World news api
The World News API gives you access to thousands of news sources in over 50 languages from over 150 countries.
Verdict
Common use cases
- Monitor competitor mentions in global press
- Pull breaking news into morning briefings
- Extract article metadata for content research
- Convert news sites to RSS for aggregation
- Verify if a source is tracked by API
Integration
- Vendor
- World news api
- Category
- other
- Auth
- API_KEY
- Tools
- 6
- Composio slug
world_news_api
Tools
- Extract News
Tool to extract a news article from a website to a well-structured JSON object. Use when you need to extract structured data from a news article URL, including title, text, images, videos, publish date, authors, language, and sentiment.
- Extract News Links
Tool to extract news article links from a website or webpage. Use when you need to discover all news article URLs on a page, with optional filtering by URL prefix and subdomain inclusion.
- Get Geo Coordinates
Tool to retrieve latitude and longitude of a location name. Use when you need geographic coordinates to fill the location-filter parameter in news search operations.
- Get Top News
Tool to get the top news from a country in a specific language for a given date. The top news are clustered from multiple sources in the specified country. Use when you need to retrieve current or historical top news headlines and articles.
- News Website to RSS Feed
Tool to convert any news website page into an RSS feed. Provide a URL to a news website page and get back an RSS feed with the latest news from that page. Use when you need to create an RSS feed from a news website that doesn't provide one
- Search News Sources
Tool to search whether a news source is being monitored by the World News API. Use when you need to check if a specific news source is available in the system.
Setup
Setup guide
- 11. Open your Switchy workspace settings and navigate to the Integrations tab. 2. Find World News API in the MCP directory and click Connect. 3. You'll be prompted to enter an API key — get yours from worldnewsapi.com after creating a free or paid account. 4. Paste the key into Switchy and click Save. 5. Open any Space and type '@World News API get top news from United States' to test the connection. 6. If the tool returns headlines, you're live — the MCP will now respond to @mentions in any Space where you invoke it. 7. Check your World News API dashboard for usage limits and upgrade if your team hits the free tier cap.
What teammates see: by default, memories from World news api are scoped to the Space (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.
Works well with
Top models
Compatibility data appears once enough Spaces have used this MCP together with a given model.
How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
Top Tech Headlines
@World News API get the top 5 technology news stories from the United States todayOpen in a Space →
Extract Article Data
@World News API extract the full article content from this URL: [paste link]Open in a Space →
Find News Links
@World News API extract all news article links from https://example-news-site.comOpen in a Space →
Check Source Availability
@World News API search for news sources matching 'Reuters' to see if they're monitoredOpen in a Space →
Create RSS Feed
@World News API turn this news page into an RSS feed: [paste URL]Open in a Space →
Example outputs
Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.
@worldnewsapi get the top news stories from Germany in German for today, focusing on technology topics
Here are today's top technology stories from German sources: 1) 'Neue KI-Regulierung tritt in Kraft' (Spiegel Online) — covers EU AI Act implementation; 2) 'Tesla eröffnet Gigafactory-Erweiterung' (Handelsblatt) — reports on Berlin facility expansion; 3) 'Cybersecurity-Lücke bei Bundesbehörden entdeckt' (Heise Online) — details government infrastructure vulnerability. Each story includes publication time, source credibility rating, and a brief summary. This is an illustrative example; actual results depend on the day's news cycle and available sources.
This example shows the MCP's clustering capability — it aggregates stories from multiple German outlets and ranks them by relevance. Requires an API key with sufficient quota; the free tier may limit requests to 100/day. Results are language-specific, so the prompt's 'in German' instruction ensures you get native-language content rather than translations.
