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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✨ Features

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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.

🔑 SERP API Setup Guide

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

👩‍🔧 Solution for MCP Servers Connection Issues with NVM/NPM

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

🚀 Quick Start

1. Install dependencies:

npm install

2. 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"
      }
    }

3. Build the server:

npm run build

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

📦 Installation

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 

# Using npm
npm i @chanmeng666/google-news-server
# or
npm install @chanmeng666/google-news-server
 
# Using yarn
yarn add @chanmeng666/google-news-server
 
# Using pnpm
pnpm add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

💻 Tech Stack

📖 API Documentation

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

🔧 Development

# Run in development mode with hot reload
npm run dev
 
# Run linting
npm run lint
 
# Run tests
npm run test

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.

🙋‍♀ Author

Created and maintained by Chan Meng .