Google News Scraper MCP Server

An MCP server that provides real-time Google News data — search articles, get top stories, and browse news by topic (business, tech, health, science, sports, entertainment) — for use with Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible AI tools.

Features

• Search News — Search Google News for articles by keyword
• Get Top Stories — Get current top stories from Google News
• Get Topic News — Get Google News articles for a specific topic (business, technology, health, science, sports, entertainment)

Tools

search_news

Search Google News for articles by keyword

Parameters:

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |------|------|----------|-------------| | query | string | Yes | Search query | | language | string | No | Language code (default: en) | | country | string | No | Country code (default: US) | | limit | number | No | Maximum number of articles (default: 30) |

get_top_stories

Get current top stories from Google News

Parameters:

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |------|------|----------|-------------| | language | string | No | Language code (default: en) | | country | string | No | Country code (default: US) | | limit | number | No | Maximum number of articles (default: 30) |

get_topic_news

Get Google News articles for a specific topic (business, technology, health, science, sports, entertainment)

Parameters:

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |------|------|----------|-------------| | topic | string | Yes | Topic name — one of: business, technology, health, science, sports, entertainment | | language | string | No | Language code (default: en) | | country | string | No | Country code (default: US) | | limit | number | No | Maximum number of articles (default: 30) |

Configuration

Get your API key from RapidAPI.

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pullapi/google-news-scraper-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-rapidapi-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Usage with Cursor

Add to your Cursor MCP settings (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pullapi/google-news-scraper-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "your-rapidapi-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

License

MIT