MCP server · Event Registry

newsapi

Event Registry publishes a first-party Model Context Protocol server, newsapi-mcp, that wraps the Event Registry REST API for LLM clients. It is a LOCAL STDIO server: there is no hosted endpoint an agent can POST to. A human installs and runs it on a machine, supplying a NewsAPI.ai API key via the NEWSAPI_KEY environment variable, before any agent can use it.

View descriptor → Event Registry provider profile

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⚠ Proposed MCP surface. No official hosted MCP server was found for Event Registry. The tools below are a candidate set derived from this provider's API, and the link points at the source descriptor rather than a live server. If Event Registry publishes an official server, this page will update to it on the next build.

Provider: Event Registry Type: Candidate descriptor Transport: stdio Host: raw.githubusercontent.com

Descriptor

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/event-registry/refs/heads/main/mcp/event-registry-mcp.yml

Candidate descriptor · transport stdio

Tools

search_articles — Search articles by concepts, sources, categories, dates, language, sentiment.
get_article_details — Get full details for one or more articles by URI (up to 100 URIs per call).
search_events — Search events — clusters of related articles about the same real-world happening. Returns up to 50 events per call and deduplicates wire syndication.
get_event_details — Get full details for one or more events by URI.
get_topic_page_articles — Get articles matching a user-created topic page on newsapi.ai.
get_topic_page_events — Get events matching a user-created topic page on newsapi.ai.
suggest — Look up URIs for entities by name. Unified across concepts, categories, sources, locations and authors via the `type` parameter. Must be called before using URI filters.
get_api_usage — Check token usage and plan details for the current API key.

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