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Google News & Trends▌

by jmanek

Stay updated with Google News & Trends: search news articles, follow trending topics, and monitor news effortlessly with

Integrates with Google News RSS feeds and Google Trends to provide news article search, trending topic retrieval, and optional content summarization for news monitoring and trend analysis workflows.

github stars

★ 68

GitHub npm

No API key requiredUses Google's RSS feeds directlyOptional content summarization

best for

/ News monitoring and content curation
/ Market research and trend analysis
/ Journalism and media research
/ Social media content planning

capabilities

/ Search news articles by keyword
/ Find news by geographic location
/ Browse news by topic categories
/ Get top trending news stories
/ Retrieve trending search terms by location

what it does

Searches Google News articles by keyword, location, or topic and retrieves trending search terms from Google Trends. Provides structured access to current news and trending topics for analysis.

how to install

You can install Google News & Trends in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport. This server supports remote connections over HTTP, so no local installation is required.

license

MIT

Google News & Trends is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.

readme

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:

<details> <summary>Using uvx</summary>

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news-trends": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

</details> <details> <summary>Using pip installation</summary>

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news-trends": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
    }
  }
}

</details>

Configure for VS Code

<details> <summary>Using uvx</summary>

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "google-news-trends": {
        "command": "uvx",
        "args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
      }
    }
  }
}

</details> <details> <summary>Using pip installation</summary>

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "google-news-trends": {
        "command": "python",
        "args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}

</details>

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_keywords	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/tends/mcp
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run google-news-trends-mcp

Testing

cd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
python -m pytest