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Real-Time News MCP Server

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Real-Time News is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Real-time news and trending topics from major sources

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
459 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Real-Time 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 1 min ago.

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

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.

guardian
search_guardian
Search The Guardian for news articles. Supports filtering by section and date.
top
get_top_news
Get top stories from Hacker News. Returns title, URL, score, author, and comment count.
trending
get_trending
Get trending news combining Hacker News and The Guardian for a given topic.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://news.memoryapi.org/mcp streamable-http answering 458 ms 1 min ago

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Real-Time News — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Real-Time News do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_top_news, get_trending, search_guardian. 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 Real-Time News working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 459 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Real-Time News?
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 Real-Time News need an API key?
No. Real-Time News 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 Real-Time News?
It answers our handshake in 459 ms on average, which is faster than 27% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.