APITube News MCP Server

Hosted MCP server for the APITube News API.

CommunityOnlineAPI key requiredGlobalFreeCan modify data

What it can do

  • Search News: Search news articles using APITube News API with comprehensive filtering. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUERY CONSTRUCTION: 1. DO NOT use dots in parameter names directly in the root object.
  • Suggest: Resolve a name or prefix to APITube taxonomy IDs so you can use them in the `search_news` tool's filters. The `search_news` tool's most precise filters require IDs you cannot guess: - entity.

What data it sees

Do you need an account

An API key from the service settings is required

Hosted MCP server for the APITube News API. It gives an assistant live and archived news from 500,000+ verified sources across 180+ countries in 60+ languages, already enriched: sentiment, entities (people, organizations, locations, brands, events), IPTC categories, topics and industries. No crawler, no HTML parsing, no local process to run.

Tools

  • search_news — search articles with the full APITube filter set: keywords, language, country, source domain, source quality rank (OPR), sentiment, entity, media presence, date ranges, sorting (published_at, relevance, engagement, quality) and facets.
  • suggest — turn a name or prefix ("Tesla") into the APITube entity, category, topic or industry ID that search_news filters on.

Prompts

monitor_company, topic_sentiment, breaking_news, compare_coverage.

Connection

Remote server, nothing to install: Streamable HTTP at https://mcp.apitube.io/, authenticated with an X-API-Key header (an Authorization: Bearer header works too). Protocol 2025-11-25, negotiates down to 2024-11-05 for older clients. stdio-only clients such as Claude Desktop can bridge with mcp-remote.

What it is for

  • media and brand monitoring across languages, with sentiment attached
  • market and financial intelligence filtered by entity, industry and sentiment
  • RAG pipelines and agents that need a current, structured news corpus
  • research and backtesting against historical coverage

Access

APITube's free tier is 100 requests/day; the MCP server requires a paid plan, from $29/month. Keys and plans: apitube.io/pricing. Docs: docs.apitube.io.

How to connect

How to connect APITube News MCP Server to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://apitube-news--apitube.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect APITube News MCP Server to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://apitube-news--apitube.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect APITube News MCP Server to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://apitube-news--apitube.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (2)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_newsSearch news articles using APITube News API with comprehensive filtering. IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUERY CONSTRUCTION: 1. DO NOT use dots in parameter names directly in the root object. Use nested objects instead. 2. The system will automatically convert nested objects to dot notation for the API. Example: Use { language: { code: "en" } } instead of { "language.code": "en" }. 3. For multiple values in one parameter, use COMMA separation (e.g., "en,ru,fr" for multiple languages). 4. Integer filters (has_*, is_*) accept ONLY 0 or 1 (e.g., has_image=1, is_duplicate=0). 5. Date format: ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ). 6. Sentiment scores range: -1.0 (negative) to 1.0 (positive). 7. Default sorting: published_at DESC (newest first). AVAILABLE PARAMETERS: ### Content Search - title: Search by article title (supports up to 3 keywords with comma separation) IMPORTANT: a title search covers at most a 31-day published_at window. Omit the dates and the last 31 days are searched; pass a range wider than 31 days and the call fails with 400 ER0110. To cover a longer period, make one call per month-sized window. - ignore: { title: "keyword" } - Exclude articles with specific titles ### Languages (60+ supported) - language: { code: "en,ru,fr" } - Filter by language codes (up to 3) - ignore: { language: { code: "fr" } } - Exclude specific languages ### Categories (IPTC taxonomy) - category: { id: "medtop:04000000" } - Filter by category ID (up to 3) - ignore: { category: { id: "315" } } - Exclude categories ### Topics - topic: { id: "crypto_news,climate_change" } - Filter by topic ID (up to 3) - ignore: { topic: { id: "2" } } - Exclude topics ### Industries - industry: { id: "246771,246772" } - Filter by industry ID (up to 3) - ignore: { industry: { id: "246772" } } - Exclude industries ### Entities - entity: { id: "1278268,1282301" } - Filter by entity ID (up to 3) - ignore: { entity: { id: "315" } } - Exclude entities ### Persons - person: { name:
suggestResolve a name or prefix to APITube taxonomy IDs so you can use them in the `search_news` tool's filters. The `search_news` tool's most precise filters require IDs you cannot guess: - entity.id — numeric (persons, organizations, locations, brands, events...) - category.id — IPTC slug, e.g. "medtop:04000000" - topic.id — slug - industry.id — numeric Use this tool FIRST to look those IDs up, then pass them into `search_news`. USAGE: - type: which taxonomy to autocomplete — one of "entities", "categories", "topics", "industries". - prefix: the name (or its beginning) to search, e.g. "Tesla", "Elon", "spo". Returns an array of matches; take the `id` of the best match and put it into `search_news`: suggest({ type: "entities", prefix: "Tesla" }) → [{ id: 12345, name: "Tesla, Inc.", ... }] search_news({ entity: { id: "12345" } })