Pollar News is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 16 tools.
Independent European news from Pollar: search, brief, threads, markets. Read-only, no login.
Uptime history
48 days of history · worst day 93%
48 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
16
Tools
read from the server
323 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check Pollar News every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add pollar-news --transport http https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pollar-news": {
"url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pollar-news]
url = "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pollar-news": {
"url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pollar-news": {
"url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 16
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
live
get_live_moment
Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts either a moment id or a story id; story ids resolve to the latest chapter of that story. This is a point-in-time read rather than a stream. Wait at least 30 seconds before refreshing.
get_live_story
Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active/developing/concluded/dormant) and ordered chapters. Use this when you want the multi-chapter arc, not the latest chapter alone. For a single chapter, use get_live_moment.
list_live_moments
Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments. Use to discover what is breaking now or what ended within the past 24 hours. Each moment carries story metadata (storyId, chapterIndex) when it belongs to a multi-chapter story — chapters of the same continuing narrative are returned in chapter order. Pass a returned id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot.
list_live_stories
Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories. Each story has an umbrella title and one or more chapters ordered by chapter index. Use this when you want to surface the narrative arc — e.g. 'this strike has had three chapters over 48 hours' — rather than each moment in isolation. Pass a returned story id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot (it accepts both story ids and individual moment ids).
categories
list_categories
Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts. Use it to discover valid category dot-paths before filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.
daily
get_daily_brief
Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Use only when the user explicitly asks for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest. Do not use it for questions about a subject, person, place, or country; use search_news instead. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.
entity
get_entity
Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug. Set withTimeline to include recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.
event
get_event
Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, and a canonical pollar.news url to cite.
fetch
fetch
Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.
markets
get_markets
Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. With no arguments, returns the quote catalogue. Pass an exact catalogue symbol for detail and an optional range for history.
news
search_news
Searches Pollar's news archive using semantic and keyword matching. Use for any subject-specific query, including a person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland). Put the subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. For current headlines with no subject or place, use list_top_news.
render
render_news_list
Renders selected stories already returned by search_news, list_top_news, or search. Call one of those tools first, then pass up to 10 relevant results without changing their titles or canonical URLs.
search
search
Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Use for queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country; put that subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Pass an id to fetch to read the article.
thread
get_thread
Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and recent chronicle entries with citations. Set withHistory=true to also include how the thesis evolved over time. Returns the thread detail with a canonical url.
threads
list_threads
Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Use to discover long-running topics. Pass a returned id to get_thread for detail.
top
list_top_news
Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Use for broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country. For a subject or geographic request, use search_news instead. Optionally filters by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; call list_categories first when the category is unknown.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 293 ms | 0 min ago |
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Pollar News — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Pollar News do?
It exposes 16 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, get_daily_brief, get_entity, get_event, get_live_moment, get_live_story and 10 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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Is Pollar 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 323 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Pollar 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 Pollar News need an API key?
No. Pollar News completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 16 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Pollar News?
It answers our handshake in 323 ms on average, which is faster than 47% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.