APITube News MCP Server

- Search for news articles directly from your AI assistant
- Filter news by language, sentiment, topics, and more
- Get breaking news stories
- Research specific topics without leaving your IDE

- No installation or setup required
- Always up-to-date with the latest features
- 24/7 availability and reliability
- No maintenance required
- Just add your API key and start using

Add the MCP server to your AI assistant's configuration. The hosted server speaks HTTP JSON-RPC, so pass your API key in theAuthorizationheader.

For Cursor(~/.cursor/mcp.json, or.cursor/mcp.jsonin a project):

{ "mcpServers": { "apitube-news": { "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }

For Claude Desktop(~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonon macOS). Claude Desktop launches MCP servers as local processes, so bridge the remote server withmcp-remote:

After adding the configuration, restart Cursor or Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect.

Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant natural language questions:

Find me the latest news about artificial intelligence

What are the breaking news stories right now?

The AI assistant can handle complex queries with multiple filters:

Find breaking news about climate change from verified sources published today

Show me long-form articles about SpaceX with images, published in the last week

Find news mentioning Elon Musk and Tesla

The MCP server supports all News API features:

- Search by title/keywords- Find articles matching specific terms
- Language filtering- Filter by language (English, Russian, etc.)
- Sentiment analysis- Filter by positive, negative, or neutral sentiment
- Date ranges- Search within specific time periods
- Media filtering- Find articles with images or videos
- Source quality- Filter by verified or premium sources
- Breaking news- Get only breaking news stories
- Entity search- Find news about specific people, organizations, or locations
- Topic/Category filtering- Filter by predefined topics and categories
- You ask a question in natural language
- The AI assistant converts it to an MCP tool call
- MCP server translates it to a News API request
- Results are returned to the AI assistant
- The AI formats and presents the news to you

- JSON-RPC endpoint:POST https://mcp.apitube.io/
- Protocol version: latest2025-11-25; the server negotiates down to the version your client requests (older versions such as2024-11-05remain supported)
- Server version:1.0.0

The MCP server provides the following tools:

- search_news- Search for news articles with advanced filtering by language, category, sentiment, entities, media content, and more
- suggest- Resolve a name or prefix (e.g. "Tesla") to APITube entity/category/topic/industry IDs, so you can use them in thesearch_newsfilters (entity.id,category.id,topic.id,industry.id)

Ready-made query templates (slash commands in MCP clients), built on top of the tools above:

- monitor_company- Track recent news and sentiment about a company
- topic_sentiment- Break down the sentiment of coverage about a topic
- breaking_news- Surface the latest breaking news, optionally by subject and country
- compare_coverage- Compare volume and sentiment of coverage for two subjects

The MCP server automatically handles authentication using the API key provided in the configuration. The key is securely passed in request headers.

curl -X POST https://mcp.apitube.io/ \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "initialize", "params": { "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "capabilities": {}, "clientInfo": {"name": "test", "version": "1.0.0"} }, "id": 1 }'

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "result": { "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "serverInfo": { "name": "APITube News MCP-Server", "version": "1.0.0" }, "capabilities": { "tools": {"listChanged": true}, "prompts": {"listChanged": true} } } }

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- Try accessing the URL in a browser

curl -X POST https://mcp.apitube.io/ \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "search_news", "arguments": { "title": "Bitcoin", "per_page": 5 } }, "id": 1 }'

You can also use the MCP server as a regular HTTP API without an AI assistant:

curl -X POST https://mcp.apitube.io/ \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "search_news", "arguments": { "title": "AI technology", "language": {"code": "en"}, "is_breaking": 1 } }, "id": 1 }'

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