Google News
NPM · GOOGLE-NEWS-SCRAPER-MCP
Search Google News, get top stories and read articles. No API key or headless browser.
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Last scanned (1 hour ago)
Scores higher than 45% of npm servers
Category News and Social
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 51 of 181 dependencies flagged as unhealthy (1 deprecated). View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency19
- Repository presence not verified: we could not reach the forge to check. This is a gap on our side, not a finding about the repository. View diagnostics → Unverified
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 5 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability69
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 637 tokens (~212/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management70
- Stability observed for 21 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 −5
- Provenance: pass → unverified ▼ security
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 63. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 19 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 30 Oct 26 +1
- Security disclosure: unverified → fail ▼ functional
- 29 Oct 26 0
- Security disclosure: fail → unverified ▼ functional
- 28 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 40 to 43. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 12 days of observed history at the previous scan, 13 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 26 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 10 days of observed history at the previous scan, 11 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 23 Oct 26 +4
- Stability: unverified → 0.27 ▲ functional
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/google-news-scraper-mcp@0.1.2
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 181 packages
| Packages resolved | 181 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | 1 |
| Stale | 51 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_article_text Read a news article ~76
Fetch a news article URL (for example one returned by search_news or top_stories) and return its readable body text, title, byline and publish time, so you can summarise or quote it. Paywalled or JavaScript-only pages may return an error.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | The article URL to read. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_news Search Google News ~257
Search Google News directly for articles on any keyword, company, person, team or topic. Use this for any request to search, find or summarise news or Google News coverage. Free, no API key or credits. Returns titles, publisher URLs (not Google redirect links), source names and ISO publish dates. Supports Google search operators such as quotes, OR and site:. To summarise coverage, follow up with get_article_text on the most relevant links.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Two-letter country code for the regional edition, e.g. "GB", "DE", "BR". Defaults to US. |
| language | string | – | Google News interface language, e.g. "en-GB", "de", "pt-BR". Defaults to en-US. |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of articles to return. Defaults to 20. |
| query | string | yes | What to search for, e.g. "OpenAI" or "interest rates site:reuters.com". |
| timeframe | string | – | How far back to look: a number followed by h, d, m or y, e.g. "12h", "1d", "7d", "6m". Defaults to 7d. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
top_stories Google News top stories ~219
Get the current Google News top stories (headlines) for a country and language, or the stories on a Google News topic page (pass its news.google.com/topics/... URL). Use this when the user asks what is in the news or for today's headlines. Free, no API key or credits.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| country | string | – | Two-letter country code for the regional edition, e.g. "GB", "DE", "BR". Defaults to US. |
| language | string | – | Google News interface language, e.g. "en-GB", "de", "pt-BR". Defaults to en-US. |
| limit | integer | – | Maximum number of articles to return. Defaults to 20. |
| topicUrl | string | – | A Google News topic or section URL, e.g. https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGRqTVhZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB. Omit for the front page. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Google News MCP server?
Google News runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · google-news-scraper-mcp
claude mcp add lewisdonovan-google-news -- npx -y google-news-scraper-mcp
What is the Google News MCP server?
Google News is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.lewisdonovan/google-news. Search Google News, get top stories and read articles. No API key or headless browser. This page covers its npm package (google-news-scraper-mcp).
Is the Google News MCP server safe to use?
Google News scores 73 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Google News MCP server expose?
Google News exposes 3 tools: search_news, top_stories, get_article_text. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 552 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Google News MCP server still maintained?
Google News is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Google News MCP server under?
Google News declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.