About Google News Trends MCP
Google News Trends MCP is an MCP server published by jmanek in the Developer Tools category: mCP server for Google News and Google Trends.
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uvx mcp-trendpulsepip install mcp-trendpulseThis server has no ConduID identity, so agent calls to it are not receipted. Pin the version you install and review the source before granting it credentials.
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Google News Trends MCP
An MCP server that slurps data from Google News and Google Trends RSS endpoints, optionally distills it with LLM/NLP, and barfs out structured results.
Features
- Trawl Google News RSS feeds for articles based on keyword, location, topic
- Ingest top news stories from Google News
- Snag trending search terms from Google Trends based on geographic input
- Plug in LLM/NLP pipelines to condense article payloads and extract key concepts
Installation
Using uv/uvx (recommended)
When using uv no specific installation is needed. We will
use uvx to directly run google-news-trends-mcp.
Using PIP
pip install google-news-trends-mcp
After installation, you can run it as a script using:
python -m google_news_trends_mcp
Configuration
Configure for Claude.app
Add to your Claude settings:
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
Configure for VS Code
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
}
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
}
Tools
The following MCP tools are available:
| Tool Name | Description |
|---|---|
| get_news_by_keyword | Search for news using specific keywords. |
| get_news_by_location | Retrieve news relevant to a particular location. |
| get_news_by_topic | Get news based on a chosen topic. |
| get_top_news | Fetch the top news stories from Google News. |
| get_trending_terms | Return trending keywords from Google Trends for a specified location. |
All of the news related tools have an option to summarize the text of the article using LLM Sampling (if supported) or NLP
CLI
All tools can be accessed from the command line using uv
uv run google-news-trends
Usage: google-news-trends [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Find and download news articles using Google News.
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
keyword Find articles by keyword using Google News.
location Find articles by location using Google News.
top Get top news stories from Google News.
topic Find articles by topic using Google News.
trending Returns google trends for a specific geo location.
Debugging
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx google-news-trends-mcp
To run from within locally installed project
cd path/to/google-news-trends-mcp
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run google-news-trends-mcp
Testing
cd path/to/google-news-trends-mcp
uv run pytest
README fetched from the repository 4 days ago. The original is authoritative.