google-news-trends-mcp

Provides an MCP server plus CLI to fetch and return structured data derived from Google News RSS feeds (by keyword/location/topic/top news) and Google Trends (trending keywords by geo). Optionally summarizes/condenses articles using LLM/NLP pipelines.

Evaluated Mar 30, 2026 (22d ago)

Repo ↗ Ai Ml mcp news rss google trends summarization python

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

100

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

No authentication described; runs as an MCP server that fetches public web/RSS content. TLS is likely for outbound HTTP but not explicitly documented here. Uses multiple third-party scraping/parsing dependencies (e.g., playwright, cloudscraper, newspaper4k) which increases surface area; secret handling practices are not described in the provided content.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

You need a local/agent-facing MCP tool to retrieve public news/trends RSS content and optionally summarize it for an AI agent.

Avoid When

You require stable, documented semantics and strong guarantees about upstream Google RSS/Trends behavior or need robust, first-party authentication/security controls.

Use Cases

• Building agent workflows that monitor news topics or keywords
• Generating structured briefings from Google News RSS
• Pulling trending search terms for a specific geographic area
• RAG pre-processing: retrieving and summarizing recent articles for downstream QA/summarization

Not For

• Use as a production-grade news feed API without considering upstream changes and rate limits
• Handling of regulated/compliance-sensitive data without additional review
• Systems requiring strong authentication, auditability, and enterprise controls out of the box

Interface

REST API

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes

SDK

Webhooks

Authentication

Methods: None specified

OAuth: No Scopes: No

No authentication mechanism is described in the provided README/manifest; the MCP server appears intended to be run locally and pull public RSS/Trends data.

Pricing

Free tier: No

Requires CC: No

Open-source package (MIT) with potential indirect costs only if LLM/NLP summarization is configured and uses external model APIs.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

none

Idempotent

False

Retry Guidance

Not documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ Upstream Google RSS/Trends responses can change, causing tool failures or parsing differences
⚠ No clear documentation provided here for rate limits, timeouts, or retry/idempotency behavior
⚠ Optional LLM/NLP summarization may introduce variability and extra latency/cost depending on configuration

Alternatives

Use Google News RSS feeds directly in your own service (parser + caching) Google Trends API/third-party wrappers with your own rate limiting and retry strategy Other MCP news/trends or web-search tools that provide more standardized error contracts

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.