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Hottub News MCP Server

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Hottub News is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.

Worldwide news for agents: search, sync and story clusters across outlets and languages. No key.

Uptime history 15 days of history · worst day 99%
15 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
178 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Hottub News missed one check this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of 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 14 min ago.

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

Available tools 9

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

news
get_news_item
Full record for one item id (n_… for news, s_… for sponsored).
news_stats
Item counts over the last 24 hours by kind, language, country and source, plus the current sync cursor.
search_news
Newest-first headlines from worldwide sources, optionally filtered by words, language, country, topic, source, kind and time.
entities
find_entities
Look up Wikidata ids for a name (e.g. "Tesla", "Lagos") with how many items mention each in the last 7 days; pass the id as `entity` to search_news or list_stories.
quote
quote_placement
Quote for placing a labeled, paid press release in the Hottub News mix via Hottub Business. Price varies by topic tier, current topic interest, demand, targeting reach and duration; the response itemizes each factor. Read-only: returns a price; books and charges nothing.
sources
list_sources
Registered sources with their language, country, kind and health. Filter by q (name), country or lang.
stories
list_stories
The most widely covered stories right now (last 48h), each with a neutral multi-source brief when available, outlet count, languages, entities and a representative report. Filter by lang, country, category, entity.
story
get_story
Every item in a story (the `story` id on items, st_…): all outlets and languages covering the same event, newest first.
sync
sync_news
Incremental feed: returns items added after `after`, oldest first, plus a new cursor. Call again with that cursor to get only what is new.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://hottub.news/mcp streamable-http answering 220 ms 14 min ago

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Hottub News — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hottub News do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_entities, get_news_item, get_story, list_sources, list_stories, news_stats and 3 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 Hottub 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 178 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hottub 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 Hottub News need an API key?
No. Hottub News completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Hottub News?
It answers our handshake in 178 ms on average, which is faster than 67% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.