APITube News MCP

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Overview

The APITube MCP server gives an assistant live access to the world's news as structured data, not scraped HTML. It exposes 2 tools:

• search_news — most of the News API filter set in one call: keywords, language, country, source domain and quality rank, sentiment range, named entities, media, date ranges, sorting, faceting and highlighting.
• suggest — resolves a name like "Tesla" into the entity, category, topic and industry IDs the precise filters need.

Every article comes back enriched by the pipeline behind it: sentiment scores, extracted entities (people, organizations, locations, brands, events), IPTC categories, topics and industries.

MCP client  →  mcp.apitube.io  →  api.apitube.io
               (this server)      (News API)

JSON-RPC over HTTP, Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>

Property	Value
Endpoint	https://mcp.apitube.io/
Transport	Streamable HTTP (POST /), JSON-RPC 2.0
Protocol	2025-11-25, negotiated down to your client's version (2024-11-05 works)
Server	APITube News MCP-Server 1.0.0
Auth	Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>, or X-API-Key: <API_KEY>
Registry	io.apitube/news (server.json)

Quick Start

1. Get an API key at apitube.io.
2. Add the server to your client with the block below — each one is also a ready file in configs/.
3. Restart the client and ask it something like "find positive breaking news about Tesla in English from the last week".

claude mcp add --transport http apitube-news https://mcp.apitube.io/ \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Check it with /mcp. To commit the server to a project instead, put configs/claude-code.mcp.json at the repo root as .mcp.json.

MCP Servers → Configure, or ~/.cline/mcp.json for the CLI:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" },
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

type must be set explicitly — without it Cline falls back to the legacy SSE transport, which this server does not serve. Both tools are read-only, so autoApprove: ["search_news", "suggest"] is safe if you would rather not confirm every call.

~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Settings → MCP should list apitube-news as connected.

Claude Desktop only launches local processes, so bridge the hosted server with mcp-remote. Edit claude_desktop_config.json (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/ on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\ on Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart the app; the tools appear under the slider icon.

.vscode/mcp.json, with the key prompted instead of stored in plain text:

{
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "apitube-key", "description": "APITube API Key", "password": true }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:apitube-key}" }
    }
  }
}

Open Copilot Chat in Agent mode and enable the apitube-news tools.

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json — note serverUrl, not url:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf Settings → Cascade → MCP Servers → refresh.

Anything that speaks Streamable HTTP takes the URL directly; clients limited to stdio go through mcp-remote, as in the Claude Desktop block. The handshake needs no key:

curl -s -X POST https://mcp.apitube.io/ \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0.0"}},"id":1}'

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "result": {
    "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05",
    "serverInfo": { "name": "APITube News MCP-Server", "version": "1.0.0" },
    "capabilities": { "tools": { "listChanged": true }, "prompts": { "listChanged": true } }
  }
}

A real search adds the key:

curl -s -X POST https://mcp.apitube.io/ \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_news","arguments":{"title":"Bitcoin","language":{"code":"en"},"per_page":5}},"id":1}'

Tools

Tool	Title	Kind	What it does
search_news	News Search	read-only	Searches articles across the News API filter set
suggest	Resolve Taxonomy IDs	read-only	Turns a name or prefix into entity / category / topic / industry IDs

search_news

Arguments are nested objects, never dotted strings:

{ "language": { "code": "en" } }      // ✅
{ "language.code": "en" }             // ❌ rejected

Three things worth knowing before the first call:

• The article body is not returned by default. The default field list is id,title,href,published_at,description,source.domain. Ask for the text explicitly with fl: "title,href,body".
• One response carries at most 25 articles. per_page defaults to 10 and is clamped to 25; walk further with page. If a result set still has to be cut — 25 articles of full text can be large — the response gains an _mcp_truncated field saying how many were omitted.
• A title search spans at most 31 days. With no dates it covers the last 31 days; a wider explicit range fails with 400 ER0110. Split longer periods into month-sized windows. Searches without a title filter have no range limit.

Misspelled arguments are rejected with JSON-RPC -32602 and a suggestion, instead of being silently ignored:

Unknown parameter 'langauge.code'. Did you mean 'language.code'?

export, query and prompt are deliberately not exposed.

suggest

The precise filters take IDs you cannot guess, so resolve them first:

suggest({ type: "entities", prefix: "Tesla" })
// → [{ id: 474, name: "Tesla Robotaxi", type: "brand", … }, …]

search_news({ entity: { id: "474" }, language: { code: "en" } })

type is one of entities, categories, topics, industries; prefix is a name or its beginning. Both are required. Matching is by prefix, so read the names before filtering on the first hit.

Filters

Everything below belongs to search_news. Content, taxonomy, language, author and source filters have an ignore.* twin for exclusion (ignore.title, ignore.entity.id, ignore.source.domain, …); sentiment, media and time filters do not. Multi-value filters take up to 3 comma-separated values. has_* and is_* take 0 or 1, not true/false.

