Free keyless access with no signup. Five tools return one clustered record per story instead of dozens of near-identical article links
NewsCatcher today launched NewsMCP, a news MCP server that gives AI agents live news as deduplicated story events rather than article links. It is free to use, with no account required.
An API serves a pipeline, where big payloads are features. An MCP server serves a model mid-conversation, where every token competes with everything else in context. Same data, opposite constraints.”
— Artem Bugara
When an AI assistant is asked about current events, it typically runs a web search and receives dozens of links describing the same story. The model then spends its limited context window reading near-identical coverage. NewsMCP changes the unit of retrieval: every outlet covering the same story is clustered into a single event with citations, so an agent reads one record instead of thirty.
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Each event carries a count of how many newsrooms reported the story independently, with syndicated reprints excluded, giving agents a corroboration signal they can use to weigh how widely a claim has actually been reported.
“An API and an MCP server look like the same problem, and they aren’t,” said Artem Bugara, Co-founder of NewsCatcher. “An API serves a pipeline, where large payloads and full article text are features, because your code parses what it needs. An MCP server serves a language model mid-conversation, where every token in the response competes with everything else in its context. Same data, opposite constraints. So we didn’t wrap our existing News API. We built a separate product from the question of what a model actually needs to answer a news question.”
NewsMCP provides five read-only tools: news for searching story events, get_story for expanding one, check_coverage for assessing how widely a claim has been reported, and check_limits and check_health for diagnostics. Article body text is never returned; agents follow a source link when they need the full piece.
The service works without registration. The keyless tier allows 20 calls per hour, a seven-day lookback and 20 stories per call. A free API key extends this to 50 calls per hour, a fourteen-day lookback and 50 stories per call. Commercial use is permitted on every tier, including keyless.
NewsMCP is available now at newsmcp.com, with a browser-based playground requiring no account, one-step setup for Claude Code and Cursor, and a REST interface for agents not using MCP.
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