googlenews-mcp
Enables AI agents to read Google News without internet access, providing tools for top headlines, topic search, and news searches.
README
googlenews-mcp
MCP server in front of Google News, so agents without external internet
access can still read the news: the agent talks only to this server, and
this server talks only to news.google.com. It is a news gateway, not a web
proxy — there is deliberately no fetch-arbitrary-URL tool.
- Image:
ghcr.io/robertdwhite/googlenews-mcp, built by CI in this repo. - Transport: MCP streamable HTTP at
/mcp, bearer-gated byMCP_TOKEN./healthzis open. - Upstream: Google News public RSS endpoints (no API key), plus the
batchexecuteRPC used only to decode article redirect URLs.
Tools
| Tool | Does |
|---|---|
top_headlines(language, country, count) |
Front-page top stories |
topic_headlines(topic, ...) |
One section: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SCIENCE, SPORTS, HEALTH |
search_news(query, when, ...) |
Full-text search; supports Google News operators (site:, source:, after:/before:, "...", OR, -) and a when recency window (1h…1m) |
geo_headlines(location, ...) |
Local news for a city/region/country |
decode_urls(urls) |
Resolve news.google.com/rss/articles/... redirect links to real publisher URLs (best-effort, max 10/call) |
Articles come back as {title, url, published, source, source_url, summary, related}; related carries other outlets' coverage when Google clusters a
story.
Config (env)
| Var | Meaning |
|---|---|
MCP_TOKEN |
Bearer token required on /mcp. Unset = unauthenticated (dev only). |
PORT |
Listen port (default 8080). |
GNEWS_LANGUAGE / GNEWS_COUNTRY |
Default locale (en / US). |
GNEWS_TIMEOUT |
Upstream timeout seconds (default 30). |
Run locally
pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py
curl localhost:8080/healthz
Deploy
Manifests live in
whitehouse-rke2 under
apps/ai/googlenews-mcp (namespace googlenews-mcp, endpoint
https://googlenews-mcp.internal.white.fm/mcp, tailnet only).
Notes
decode_urlsuses the same technique as thegooglenewsdecoderpackage; Google changes that endpoint occasionally, so treat it as best-effort. The redirect URLs themselves also work directly in a normal browser.- Google clusters top-stories items; the per-item
relatedlist is parsed out of the RSS description HTML.
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