Country News MCP server

Country News

Ranked top news headlines for any country, right now, via Google News RSS. The value over a raw news firehose is ranking: results come back in Google News' editorial-prominence order, so "latest news about China today" returns the day's top stories rather than thousands of unranked articles.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1576+ live data sources.

Tools

Auth

None.

Data sources

• Google News RSS — per-country editions via gl/ceid parameters; topic sections; scoped search with when:Nd windows.

If Google blocks datacenter egress the pack falls back to a feed proxy; via in the response says which path served it.

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/country-news/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — askpipeworx, discovertools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

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

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1576+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/country_news \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"country":"China","limit":10}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/countrynews. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/searchpacks with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "country-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-country-news

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Country News data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.