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【Star-crossed coders unite!⭐️】Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation providing Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI, with automatic news categorization and multi-language support.
https://github.com/chanmeng666/server-google-news

ai claude claude-desktop google-news-api mcp mcp-server modelcontextprotocol news-aggregation news-search nodejs serpapi typescript

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【Star-crossed coders unite!⭐️】Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation providing Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI, with automatic news categorization and multi-language support.

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Google News MCP Server








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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides Google News search capabilities via SerpAPI integration. Automatically categorizes news results and supports multiple languages and regions.

Google News Server MCP server


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# ✨ Features

### 🔍 Flexible Search Options
Comprehensive search capabilities including query-based search, topic search, publication filtering and story coverage.

### 🌐 Global Coverage
Supports multiple languages and regions through configurable language and country codes.

### 📊 Smart Categorization
Automatically categorizes news results into topics like AI & Technology, Business, Science & Research, and Healthcare.

### 🔀 Multiple Result Types
Handles various news result types including headlines, stories, related topics and menu links.

### 🛠️ Robust Error Handling
Comprehensive error handling for API failures and invalid inputs, with helpful error messages.

### 🌍 Language Support
Automatic fallback to English for unsupported language codes with appropriate user notifications.

# 🔑 SERP API Setup Guide

Before getting started, you'll need to obtain a SERP API key. Here's how:

1. Visit [SERP API website](https://serpapi.com/) and create an account

2. After registration, go to your Dashboard:
- Locate the "API Key" section
- Copy your API key
- New users get 100 free API calls

3. API Usage Details:
- Free tier: 100 searches per month
- Paid plans start at $50/month for 5000 searches
- Billing based on successful API calls
- Multiple payment methods: Credit Card, PayPal, etc.

4. Usage Limits:
- Request Rate: 2 requests/second
- IP Restrictions: None
- Concurrent Requests: 5
- Response Cache Time: 1 hour

# 👩‍🔧 Solution for MCP Servers Connection Issues with NVM/NPM

Click to view my configuration solution 👉 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/issues/76

# 🚀 Quick Start

1. Install dependencies:
```bash
npm install
```

2. Configure environment:
Modify your `claude_desktop_config.json` with the following content (adjust paths according to your system):
```json
"google-news": {
"command": "D:\\Program\\nvm\\node.exe",
"args": [
"D:\\github_repository\\path_to\\dist\\index.js"
],
"env": {
"SERP_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
}
}
```

3. Build the server:
```bash
npm run build
```

4. Start the server:
```bash
npm start
```

## Troubleshooting

1. Invalid API Key
- Verify API key configuration in `claude_desktop_config.json`
- Confirm API key is active in SERP API dashboard

2. Request Failures
- Check network connectivity
- Verify API call quota hasn't been exceeded
- Validate request parameter format

# 📦 Installation

## Installing via Smithery

To install Google News for Claude Desktop automatically via [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/@chanmeng666/google-news-server):

```bash
npx -y @smithery/cli install @chanmeng666/google-news-server --client claude
```

[![smithery badge](https://smithery.ai/badge/@chanmeng666/google-news-server)](https://smithery.ai/server/@chanmeng666/google-news-server)

## Installing via mcp-get

```bash
npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @chanmeng666/google-news-server
```

> If you are using an old version of Windows PowerShell, you may need to run `Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process` before this command.

## Manual Installation

@chanmeng666/google-news-server

```bash
# Using npm
npm i @chanmeng666/google-news-server
# or
npm install @chanmeng666/google-news-server

# Using yarn
yarn add @chanmeng666/google-news-server

# Using pnpm
pnpm add @chanmeng666/google-news-server
```

# 💻 Tech Stack
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# 📖 API Documentation

The server implements the Model Context Protocol and exposes a Google News search tool with the following parameters:

- `q`: Search query string
- `gl`: Country code (e.g., 'us', 'uk')
- `hl`: Language code (e.g., 'en', 'es')
- `topic_token`: Token for specific news topics
- `publication_token`: Token for specific publishers
- `story_token`: Token for full coverage of a story
- `section_token`: Token for specific sections

# 🔧 Development

```bash
# Run in development mode with hot reload
npm run dev

# Run linting
npm run lint

# Run tests
npm run test
```

# 📝 License

This project is [MIT licensed](./LICENSE).

# 🙋‍♀ Author

Created and maintained by [Chan Meng](https://chanmeng.live/).
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