📌Overview

Purpose: The Google News MCP Server aims to provide a seamless interface for accessing Google News search capabilities while leveraging SerpAPI for enhanced functionality.

Overview: This server implementation utilizes the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to offer robust news search functionality, which includes automatic categorization of news results, support for multiple languages, and regional customizations, making it a versatile tool for users across various demographics.

Key Features:

• Flexible Search Options: Comprehensive search capabilities, including query-based and topic searches, and the ability to filter news publications.

• Global Coverage: Supports multiple languages and regions, allowing extensive interaction through adjustable language and country settings.

• Smart Categorization: Automatically organizes news results into relevant topics such as AI & Technology, Business, Science & Research, and Healthcare for easier navigation.

• Multiple Result Types: Capable of handling various types of news content, including headlines, stories, related topics, and menu links.

• Robust Error Handling: Includes comprehensive error management for API errors and invalid inputs, providing informative feedback to users.

• Language Support: Automatically reverts to English for unsupported languages, ensuring accessibility and ease of use.

---

Google News MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI integration. It automatically categorizes news results and supports multiple languages and regions.

✨ Features

🔍 Flexible Search Options

Comprehensive search capabilities including query-based search, topic search, publication filtering, and story coverage.

🌐 Global Coverage

Supports multiple languages and regions through configurable language and country codes.

📊 Smart Categorization

Automatically categorizes news results into topics like AI & Technology, Business, Science & Research, and Healthcare.

🔀 Multiple Result Types

Handles various news result types including headlines, stories, related topics, and menu links.

🛠️ Robust Error Handling

Comprehensive error handling for API failures and invalid inputs, with helpful error messages.

🌍 Language Support

Automatic fallback to English for unsupported language codes with appropriate user notifications.

🔑 SERP API Setup Guide

Before getting started, you'll need to obtain a SERP API key. Here's how:

1. Visit SERP API website and create an account.

2. After registration, go to your Dashboard:

   • Locate the "API Key" section
   • Copy your API key
   • New users get 100 free API calls.

3. API Usage Details:

   • Free tier: 100 searches per month
   • Paid plans start at $50/month for 5000 searches

4. Usage Limits:

   • Request Rate: 2 requests/second
   • IP Restrictions: None
   • Concurrent Requests: 5

🚀 Quick Start

1. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

2. Configure environment: Modify your claude_desktop_config.json with the following content:

   "google-news": {
     "command": "D:\\Program\\nvm\\node.exe",
     "args": [
       "D:\\github_repository\\path_to\\dist\\index.js"
     ],
     "env": {
       "SERP_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
     }
   }
   

3. Build the server:

   npm run build
   

4. Start the server:

   npm start
   

📦 Installation

Installing via Smithery

To install Google News for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @chanmeng666/google-news-server --client claude

Installing via mcp-get

npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @chanmeng666/google-news-server

Manual Installation

# Using npm
npm i @chanmeng666/google-news-server
# or
npm install @chanmeng666/google-news-server

# Using yarn
yarn add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

# Using pnpm
pnpm add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

💻 Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• NodeJS
• MCP

📖 API Documentation

The server implements the Model Context Protocol and exposes a Google News search tool with the following parameters:

• q: Search query string
• gl: Country code (e.g., 'us', 'uk')
• hl: Language code (e.g., 'en', 'es')
• topic_token: Token for specific news topics
• publication_token: Token for specific publishers
• story_token: Token for full coverage of a story
• section_token: Token for specific sections

🔧 Development

# Run in development mode with hot reload
npm run dev

# Run linting
npm run lint

# Run tests
npm run test

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.

🙋‍♀ Author

Created and maintained by Chan Meng.