News MCP — AP, BBC, NPR, HN, Google News Aggregator

https://server.smithery.ai/nexgendata-apify/news-mcp-server/mcp

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Five independent news sources (AP, BBC, NPR, Hacker News, Google News) behind one MCP interface. Fetch headlines on a topic across all sources, dedupe by URL, surface the underreported angles. Useful for daily briefings, research agents, and sentiment-shift detection.

Transport

streamable-http

Auth

smithery_api_key

Cost

—

Protocol revision

2024-11-05

negotiated, not declared

MCP readiness

D · 59/100

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 D, 37.0/100), which weighs availability, conformance, p95 speed and descriptor. How the two differ

Valid MCP handshake	0/10	Handshake needs credentials (HTTP 403); not readable anonymously.
Live MCP endpoint	12/25	Endpoint requires authentication or payment (9153 ms); near timeout response -3.
Protocol revision	5/10	Speaks MCP 2024-11-05, 4 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28.
Signed descriptor	n/a	No MCP standard defines a signed server descriptor.
Uptime (30 days)	15/15	31/31 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%).
Tool declaration	10/10	Lists 5 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: Near timeout (9153 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 53,021 reachable MCP servers in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 01:39 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.

Readiness: Higher than 31% of peers; This listing 59 · peer median 81
Latency: Faster than 49% of peers; This listing 337 ms · peer median 326 ms

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

Live MCP endpoint −13 — Answer initialize and tools/list at the declared endpoint.
Now: Endpoint requires authentication or payment (9153 ms); near timeout response -3.
Valid MCP handshake −10 — Complete the MCP handshake without errors.
Now: Handshake needs credentials (HTTP 403); not readable anonymously.
Protocol revision −5 — Support the current protocol revision.
Now: Speaks MCP 2024-11-05, 4 revision(s) behind 2026-07-28.

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How to connect

MCP endpoint (streamable-http)

https://server.smithery.ai/nexgendata-apify/news-mcp-server/mcp

JSON-RPC initialize probe

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

Homepage

https://thenextgennexus.com

Listed at (smithery)

https://thenextgennexus.com