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Google News

Google News is an MCP server that adds web browsing tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Search Google News, get top stories and read articles. It has 384 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp.

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Install Google News

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-news-scraper-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio google-news -- npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-news-scraper-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "google-news": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "google-news-scraper-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Tools (3)

Parsed from the Tools section of the README; check the repository for the current list.

  • search_news

    Search for articles on any keyword, with a timeframe (12h, 7d, 6m), language and country.

  • top_stories

    The current top stories for a country and language, or the stories on a Google News topic page.

  • get_article_text

    Fetch an article URL and return its readable body text, title, byline and publish time.

About Google News

Give any AI agent live news. This Model Context Protocol server lets Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients search Google News, read the top stories in any country, and pull the text of an article.

  • google-news
  • google-news-scraper
  • news-scraper
  • news-articles
  • web-scraper
  • web-crawler
  • news-crawler
  • google-crawler
  • ai-tools
  • forecasting

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FAQ

Google News FAQ

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How do I install the Google News MCP server?

Add the command npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Google News free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Google News actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 15, 2026. The latest release is v2.7.1, published Feb 20, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.