Google News MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI integration. Automatically categorizes news results and supports multiple languages and regions.

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🔍 Flexible Search Options

Comprehensive search capabilities including query-based search, topic search, publication filtering and story coverage.

🌐 Global Coverage

Supports multiple languages and regions through configurable language and country codes.

📊 Smart Categorization

Automatically categorizes news results into topics like AI & Technology, Business, Science & Research, and Healthcare.

🔀 Multiple Result Types

Handles various news result types including headlines, stories, related topics and menu links.

🛠️ Robust Error Handling

Comprehensive error handling for API failures and invalid inputs, with helpful error messages.

🌍 Language Support

Automatic fallback to English for unsupported language codes with appropriate user notifications.

Before getting started, you'll need to obtain a SERP API key. Here's how:

1. Visit SERP API website and create an account
2. After registration, go to your Dashboard:
   • Locate the "API Key" section
   • Copy your API key
   • New users get 100 free API calls
3. API Usage Details:
   • Free tier: 100 searches per month
   • Paid plans start at $50/month for 5000 searches
   • Billing based on successful API calls
   • Multiple payment methods: Credit Card, PayPal, etc.
4. Usage Limits:
   • Request Rate: 2 requests/second
   • IP Restrictions: None
   • Concurrent Requests: 5
   • Response Cache Time: 1 hour

Click to view my configuration solution 👉 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/issues/76

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. Build the server:

npm run build

3. Configure environment: Modify your claude_desktop_config.json with the following content (adjust paths according to your system):

    "google-news": {
      "command": "D:\\Program\\nvm\\node.exe",
      "args": [
        "D:\\github_repository\\path_to\\dist\\index.js"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SERP_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }

4. Start the server:

npm start

Troubleshooting

1. Invalid API Key

• Verify API key configuration in claude_desktop_config.json
• Confirm API key is active in SERP API dashboard

2. Request Failures

• Check network connectivity
• Verify API call quota hasn't been exceeded
• Validate request parameter format

Running evals

The evals package loads an mcp client that then runs the index.ts file, so there is no need to rebuild between tests. You can load environment variables by prefixing the npx command. Full documentation can be found here.

OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key  npx mcp-eval src/evals/evals.ts src/index.ts

Installing via Smithery

To install Google News for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @chanmeng666/google-news-server --client claude

Installing via mcp-get

npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @chanmeng666/google-news-server

If you are using an old version of Windows PowerShell, you may need to run Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process before this command.

Manual Installation

@chanmeng666/google-news-server

npm i @chanmeng666/google-news-server
npm install @chanmeng666/google-news-server

yarn add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

pnpm add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

The server implements the Model Context Protocol and exposes a Google News search tool with the following parameters:

• q: Search query string
• gl: Country code (e.g., 'us', 'uk')
• hl: Language code (e.g., 'en', 'es')
• topic_token: Token for specific news topics
• publication_token: Token for specific publishers
• story_token: Token for full coverage of a story
• section_token: Token for specific sections

npm run dev

npm run lint

npm run test

This project is MIT licensed.

Created and maintained by Chan Meng.