Argument	Example
title	"Bitcoin" — up to 3 comma-separated keywords, quotes for an exact phrase
category.id	"medtop:04000000" — IPTC taxonomy
topic.id	"industry.crypto_news" — slug, from suggest
industry.id	"411" — numeric, from suggest
entity.id	"474" — from suggest
person.name · organization.name · location.name	"Elon Musk" · "Tesla,Apple" · "Tokyo"
brand.name · event.name · disaster.name · disease.name	"Nike" · "Olympics" · "Earthquake" · "COVID-19"
author.id · author.name · has_author	"123" · "Jane Smith" · 1
language.code	"en,de,fr"

Argument	Example
sentiment.overall.polarity	"positive" | "negative" | "neutral"
sentiment.overall.score.{min,max}	-1.0 … 1.0
sentiment.title.score · sentiment.body.score	same range, headline or body only
sentiment.mixed · sentiment.consistent	1 — title and body disagree / agree

Argument	Example
source.domain · source.id	"cnn.com,bbc.com" · "314"
source.country.code	"us,uk,de"
source.bias	"left" | "center" | "right"
source.rank.opr.{min,max}	OpenPageRank, 0–7
is_premium_source · is_verified_source	OPR ≥ 6 · OPR ≥ 5
is_duplicate · is_paywall	0 to exclude

Argument	Example
has_image · has_video · has_hq_images · is_media_rich	1
media.images.count.{min,max} · media.images.{width,height} · media.videos.count	{ "min": 2 }
is_breaking · is_long_read · is_short_read	1 — read time ≥ 5 min / < 3 min
read_time.{min,max}	minutes
published_at.{start,end}	"2026-01-01" … "2026-01-31", ISO 8601

Argument	Example
sort.by	published_at, relevance, engagement, quality, controversy, trust, source.rank.opr, sentiment.*.score, media.*, read_time, …
sort.order	"asc" | "desc"
page · per_page	1 · 10 (max 25)
fl	"id,title,source.name,sentiment.overall.score" — dot notation for nested fields
facet	true, or { "field": "source.id,language.id", "limit": 20, "mincount": 5 }
facet.range	{ "field": "published_at", "start": "2026-01-01", "end": "2026-12-31", "gap": "1MONTH" }
hl	true, or { "fl": "title,body", "fragsize": 300, "tag": { "pre": "<mark>", "post": "</mark>" } }

Prompts

Slash commands in clients that support MCP prompts:

Prompt	Arguments	What it does
monitor_company	company (required), days	Recent coverage and sentiment for one company
topic_sentiment	topic (required), language	Sentiment breakdown of coverage on a topic
breaking_news	subject, country	Latest breaking stories, optionally narrowed
compare_coverage	subject_a, subject_b (both required)	Volume and sentiment, two subjects side by side

Use cases

You want to	Ask for	Tools
Watch a brand across languages	mentions of the company with sentiment, last 7 days	suggest → search_news
Feed a trading or risk model	entity + industry filtered news with sentiment scores	suggest → search_news
Ground an agent in live news	recent articles with fl: "title,href,body" for RAG	search_news
Track a running story	is_breaking: 1, sorted by published_at	search_news
Measure share of voice	two subjects compared by volume and sentiment	compare_coverage
Study an archive	a date range with no title filter — no 31-day limit	search_news

Pricing

The MCP server is part of the paid plans; the free tier covers the REST API only.

Plan	Price	Requests	MCP server
Free	$0	100/day	—
Starter	$29/mo	10,000/mo	✅
Basic	$99/mo	50,000/mo	✅
Professional	$199/mo	150,000/mo	✅

Annual billing takes 20% off. Current numbers always live at apitube.io/pricing.

Page size is capped separately: through MCP one response holds at most 25 articles on every plan, regardless of the larger per_page the REST API allows.

Troubleshooting

Auth and transport failures arrive as JSON-RPC -32000 with an APITube code in the message and the matching HTTP status.

Code	HTTP	Meaning	Fix
ER0201	401	No API key reached the server	The header is missing, or the client strips custom headers — use the mcp-remote bridge
ER0202	401	Key invalid or revoked	Re-copy it from apitube.io
ER0230	401	Key expired	Extend the expiry in the key's settings
ER0601 / ER0602	403	IP or referrer not allowed for this key	Adjust the key's restrictions
ER0603	403	Key not permitted to call this tool	Grant it access to search_news / suggest
ER0429	429	Over 120 requests/minute	Slow down — the limit is per key
ER0900	503	Key validation temporarily unavailable	Retry; the key is fine, do not reissue it

Symptom	Cause
Client reconnects in a loop	It opened a GET SSE stream. Expected: the server answers 405 Allow: POST because it has no event stream, and compliant clients fall back to POST
-32602 with a suggested name	Misspelled argument — arguments are nested objects, never dotted keys
403 from a Python script	The default Python-urllib/3.x user agent is rejected at the edge. Send a real User-Agent, or use requests
Search returns nothing for an old story	A title search only covers 31 days. Add published_at and walk month by month
Articles arrive without text	The body is excluded by default. Add fl: "title,href,body"

Documentation

Resource	Link
MCP server reference	https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/ai/mcp-server
Editor setup, one-click install links	https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/ai/code-editors
All News API parameters	https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/everything
Authentication	https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/authentication
Machine-readable server card	https://docs.apitube.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
Agent skill, SDKs, migration kits	https://github.com/apitube
Installing this server as an agent	llms-install.md

Registry

Published in the official MCP Registry from server.json in this repository:

mcp-name: io.apitube/news

See more on Claude Market's MCP directory.

Support

Channel	Where
Bugs and corrections	open an issue
Account and billing	support@apitube.io
Everything else	https://apitube.io/contact

Found an argument that behaves differently from what is written here? Open an issue with the request you sent and the response you got — those corrections are the most useful thing you can file.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.