Pollar News is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 24 tools.
Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.
Uptime history
91 days of history · worst day 84%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
24
Tools
read from the server
196 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
What changed 39
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 5 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
5 Oct
23 tool descriptions were rewritten26 times that day
get_daily_brief, get_entity, get_event and 20 more
5 Oct
8 tools appeared
get_explainer, get_film, get_sound_episode and 5 more
5 Oct
3 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_markets, get_thread, news_near
5 Oct
a tool changed version2 times that day
and 4 more, back to 5 October 2026
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 8 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add pollar-news --transport http https://mcp.pollar.news/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
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
{
"servers": {
"pollar-news": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 24
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 a moment id or a story id; a story id resolves to that story's latest chapter. The result is a point-in-time read, not a stream.
get_live_story
Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. Returns the whole multi-chapter arc; a single chapter comes from get_live_moment.
list_live_moments
Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours. A moment that belongs to a multi-chapter story carries its storyId and chapterIndex, and chapters of one story come in chapter order. get_live_moment takes a returned id for the current snapshot.
list_live_stories
Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a story has unfolded (for example, a strike with three chapters over 48 hours) rather than single moments. get_live_moment takes a returned story id for the current snapshot; it accepts story ids and moment ids.
news
news_near
Lists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km. Accepts the place name in English, Polish, German or French, with an optional country for ambiguous names. A whole country, a region or a topic is a job for search_news.
search_news
Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland); the subject or place goes in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Current headlines with no subject or place come from list_top_news.
categories
list_categories
Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for 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. Intended only for explicit requests for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest; questions about a subject, person, place, or country belong to search_news. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.
entity
get_entity
Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists 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, links to the same story in other languages, and a canonical pollar.news url. When explainer is set, get_explainer returns a narrated walk-through of the story; when film is set, get_film returns the film's transcript.
explainer
get_explainer
Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns the question it answers, the narration beat by beat, and each beat's visual data: a map with places and coordinates, a dated timeline (entries marked next are what comes next), a key figure with its source, a bar chart, or a quote. Suited to questions about why a story matters. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.
explainers
list_explainers
Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question behind it, with maps, timelines, key figures, charts and quotes. get_explainer takes a returned eventSlug for the content.
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.
film
get_film
Fetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken from the reviewed captions. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.
films
list_films
Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its event when one is attached. get_film takes a returned slug for the transcript.
markets
get_markets
Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments it returns the quote catalogue; with an exact catalogue symbol, that quote's detail, and with a range, its price history.
render
render_news_list
Shows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list. Titles and canonical URLs are displayed exactly as given.
search
search
Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Suited to queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country, with that subject or place as the query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. fetch takes a returned id and returns the article.
sound
get_sound_episode
Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with each speaker named. Episodes still in the members-only window come without a transcript. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.
sounds
list_sounds
Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access 'early' are for Pollar members until publicAt. get_sound_episode takes a returned slug for the transcript and sources.
thread
get_thread
Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with limit). With withHistory, it also includes the last ten changes to the thesis. 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. Suited to discovering long-running topics; get_thread takes a returned id for the detail.
top
list_top_news
Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country; subject and geographic requests belong to search_news. Can filter by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; valid paths come from list_categories.
trending
list_trending_entities
Lists the people, organisations or places most present in Pollar's recent coverage, ranked by recent mentions. Suited to questions like who is in the news this week; get_entity takes a returned person or organization slug for the profile and timeline.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 218 ms | 8 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 24 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: fetch, get_daily_brief, get_entity, get_event, get_explainer, get_film and 18 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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What is Pollar News mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around live and news. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Pollar 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 196 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 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 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 24 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 196 ms on average, which is faster than 68% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.