# Google News (MCP server)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/lewisdonovan/google-news-scraper |
| GitHub stars | 384 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | JavaScript |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | npm: google-news-scraper-mcp |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Web & browsing |
| Latest release | v2.7.1 (Feb 20, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 15, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.lewisdonovan/google-news |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

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

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

## Tools

- `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.

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