news-ai-mcp-server

news-ai-mcp-server

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The News AI MCP Server is a Python-based server integrating with NewsAPI.org to provide summarized news headlines. It offers customizable searches by country and category and facilitates easy integration with MCP clients.

📰 News AI MCP Server

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A minimal Python-based MCP server that connects to NewsAPI.org to fetch and summarize the latest top headlines by country, category, and search query. Built with python mcp SDK, tested on a cloud desktop client, and initialized using uv for environment management.

🚀 Features

  • 🌍 Fetch top headlines from NewsAPI.org by:
    • Country code (e.g. us, in)
    • Category (e.g. business, technology)
    • Search query (q)
  • 🧠 Summarizes the news headlines with:
    • Title
    • Short description
    • Author and source attribution
  • 🔧 Includes a test greeting resource for verifying server communication
  • ⚙️ Easily integratable into MCP clients

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • Python
  • MCP SDK for Python (FastMCP)
  • NewsAPI.org
  • uv — For dependency and environment management
  • dotenv — For managing secrets like API keys

📦 Setup

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/news-ai-mcp-server.git
cd news-ai-mcp-server

2. Install dependencies

Make sure you have uv installed:

3. Create a .env file

API_KEY=your_newsapi_org_api_key

4. Run the MCP server

uv run mcp install main.py

🧪 Testing

This server was tested using a cloud desktop client connected via the MCP protocol.