by jmanek
Stay updated with Google News & Trends: search news articles, follow trending topics, and monitor news effortlessly with
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.
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.
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.
Fetch and extract information from websites automatically
Example
Research competitor pricing, scrape product reviews, monitor news mentions
Automate 5-10 hours/week of manual web research
Track website changes, new content, price updates
Example
Monitor competitor blog for new posts, track stock availability, watch for pricing changes
Stay informed without manual checking, never miss important updates
Extract structured data from multiple websites
Example
Compile product listings from 10 e-commerce sites, aggregate job postings, collect real estate data
Build datasets 100x faster than manual copying
Share your MCP server with the developer community
Strong directory entry: Google News & Trends surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
Useful MCP listing: Google News & Trends is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
We evaluated Google News & Trends against two servers with overlapping tools; this profile had the clearer scope statement.
According to our notes, Google News & Trends benefits from clear Model Context Protocol framing — fewer ambiguous “AI plugin” claims.
We wired Google News & Trends into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
Google News & Trends is among the better-indexed MCP projects we tried; the explainx.ai summary tracks the official description.
Google News & Trends is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.
I recommend Google News & Trends for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
Google News & Trends has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
Google News & Trends reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
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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.
When using uv no specific installation is needed. We will
use uvx to directly run google-news-trends-mcp.
pip install google-news-trends-mcp
After installation, you can run it as a script using:
python -m google_news_trends_mcp
Add to your Claude settings:
<details> <summary>Using uvx</summary>{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
{
"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"]
}
}
}
}
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
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.
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
cd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
python -m pytest
Interact with services that don't offer APIs
Example
Check form submissions, validate website functionality, test user flows
Automate interactions with any website, even without API
Prerequisites
Time Estimate
20-40 minutes including configuration and testing
Steps
Troubleshooting
✓ Do
✗ Don't
💡 Pro Tips
Architecture
MCP server handles HTTP requests, HTML parsing, JavaScript rendering (if headless browser), and returns structured data to Claude.
Protocols
Compatibility
✓ Use when
Use for research automation, content monitoring, data aggregation from multiple sources, and when official APIs don't exist. Best for read-only information gathering.
✗ Avoid when
Avoid for sites with APIs (use API instead), sites that explicitly forbid scraping, when data is copyrighted, or for login-required content without proper authorization.