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APITube News MCP Server

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APITube News is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 23 Aug 2026.

Real-time news search across 500,000+ sources in 60+ languages with sentiment and entities.

Uptime history 17 days of history · worst day 99%
17 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
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227 ms
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last commit 23 Aug 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check APITube News every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add news --transport http https://mcp.apitube.io/
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.news]
url = "https://mcp.apitube.io/"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

news
search_news
Search news articles using APITube News API with comprehensive filtering. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUERY CONSTRUCTION: 1. DO NOT use dots in parameter names directly in the root object. Use nested objects instead. 2. The system will automatically convert nested objects to dot notation for the API. Example: Use { language: { code: "en" } } instead of { "language.code": "en" }. 3. For multiple values in one parameter, use COMMA separation (e.g., "en,ru,fr" for multiple languages). 4. Integer filters (has_*, is_*) accept ONLY 0 or 1 (e.g., has_image=1, is_duplicate=0). 5. Date format: ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ). 6. Sentiment scores range: -1.0 (negative) to 1.0 (positive). 7. Default sorting: published_at DESC (newest first). 8. Unknown parameters are rejected with an error (-32602) instead of being silently ignored — check the spelling against the list below. 9. By default the response returns id, title, href, published_at, description and source.domain. The article body is NOT included — request it explicitly with fl (e.g. fl: "title,href,body"). AVAILABLE PARAMETERS: ### Content Search - title: Search by article title (supports up to 3 keywords with comma separation) IMPORTANT: a title search covers at most a 31-day published_at window. Omit the dates and the last 31 days are searched; pass a range wider than 31 days and the call fails with 400 ER0110. To cover a longer period, make one call per month-sized window. - ignore: { title: "keyword" } - Exclude articles with specific titles ### Languages (60+ supported) - language: { code: "en,ru,fr" } - Filter by language codes (up to 3) - ignore: { language: { code: "fr" } } - Exclude specific languages ### Categories (IPTC taxonomy) - category: { id: "medtop:04000000" } - Filter by category ID (up to 3) - ignore: { category: { id: "315" } } - Exclude categories ### Topics - topic: { id: "crypto_news,climate_change" } - Filter by topic ID (up to 3) - ignore: { topic: { id: "2" } } - Exclude topics ### Industries - industry: { id: "246771,246772" } - Filter by industry ID (up to 3) - ignore: { industry: { id: "246772" } } - Exclude industries ### Entities - entity: { id: "1278268,1282301" } - Filter by entity ID (up to 3) - ignore: { entity: { id: "315" } } - Exclude entities ### Persons - person: { name: "Elon Musk,Tim Cook" } - Filter by person name (up to 3) - ignore: { person: { name: "John Doe" } } - Exclude persons ### Locations - location: { name: "Tokyo,New York" } - Filter by location (up to 3) - ignore: { location: { name: "Paris" } } - Exclude locations ### Organizations - organization: { name: "Tesla,Apple,Google" } - Filter by organization (up to 3) - ignore: { organization: { name: "Microsoft" } } - Exclude organizations ### Disasters - disaster: { name: "Earthquake,Tsunami" } - Filter by disaster type (up to 3) - ignore: { disaster: { name: "Flood" } } - Exclude disasters ### Diseases - disease: { name: "COVID-19,Influenza" } - Filter by disease (up to 3) - ignore: { disease: { name: "Flu" } } - Exclude diseases ### Events - event: { name: "Olympics,World Cup" } - Filter by event (up to 3) - ignore: { event: { name: "Super Bowl" } } - Exclude events ### Brands - brand: { name: "Nike,Adidas" } - Filter by brand (up to 3) - ignore: { brand: { name: "Puma" } } - Exclude brands ### Authors - author: { id: "123,456" } - Filter by author ID (up to 3) - author: { name: "John Doe,Jane Smith" } - Filter by author name (up to 3) - ignore: { author: { id: "789" } } - Exclude author IDs - ignore: { author: { name: "Bob Jones" } } - Exclude author names - has_author: 1 - Articles with attributed authors (0 for without) ### Sentiment Analysis - sentiment: { overall: { score: { min: 0.5, max: 1.0 } } } - Sentiment score range - sentiment: { overall: { polarity: "positive" | "negative" | "neutral" } } - Sentiment polarity - sentiment: { title: { score: { min: -1.0, max: 1.0 } } } - Title sentiment - sentiment: { body: { score: { min: -1.0, max: 1.0 } } } - Body sentiment - sentiment: { mixed: 1 } - Articles with mixed sentiment (title/body differ) - sentiment: { consistent: 1 } - Articles with consistent sentiment ### Media Content - media: { images: { count: { min: 2, max: 10 } } } - Filter by image count - media: { videos: { count: { min: 1 } } } - Filter by video count - media: { images: { width: { min: 1200, max: 1920 } } } - Filter by image width - media: { images: { height: { min: 800, max: 1080 } } } - Filter by image height - has_image: 1 - Articles with at least one image - has_video: 1 - Articles with at least one video - has_hq_images: 1 - Articles with high-quality images (width >= 1200px) - is_media_rich: 1 - Articles with both images and videos ### Source Filtering - source: { id: "314,315" } - Filter by source ID (up to 3) - source: { domain: "cnn.com,bbc.com" } - Filter by domain (up to 3) - source: { country: { code: "us,uk,de" } } - Filter by country (up to 3) - source: { rank: { opr: { min: 0.5, max: 0.9 } } } - OpenPageRank range (0-7) - source: { bias: "left,center,right" } - Filter by media bias (up to 3) - ignore: { source: { id: "315" } } - Exclude source IDs - ignore: { source: { domain: "example.com" } } - Exclude domains - ignore: { source: { country: { code: "fr" } } } - Exclude countries - ignore: { source: { bias: "left" } } - Exclude biases - is_premium_source: 1 - Premium sources (OPR >= 6) - is_verified_source: 1 - Verified sources (OPR >= 5, not duplicates) ### Date/Time Filtering - published_at: { start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-01-31" } - Date range - published_at: "2024-09-26" - Specific date - Supported formats: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ, DD-MM-YYYY, RFC3339 - Max 31 days between start and end WHEN the same call also searches titles (title, ignore.title patterns or query); a wider range returns 400 ER0110. Without a title filter the range is unlimited. - An open-ended start ({ start: "2024-01-01" } with no end) runs to the current time, so with a title filter it exceeds the window too — always pair an archive start with an end date. ### Sorting - sort: { by: "published_at" | "created_at" | "source.rank.opr" | "read_time" | "sentiment.overall.score" | "sentiment.title.score" | "sentiment.body.score" | "media.images.count" | "media.videos.count" | "media.images.width.min" | "media.images.width.max" | "media.images.height.min" | "media.images.height.max" | "media_richness" | "relevance" | "engagement" | "quality" | "controversy" | "trust" } - sort: { order: "asc" | "desc" } - Advanced sorting: relevance (search ranking), engagement (viral potential), quality (editorial), controversy (polarization), trust (credibility) ### Pagination - page: 1 - Page number (default: 1) - per_page: 10 - Results per page (default: 10). One response carries at most 25 articles, so a larger per_page is clamped to 25 — use page to walk through more. ### Content Filters - is_duplicate: 0 - Exclude duplicates (0=unique, 1=include duplicates) - is_paywall: 0 - Exclude paywalled content (0=free, 1=paywall) - is_breaking: 1 - Breaking news only - read_time: { min: 1, max: 10 } - Filter by reading time (minutes) - is_long_read: 1 - Articles with read time >= 5 minutes - is_short_read: 1 - Articles with read time < 3 minutes ### Field Selection (fl) - Default (no fl): id, title, href, published_at, description, source.domain — body excluded - fl: "id,title,source.name,published_at" - Return only specific fields - fl: "title,href,body" - Ask for the full article text explicitly when you need to read it - Supports nested fields with dot notation: source.name, sentiment.overall.score ### Faceting - facet: true - Enable faceting - facet: { field: "source.id,language.id,sentiment.overall.polarity", limit: 20, mincount: 5 } - Supported facet fields: source.id, source.country.id, source.bias, category.id, topic.id, industry.id, language.id, author.id, sentiment.*.polarity, is_duplicate, is_free, is_important, media.images.count, media.videos.count, read_time, published.year, published.month, published.day_of_week, published.hour ### Range Faceting - facet: { range: { field: "published_at", start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-12-31", gap: "1MONTH" } } - facet: { range: { field: "sentiment.overall.score", start: -1, end: 1, gap: 0.25 } } - Date gaps: 1HOUR, 1DAY, 1WEEK, 1MONTH, 1YEAR - Numeric gaps: 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10 ### Highlighting - hl: true - Enable highlighting - hl: { fl: "title,description,body", fragsize: 300, snippets: 5, tag: { pre: "<mark>", post: "</mark>" } } - Auto-expands search terms using synonyms and morphology QUERY BUILDING EXAMPLES: - Basic search: {title: "Bitcoin", language: {code: "en"}} - Sentiment analysis: {organization: {name: "Tesla"}, sentiment: {overall: {polarity: "positive"}}} - High-quality sources: {source: {rank: {opr: {min: 0.7}}}, is_verified_source: 1} - Date range (no title filter, so any width): {published_at: {start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-12-31"}} - Title search over an archive month: {title: "Bitcoin", published_at: {start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-01-31"}} - Multiple filters: {title: "AI", organization: {name: "Google,Microsoft"}, language: {code: "en"}, is_breaking: 1} - With media: {has_image: 1, media: {images: {count: {min: 2}}}} - Sorted by engagement: {sort: {by: "engagement", order: "desc"}} - With faceting: {facet: true, facet: {field: "source.id,language.id", limit: 10}} - With highlighting: {title: "innovation", hl: true, hl: {fl: "title,body"}} - Breaking news: {is_breaking: 1, sort: {by: "published_at"}} - Long-form quality: {is_long_read: 1, sort: {by: "quality", order: "desc"}}
suggest
suggest
Resolve a name or prefix to APITube taxonomy IDs so you can use them in the `search_news` tool's filters. The `search_news` tool's most precise filters require IDs you cannot guess: - entity.id — numeric (persons, organizations, locations, brands, events...) - category.id — IPTC slug, e.g. "medtop:04000000" - topic.id — slug - industry.id — numeric Use this tool FIRST to look those IDs up, then pass them into `search_news`. USAGE: - type: which taxonomy to autocomplete — one of "entities", "categories", "topics", "industries". - prefix: the name (or its beginning) to search, e.g. "Tesla", "Elon", "spo". Returns an array of matches; take the `id` of the best match and put it into `search_news`: suggest({ type: "entities", prefix: "Tesla" }) → [{ id: 12345, name: "Tesla, Inc.", ... }] search_news({ entity: { id: "12345" } })

Endpoints

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https://mcp.apitube.io/ streamable-http answering 418 ms 5 min ago

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APITube News — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can APITube News do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: search_news, suggest. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is APITube News working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 227 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect APITube News?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does APITube News need an API key?
No. APITube News completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is APITube News?
It answers our handshake in 227 ms on average, which is faster than 68% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is APITube News open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.