Google News & Trends
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.
Integrates with Google News RSS feeds and Google Trends to provide news article search, trending topic retrieval, and optional content summarization for news monitoring and trend analysis workflows.
What it does
- Search news articles by keyword
- Find news by geographic location
- Browse news by topic categories
- Get top trending news stories
- Retrieve trending search terms by location
Best for
About Google News & Trends
Google News & Trends is a community-built MCP server published by jmanek that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Stay updated with Google News & Trends: search news articles, follow trending topics, and monitor news effortlessly with It is categorized under search web, analytics data. This server exposes 5 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
How to install
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.
License
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.
Tools (5)
Find articles by keyword using Google News.
Find articles by location using Google News.
Find articles by topic using Google News. topic is one of WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH, POLITICS, CELEBRITIES, TV, MUSIC, MOVIES, THEATER, SOCCER, CYCLING, MOTOR SPORTS, TENNIS, COMBAT SPORTS, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, SPORTS BETTING, WATER SPORTS, HOCKEY, GOLF, CRICKET, RUGBY, ECONOMY, PERSONAL FINANCE, FINANCE, DIGITAL CURRENCIES, MOBILE, ENERGY, GAMING, INTERNET SECURITY, GADGETS, VIRTUAL REALITY, ROBOTICS, NUTRITION, PUBLIC HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, MEDICINE, SPACE, WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT, NEUROSCIENCE, PHYSICS, GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION, JOBS, ONLINE EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, VEHICLES, ARTS-DESIGN, BEAUTY, FOOD, TRAVEL, SHOPPING, HOME, OUTDOORS, FASHION.
Get top news stories from Google News.
Returns google trends for a specific geo location.
Google News Trends MCP
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.
Features
- Trawl Google News RSS feeds for articles based on keyword, location, topic
- Ingest top news stories from Google News
- Snag trending search terms from Google Trends based on geographic input
- Plug in LLM/NLP pipelines to condense article payloads and extract key concepts
Installation
Using uv/uvx (recommended)
When using uv no specific installation is needed. We will
use uvx to directly run google-news-trends-mcp.
Using PIP
pip install google-news-trends-mcp
After installation, you can run it as a script using:
python -m google_news_trends_mcp
Configuration
Configure for Claude.app
Add to your Claude settings:
Using uvx
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
Using pip installation
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
Configure for VS Code
Using uvx
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
}
Using pip installation
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
}
Tools
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
CLI
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.
Debugging
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
Testing
cd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
python -m pytest
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