tool in World News API
  • Use the newspaper front page tool in World News API
  • Use the extract news links tool in World News API
  • Use the search news sources tool in World News API

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.

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, and source country and sentiment when available. 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.

website_to_rss

Website to RSS Feed

Prepare a downloadable RSS feed for a news website or section page.

Connect World News API to your AI client

Every client uses the same Magic MCP URL, and so does any other MCP client. Add it once and sign in with SSO.

  1. Enable World News API in Metorial. In your Metorial portal, enable the World News API MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.
  2. Add a custom connector. Open Customize, then Connectors. Select Add, then Custom, then Web.
  3. Paste your Metorial MCP URL. Name it Metorial, paste your Magic MCP URL (<your-magic-mcp-url>) and continue.
  4. Sign in. Select Add and sign in to load World News API tools.

Run World News API through the Metorial gateway

One governed layer for every app your agents reach, not a separate connector per tool.

  • Give World News API and every other app to your whole team through one MCP gateway, behind your SSO.
  • Scope which teams and agents can use World News API tools with role-based access control, and trace every call.
  • Prefer to run it yourself? Metorial is open source and self-hostable.

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.

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.

WordPress

Create, read, update, and delete WordPress posts and pages. Manage media library items, comments, categories, tags, site users, site metadata, editable site settings, content search, and WordPress.com site statistics. Supports WordPress.com hosted sites via OAuth and self-hosted WordPress sites via application passwords.

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. 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.

Technical notes for World News API

Search and retrieve news articles, browse top stories, extract article content from URLs, discover sources, look up geographic coordinates, and prepare newspaper front page images and RSS feeds for download.

Frequently asked questions

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

  1. How many tools does the World News API MCP server have?
    The World News API MCP server exposes 9 tools, including Top News, Geo Coordinates Lookup, Retrieve Articles. Each one is governed and traced through Metorial.
  2. World News API exposes tools your agents call on demand; it does not publish event triggers yet. Everything still runs through one governed MCP URL.
  3. Any MCP client, including VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, OpenCode and Grok. Each one reaches the World News API MCP server through the same Metorial URL.
  4. Use role-based access control to decide which teams, users, and agents can use World News API and which of its tools they can call.
  5. Yes. Metorial is open source, so you can run the World News API MCP server yourself or use the hosted gateway.

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