Bing News MCP server

@pipeworx/bing-news

Keyword news search via Bing News RSS — a third, independent news source (different vendor and infrastructure from Google News/country-news and GDELT/gdelt), returning recent matching articles ranked by Bing with the real article link, publish time, source publication and a short description.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1745+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

returns up to limit (1-50, default 20) matching articles: title, link (the real destination article URL, not Bing's tracking redirect), description, published (RFC-822), source (the publication name).

• bingnewssearch(query, limit?) — searches Bing News for query and

Auth

Keyless. No registration, no API key, no rate-limit documented by Bing for this endpoint.

Data sources

search, RSS output. Not a documented/versioned API — it is the same feed a browser gets from the "News" tab's RSS link, so its shape can change without notice the way any scraped HTML/XML can.

• https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=&format=rss — Bing's own news

Rediscoverable-the-hard-way notes:

Bing wraps every result as https://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref= ...&url= followed by the percent-encoded real article URL and more tracking params. The real destination is the value of that url query param, and it is present and decodable on every item observed (verified live 2026-10-09 against 5 search results — msn.com, finance.yahoo.com, pulse2.com). realArticleUrl() decodes it; this pack returns the decoded URL as link, never the apiclick wrapper. If Bing ever omits the url param, the code falls back to the raw link rather than dropping the item.

• The link element is a tracking-redirect wrapper, not the article URL.

source element — easy to miss if you copy a generic RSS-item parser from another pack (country-news's Google News feed has no equivalent element at all; it comes from a different field).

• The source element is namespaced. It is News:Source, not a plain

CAPTCHA/anti-bot challenge page can come back with HTTP 200 and content-type: application/xml or text/html instead of the RSS feed — guarded here by checking for a literal <item tag before parsing, so that case surfaces as a loud failure rather than a silent empty result.

• A 200 is not proof of a real result. Like GDELT and Google News, a

live 2026-10-09 from a throwaway wrangler dev --remote Worker on the prod account: bing.com/news/search answered the Worker's own egress HTTP 200, 10,393 bytes, well-formed RSS. Unlike country-news (Google News blocks CF egress outright), this pack's direct fetch is not currently routed through the shared Supabase egress relay — the relay-fallback code exists (same proxyUrl/proxyToken convention as country-news/gdelt) but nothing in the gateway injects those args for this pack's slug, because nothing has needed to yet. Re-probe before assuming that's still true months later.

• Cloudflare Workers egress is NOT blocked for this endpoint — edge-probed

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bing-news": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/bing-news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.