Google News & Trends MCP server

The Google News Trends MCP server provides access to Google News and Google Trends data through a structured API, allowing you to retrieve news articles based on keywords, location, or topics, as well as trending search terms. It can optionally process content using language models for summarization.

Installation Options

Using uv/uvx (Recommended)

With uv, no specific installation is needed. You can directly run the server using uvx:

uvx google-news-trends-mcp@latest

Using PIP

Install the package using pip:

pip install google-news-trends-mcp

After installation, run it as a script:

python -m google_news_trends_mcp

Configuration

Setting Up with Claude.app

Add the server to your Claude settings:

When using uvx:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news-trends": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

When using pip installation:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news-trends": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Setting Up with VS Code

When using uvx:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "google-news-trends": {
        "command": "uvx",
        "args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
      }
    }
  }
}

When using pip installation:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "google-news-trends": {
        "command": "python",
        "args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

The MCP server provides the following tools:

Tool Name	Description
get_news_by_keyword	Search for news using specific keywords
get_news_by_location	Retrieve news relevant to a particular location
get_news_by_topic	Get news based on a chosen topic
get_top_news	Fetch the top news stories from Google News
get_trending_keywords	Return trending keywords from Google Trends for a specified location

All news-related tools include an option to summarize article text using LLM or NLP techniques.

Command-Line Usage

You can access all tools from the command line using uv:

uv run google-news-trends

This displays usage information:

Usage: google-news-trends [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Find and download news articles using Google News.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  keyword   Find articles by keyword using Google News.
  location  Find articles by location using Google News.
  top       Get top news stories from Google News.
  topic     Find articles by topic using Google News.
  trending  Returns google trends for a specific geo location.

Debugging

If you need to debug the server, use the MCP inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx google-news-trends-mcp

To run from within a locally installed project:

cd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run google-news-trends-mcp

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "google-news-trends" '{"command":"uvx","args":["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "google-news-trends": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "google-news-trends-mcp@latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "google-news-trends": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "google-news-trends-mcp@latest"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect