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Google News data for agents MCP Server

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Google News data for agents is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 14 tools.

12 Google News endpoints. Pay per call in USDC via x402.

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 95%
51 days agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
90 of 91 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
416 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 41

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 21 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

6 Sep 11 tools appeared google_news_business, google_news_decode_article_url, google_news_entertainment and 8 more
6 Sep 3 tools disappeared describe_endpoint, fetch_data, search_endpoints
5 Sep 10 tools appeared appstore_apps, google_maps_place_search, googleplay_apps and 7 more
5 Sep 10 tools disappeared appstore_apps, google_maps_place_search, googleplay_apps and 7 more
5 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for4 times that day fetch_data, search_endpoints
5 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten fetch_data, search_endpoints
21 Aug a tool description was rewritten fetch_data
and 2 more, back to 21 August 2026

Google News data for agents does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 99.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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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 9 min ago.

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

Available tools 14

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

google
google_news_business
Paid ($0.005). Business — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_decode_article_url
Paid ($0.005). Decode article URL — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_entertainment
Paid ($0.005). Entertainment — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_health
Paid ($0.005). Health — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_language_regions
Paid ($0.005). Language regions — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_latest
Paid ($0.005). Latest — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_science
Paid ($0.005). Science — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_search
Paid ($0.005). Search — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_sport
Paid ($0.005). Sport — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_technology
Paid ($0.005). Technology — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_topic
Paid ($0.005). Topic — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
google_news_world
Paid ($0.005). World — Google News. Live data as JSON. Pay with x402 or an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... credits key.
balance
check_balance
Free. Show the remaining credit balance for the API key sent in this connection's Authorization header. Call this before a long run of paid requests.
topup
topup_credits
Paid (the amount you choose, minimum $1). Buy prepaid credits with x402 so later calls skip the per-call payment round trip. With an Authorization: Bearer bby_live_... header on this connection it recharges that key. Without one, the paying wallet becomes the account and a new API key is minted and returned once — store it as a secret, it cannot be recovered.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

appstore_apps
removed 5 Sep 2026
google_maps_place_search
removed 5 Sep 2026
googleplay_apps
removed 5 Sep 2026
google_search
removed 5 Sep 2026
instagram_user_handle
removed 5 Sep 2026
reddit_search_post
removed 5 Sep 2026
tiktok_post_search
removed 5 Sep 2026
twitter_search
removed 5 Sep 2026
yelp_search
removed 5 Sep 2026
youtube_search_video
removed 5 Sep 2026
describe_endpoint
removed 6 Sep 2026
fetch_data
removed 6 Sep 2026
search_endpoints
removed 6 Sep 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://google-news.fetcher.sh/mcp streamable-http answering 392 ms 9 min ago

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Google News data for agents — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Google News data for agents do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_balance, google_news_business, google_news_decode_article_url, google_news_entertainment, google_news_health, google_news_language_regions and 8 more. 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 Google News data for agents working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 416 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Google News data for agents ever remove tools?
Yes. appstore_apps, google_maps_place_search, googleplay_apps, google_search and 9 more are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
How do I connect Google News data for agents?
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 Google News data for agents need an API key?
No. Google News data for agents completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Google News data for agents?
It answers our handshake in 416 ms on average, which is faster than 38% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.