Hosted MCP server for the [APITube](https://apitube.io) News API. It gives an assistant live and archived news from 500,000+ verified sources across 180+ countries in 60+ languages, already enriched: sentiment, entities (people, organizations, locations, brands, events), IPTC categories, topics and industries. No crawler, no HTML parsing, no local process to run. ## Tools - **search_news** — search articles with the full APITube filter set: keywords, language, country, source domain, source quality rank (OPR), sentiment, entity, media presence, date ranges, sorting (published_at, relevance, engagement, quality) and facets. - **suggest** — turn a name or prefix ("Tesla") into the APITube entity, category, topic or industry ID that `search_news` filters on. ## Prompts `monitor_company`, `topic_sentiment`, `breaking_news`, `compare_coverage`. ## Connection Remote server, nothing to install: Streamable HTTP at `https://mcp.apitube.io/`, authenticated with an `X-API-Key` header (an `Authorization: Bearer <key>` header works too). Protocol `2025-11-25`, negotiates down to `2024-11-05` for older clients. stdio-only clients such as Claude Desktop can bridge with `mcp-remote`. ## What it is for - media and brand monitoring across languages, with sentiment attached - market and financial intelligence filtered by entity, industry and sentiment - RAG pipelines and agents that need a current, structured news corpus - research and backtesting against historical coverage ## Access APITube's free tier is 100 requests/day; the MCP server requires a paid plan, from $29/month. Keys and plans: [apitube.io/pricing](https://apitube.io/pricing). Docs: [docs.apitube.io](https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/ai/mcp-server).

MCP readiness

B · 81/100

Readiness is how fully this listing follows its protocol and how it behaved in our probes over 30 days. It is shown for reference and does not move it in search. Search order and leaderboards use the separate quality grade (here C+, 70.0/100), which weighs availability, conformance, p95 speed and descriptor. How the two differ

Valid MCP handshake	10/10	initialize and tools/list both answered.
Live MCP endpoint	24/25	Endpoint answers the MCP initialize handshake (2842 ms); slow response -1.
Protocol revision	8/10	Speaks MCP 2025-11-25, 1 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28.
Signed descriptor	n/a	No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor.
Uptime (30 days)	15/15	30/30 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%).
Tool declaration	5/10	Lists 2 tool(s) with descriptions.
Verified identity	5/10	Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control.
Freshness + modern flags	4/5	seen in a source within 7 days.
Auth declaration	2/5	Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key.

Applicable criteria total 90 points, scaled to 100.

Responsiveness: Slow (2842 ms; bands ≤2.5 s, ≤5 s, ≤8 s, slower; penalty only).

Measured 2026-11-11.

Nine criteria, the same as the A2A readiness score, read from our daily MCP probe (initialize + tools/list) and 30-day probe history. No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor, so that criterion is n/a and the other 90 points are scaled to 100. Grades: A>=90, B>=75, C>=60, D>=40, F<40. Display only: search order uses the quality grade.

Compared with peers

Against 53,039 reachable MCP servers in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 06:46 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.

Readiness: Higher than 52% of peers; This listing 81 · peer median 81
Latency: Faster than 14% of peers; This listing 757 ms · peer median 326 ms

Where it loses the most points, and how to win them back

Tool declaration −5 — Declare every tool with a description and input schema.
Now: Lists 2 tool(s) with descriptions.
Verified identity −5 — Claim the listing and prove control of its domain.
Now: Publisher declared (repository, package or homepage); claim this listing to verify domain control.
Auth declaration −3 — State how to authenticate (an auth scheme, or that none is needed).
Now: Declares credential scheme: smithery_api_key.

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Listed in

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smithery since 2026-08-15 ↗

How to connect

MCP endpoint (streamable-http)

https://server.smithery.ai/apitube/apitube-news/mcp

JSON-RPC initialize probe

curl -X POST https://server.smithery.ai/apitube/apitube-news/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'

Homepage

https://apitube.io

Listed at (smithery)

https://apitube.io