An MCP server that provides real-time news fetching, search, NLP analysis, and personalized news preferences via the Model Context Protocol.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Newshub MCP MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. An MCP server that provides real-time news fetching, search, NLP analysis, and personalized news preferences via the Model Context Protocol.
The server publishes 8 tools. What each one is for:
get_news_digest — Primary tool. Fetches, scrapes, and summarizes news in one call. Use for any general news questionget_latest_news — Returns raw article metadata (titles, URLs, sources). Use when the user wants a list of linkssearch_news — Searches articles by keyword or phrase. Use for specific names, events, or topicscompare_news_sources — Fetches the same topic from 3 sources and returns a side-by-side summary of eachanalyze_sentiment — Scores text as positive, negative, or neutral using AFINN scoringextract_entities — Extracts people, organizations, and topics from textget_my_preferences — Returns your currently saved news preferencesset_my_preferences — Updates your preferences (topics, country, language). Changes apply immediatelyConfiguration is passed through the environment: RAPIDAPI_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
x-rapidapi-key from the Endpoints tab ---The server ships on npm as npm, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
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. Newshub MCP's toolset — get_news_digest, get_latest_news, search_news and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by vaishnavi-2506; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| get_news_digest | **Primary tool.** Fetches, scrapes, and summarizes news in one call. Use for any general news question. |
| get_latest_news | Returns raw article metadata (titles, URLs, sources). Use when the user wants a list of links. |
| search_news | Searches articles by keyword or phrase. Use for specific names, events, or topics. |
| compare_news_sources | Fetches the same topic from 3 sources and returns a side-by-side summary of each. |
| analyze_sentiment | Scores text as positive, negative, or neutral using AFINN scoring. |
| extract_entities | Extracts people, organizations, and topics from text. |
| get_my_preferences | Returns your currently saved news preferences. |
| set_my_preferences | Updates your preferences (topics, country, language). Changes apply immediately. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"newshub": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "npm"],
"env": {
"RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
x-rapidapi-key from the Endpoints tab ---| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| RAPIDAPI_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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