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UK Data: News and feeds MCP Server

answering

UK Data: News and feeds is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Worldwide news search by keyword and date, Hacker News, and any RSS or Atom feed as JSON

Uptime history 69 hours of history
69 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
118 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add news-feeds --transport http https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.news-feeds]
url = "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news-feeds": {
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "news-feeds": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

hacker
hacker_news
Top, new or best Hacker News stories, or search stories by keyword. (cost: 1 credit)
news
news_search
Latest news articles on any topic, newest first, with source, date, link and summary (Bing News, GDELT as backup). For current events, company news and what is happening now. (cost: 1 credit)
rss
rss_read
Read an RSS or Atom feed as JSON items. (cost: 1 credit)

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/news-feeds streamable-http answering 73 ms 9 min ago

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UK Data: News and feeds — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can UK Data: News and feeds do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hacker_news, news_search, rss_read. 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 UK Data: News and feeds 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 118 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect UK Data: News and feeds?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does UK Data: News and feeds need an API key?
No. UK Data: News and feeds completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is UK Data: News and feeds?
It answers our handshake in 118 ms on average, which is faster than 91% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.