Google News
Search Google News for current and recent articles. No API key required. Data via SerpAPI; Smithery is not affiliated with Google.
How to connect
Same URL, five paste targets. Tools indexed · Auth required. Not a safe-to-install badge. Handshake this URL
Paste into Settings → MCP or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news": {
"url": "https://news--google.run.tools"
}
}
}
Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web. Paste the URL. Enable in a new chat.
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web
Name: Google News
URL: https://news--google.run.tools
OAuth only if this server requires it.
Save, start a new chat, enable the connector.
Developer mode custom connector. ChatGPT cannot reach localhost.
Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode ON
Create custom connector
Name: Google News
MCP server URL: https://news--google.run.tools
Auth: none unless the server requires OAuth
New chat → + → Developer mode → enable the connector
Register the HTTPS URL, then claude mcp list.
claude mcp add --transport http google-news \
https://news--google.run.tools
Pass on session/new as mcpServers when the agent advertised HTTP MCP.
[
{
"type": "http",
"name": "google-news",
"url": "https://news--google.run.tools"
}
]
Paste into a README or docs site. The widget loads snippets from Influzer — still not a SAFE badge.
Same handshake clock as this listing (overlay / warm / seed; live tools/list only if that is missing). Indigo is live_ok, amber is auth_required, gray is unreachable. Not a SAFE badge. Stdio listings have no badge.
[](https://www.influzer.ai/mcp/probe?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews--google.run.tools)
<div data-influzer-install="google-news"></div>
<script async src="https://www.influzer.ai/embed/install.js"></script>
https://www.influzer.ai/embed/mcp/google-news.md
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Listing quality
Observable facts from our catalog and daily probe — not a safe-to-install badge.
- Surface
- Tools indexed
- Live handshake
- Auth required
- Auth gate
- Auth gate
- Tools source
- tools/list (live)
Observable catalog + probe facts — not a safe-to-install badge.
Tools
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search_newsSearch Google News. Returns current articles grouped by story, with publication, date, snippet, and source URL.
Tool source: tools/list (live) · last probed 2026-10-17