Google MCP Server

Google News headlines, sources, and links via the Apify Google News API, hosted MCP.

Remote serverstreamable-httpPython

What is the Google MCP server?

Google News headlines, sources, and links via the Apify Google News API, hosted MCP. The google mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 1 defined tool rather than through you.

What it actually does

The Google News API searches Google News and returns clean, structured JSON, one item per page of results. Each item carries the search parameters, search metadata (total results, pages processed), and a news_results array where every article includes title, link, source, snippet, and ranking position. Supports location targeting, country and language filtering, safe search, duplicate filtering, and pagination control.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Configuration

You will need 2 environment variables: APIFY_API_TOKEN, YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

  • Python 3.11 or higher - An Apify account and API key (get a free key here) 1. Clone the repository 2. Install dependencies with UV 3. Configure your API key 4. Run the example

When to reach for it

This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Google's toolset — Prerequisites — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by johnisanerd; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the google mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Prerequisites1. **Clone the repository** bash git clone https://github.com/johnisanerd/Apify-Google-News-Scraper.git cd Apify-Google-News-Scraper

How to install the Google MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=actors,docs,johnvc/GoogleNewsAPI"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

  • Python 3.11 or higher - An Apify account and API key (get a free key here) 1. Clone the repository 2. Install dependencies with UV 3. Configure your API key 4. Run the example
VariableDescriptionRequired
APIFY_API_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
YOUR_APIFY_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Google to Prerequisites.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Google to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Prerequisites) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Google directly.