# Newsdata (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata)

NewsData.io MCP — wraps the NewsData.io global news API (newsdata.io)

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 84/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/newsdata-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/newsdata-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata`
- Version: `0.2.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-newsdata).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 1 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 60/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1090 tokens (~363/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 4 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Newsdata MCP server?

Newsdata runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-newsdata -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-newsdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-newsdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-newsdata -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-newsdata": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-newsdata --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-newsdata:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-newsdata": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-newsdata -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-newsdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 81, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-11-03 (score 66, −14)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional] Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-30 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 78)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `latest_news` (~688 tokens)

Get news headlines and articles — world news, breaking news, and business/financial/stock-market news. Filter by keyword, country (2-letter, e.g. "us"), category (business, technology, politics, sports, health, science), and language. IMPORTANT: for stock-market / financial-market / economy / "world market news" questions, ALWAYS pass category: "business" — it returns real market-news outlets and filters out low-quality SEO/crypto-promo articles. Returns article title, description, link, source, publish date, category, and country. Paginate via the nextPage token. WITHOUT from_date/to_date this covers only roughly the LAST 48 HOURS (NewsData.io's rolling "latest" feed) — asking about an older event with no date window silently returns today's unrelated articles instead of an empty result. For a PAST date range, pass from_date/to_date (YYYY-MM-DD): this routes to NewsData.io's archive endpoint, which requires a plan tier above the shared platform key's default — if the account cannot serve it, the call returns a `filter_gap` field naming the unsupported window instead of silently substituting the latest 48h. Examples: latest_news({ query: "stock market", category: "business" }) for current world market news; latest_news({ query: "election", country: "us", category: "politics" }); latest_news({ query: "Houthi Yemen attack", from_date: "2026-08-01", to_date: "2026-08-15" }) for an August event.

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional — your own NewsData.io API key for higher limits; omit to use the shared Pipeworx key.
- `category` (string): News category, e.g. "business", "technology", "politics", "sports", "health", "science". OMIT unless confident — a wrong category guess returns 0 results (e.g. drug-approval and pharma-industry stori…
- `country` (string): 2-letter country code to filter news by, e.g. "us", "gb", "in"
- `from_date` (string): Start of a PAST date window, YYYY-MM-DD. Supplying this (or to_date) switches the call from the 48h "latest" feed to NewsData.io's archive endpoint, which may require a higher plan tier than the shar…
- `language` (string): Language code to filter news by, e.g. "en", "es", "fr"
- `page` (string): nextPage token returned from a prior call, to fetch the next page of results
- `query` (string): Keywords to search news articles for. Every term is AND-ed — each word must appear in the article — so use 1-3 distinctive keywords ("NMPA approval biotech", "AI chips") rather than a full phrase; "C…
- `to_date` (string): End of a PAST date window, YYYY-MM-DD. See from_date.

### `crypto_news` (~181 tokens)

Get the latest cryptocurrency news headlines and articles. Filter by keyword, coin ticker(s) (e.g. "btc,eth"), and language. Returns article title, description, link, source, publish date, category, and country. Example: crypto_news({ coin: "btc,eth", query: "etf" })

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional — your own NewsData.io API key for higher limits; omit to use the shared Pipeworx key.
- `coin` (string): Comma-separated coin ticker(s) to filter by, e.g. "btc,eth"
- `language` (string): Language code to filter news by, e.g. "en", "es", "fr"
- `query` (string): Keyword or phrase to search crypto news for, e.g. "etf", "halving"

### `news_sources` (~169 tokens)

List available global news sources. Filter by country (2-letter), category, and language. Returns source id, name, url, category, country, and language — useful for discovering which outlets cover a given region or topic. Example: news_sources({ country: "us", category: "technology" })

Input parameters:

- `_apiKey` (string): Optional — your own NewsData.io API key for higher limits; omit to use the shared Pipeworx key.
- `category` (string): News category to filter sources by, e.g. "business", "technology"
- `country` (string): 2-letter country code to filter sources by, e.g. "us", "gb"
- `language` (string): Language code to filter sources by, e.g. "en", "es"

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 81
- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 66
- 2026-11-02: 80
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 79
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 78

## Common questions

### What is the Newsdata MCP server?

Newsdata is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/newsdata. NewsData.io MCP, wraps the NewsData.io global news API (newsdata.io). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata).

### Is the Newsdata MCP server safe to use?

Newsdata scores 81 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. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Newsdata MCP server expose?

Newsdata exposes 3 tools: latest_news, crypto_news, news_sources. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,038 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Newsdata MCP server still maintained?

Newsdata 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 Newsdata MCP server under?

Newsdata declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-newsdata
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-newsdata
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/newsdata
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-newsdata/pipeworx-mcp-newsdata