Pressbox News Wire MCP Server

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Pressbox News Wire is answering right now. Last checked 14 min ago. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

Search published Pressbox press releases and newsrooms with original source links and dates.

Uptime history 63 hours of history

63 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

184 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 29 Oct 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pressbox News Wire 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 14 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pressbox-news-wire --transport http https://pressbox.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://pressbox.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pressbox-news-wire]
url = "https://pressbox.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pressbox-news-wire": {
      "url": "https://pressbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "pressbox-news-wire": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pressbox.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

pressbox

get_pressbox_newsroom

Find an issuer's public Pressbox newsroom and recent published releases.

get_pressbox_public_capabilities

Explain exactly what Pressbox exposes to AI and what requires consent. These capabilities apply only to this public, read-only connector. Creating or distributing releases requires an entirely separate OAuth-protected application and the user's explicit approval.

get_pressbox_release

Fetch one already-published release by its Pressbox public release ID. Returns verified public source text, a canonical URL and factual issuer metadata. It cannot retrieve drafts, private contacts or journalist lists.

search_pressbox_news

Search public Pressbox press releases by topic, category or issuer name. Read-only first-party news retrieval. Result pages can be independently inspected and cited. Search does NOT imply any other assistant has cited it.

latest

latest_pressbox_news

List the latest public Pressbox releases; optionally select a category.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://pressbox.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	190 ms	14 min ago

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Pressbox News Wire — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Pressbox News Wire do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_pressbox_newsroom, get_pressbox_public_capabilities, get_pressbox_release, latest_pressbox_news, search_pressbox_news. 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 Pressbox News Wire 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 184 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Pressbox News Wire?

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 Pressbox News Wire need an API key?

No. Pressbox News Wire completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Pressbox News Wire?

It answers our handshake in 184 ms on average, which is faster than 75% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Pressbox News Wire open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.