Pollar News MCP server
Independent European news from Pollar: search, brief, threads, markets. Read-only, no login.
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Pollar News tools (16)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsfetchFreeFetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.
get_daily_briefFreeFetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Use only when the user explicitly asks for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest. Do not use it for questions about a subject, person, place, or country; use search_news instead. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.
get_entityFreeFetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug. Set withTimeline to include recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.
get_eventFreeFetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, and a canonical pollar.news url to cite.
get_live_momentFreeFetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts either a moment id or a story id; story ids resolve to the latest chapter of that story. This is a point-in-time read rather than a stream. Wait at least 30 seconds before refreshing.
get_live_storyFreeFetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active/developing/concluded/dormant) and ordered chapters. Use this when you want the multi-chapter arc, not the latest chapter alone. For a single chapter, use get_live_moment.
get_marketsFreeReturns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. With no arguments, returns the quote catalogue. Pass an exact catalogue symbol for detail and an optional range for history.
get_threadFreeFetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and recent chronicle entries with citations. Set withHistory=true to also include how the thesis evolved over time. Returns the thread detail with a canonical url.
list_categoriesFreeReturns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts. Use it to discover valid category dot-paths before filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.
list_live_momentsFreeLists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments. Use to discover what is breaking now or what ended within the past 24 hours. Each moment carries story metadata (storyId, chapterIndex) when it belongs to a multi-chapter story — chapters of the same continuing narrative are returned in chapter order. Pass a returned id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot.
list_live_storiesFreeLists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories. Each story has an umbrella title and one or more chapters ordered by chapter index. Use this when you want to surface the narrative arc — e.g. 'this strike has had three chapters over 48 hours' — rather than each moment in isolation. Pass a returned story id to get_live_moment for the current snapshot (it accepts both story ids and individual moment ids).
list_threadsFreeLists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Use to discover long-running topics. Pass a returned id to get_thread for detail.
list_top_newsFreeLists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Use for broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country. For a subject or geographic request, use search_news instead. Optionally filters by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; call list_categories first when the category is unknown.
render_news_listFreeRenders selected stories already returned by search_news, list_top_news, or search. Call one of those tools first, then pass up to 10 relevant results without changing their titles or canonical URLs.
searchFreeSearches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Use for queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country; put that subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Pass an id to fetch to read the article.
search_newsFreeSearches Pollar's news archive using semantic and keyword matching. Use for any subject-specific query, including a person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland). Put the subject or place in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. For current headlines with no subject or place, use list_top_news.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.9 · 2026-09-26 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 2687ms17/20
- Tool poisoning16 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
- Maintenanceno repository listed3/15
- Maintainer identityno repository or website to verify2/10
Findings (1)
- lowNo source repository listed
maint.no-repo
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claude mcp add --transport http pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp
Pollar News: common questions
- Is Pollar News MCP server safe?
- With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (63/100). Read the Pollar News safety report
- How do I install Pollar News?
- It runs remotely at mcp.pollar.news. Add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Pollar News need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Pollar News maintained?
- The latest release is v1.0.0.
- Is Pollar News up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Pollar News?
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