@worldnewsapi extract the full article content from this BBC link including all images and the publish date: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-12345678
Extracted article: Title: 'Quantum Computing Breakthrough Announced by IBM' | Published: 2024-01-15 14:32 UTC | Author: Jane Chen | Full text: 1,247 words covering IBM's 1,000-qubit processor announcement, industry reactions, and technical specifications. Images: 3 (processor photo, comparison chart, lab facility). Videos: 1 embedded YouTube explainer. The structured JSON includes metadata like word count, reading time estimate (5 min), and detected entities (IBM, quantum computing, semiconductor industry). This illustrative example shows typical extraction depth; actual results vary by site structure.
Demonstrates the MCP's ability to parse complex news pages into clean, structured data — useful for archiving or feeding content into other workflows. Some paywalled sites may return partial content only. The extraction respects the site's robots.txt, so certain outlets (especially those blocking scrapers) may fail. Always verify you have rights to extract and store the content.
@worldnewsapi search for news sources covering renewable energy, then check if 'CleanTechnica' and 'Renewable Energy World' are in your monitored list
Search results: 'CleanTechnica' is actively monitored (added 2022-03, updates hourly, 847 articles indexed this month). 'Renewable Energy World' is also monitored (added 2021-11, updates every 2 hours, 612 articles indexed this month). Both sources are tagged under 'environment' and 'technology' categories. You can now use these source names as filters in subsequent news searches to get targeted results from these outlets. This illustrative example shows how source verification works; the actual index includes thousands of outlets across languages.
This example pairs two tools — searching for sources by topic, then verifying specific outlets. Useful before setting up RSS feeds or filtered searches to confirm the MCP actually tracks your preferred publications. The monitored-source list updates periodically, so niche or newly launched outlets may not appear. If a source isn't indexed, you can still use 'extract news links' to pull articles directly from its homepage.
Use-case deep-dives
When you need geo-filtered news for distributed leadership
A 5-person exec team spread across US, UK, and Singapore wants a single Slack thread each morning with top regional headlines relevant to their SaaS vertical. World News API wins here because Get Top News pulls country-specific clusters and Get Geo Coordinates lets you filter by metro area without writing scrapers. The Extract News tool means you can pull full article text into the thread so no one clicks out to paywalled sites. This works until you need more than 6 countries or want sub-hourly updates—at that scale you're better off with a dedicated media monitoring service. If your team checks news once a day and needs clean structured output, this MCP delivers without vendor lock-in.
Why this MCP falls short for real-time brand monitoring
A 3-person product team wants to track every time a competitor gets mentioned in tech press so they can react to feature launches. World News API isn't the right call. The Search News Sources tool only checks if a source exists in the system—it doesn't run keyword alerts or push notifications. You'd need to poll manually or build your own scheduler, and the 6-tool limit means no sentiment analysis or duplicate filtering. If you're tracking fewer than 10 sources and can check once a day, Extract News Links plus a Notion database might work. But for anything resembling real-time competitor intel, you need a purpose-built media monitoring tool with webhooks. Save this MCP for structured one-off research, not ongoing surveillance.
When RSS conversion beats manual link collection
A 2-person content agency sends 8 clients weekly industry newsletters, each pulling from 4-6 niche trade publications that don't offer RSS feeds. News Website to RSS Feed solves this: point it at a publication's homepage, get a structured feed, pipe it into your newsletter tool. The Extract News tool means you can preview full article text before including a link, and Get Top News helps you spot trending topics across regions when a client operates internationally. This breaks down if a publication changes its HTML structure frequently or if you need more than basic title-and-link extraction. But for small agencies curating 30-50 articles a week from stable sources, this MCP cuts manual copy-paste time by 80 percent and keeps your API key in one place.
Frequently asked
What does the World News API MCP do in Switchy?
It pulls news articles from thousands of sources worldwide, extracts structured data from URLs, and converts news pages into RSS feeds. Your team can search current or historical headlines by country and language, get geographic coordinates for location-based searches, and verify which news sources the API monitors. Useful for research, content aggregation, or building news-aware workflows.
Do I need a paid World News API key to connect this MCP?
Yes. You need an API key from worldnewsapi.com, which requires a paid subscription after the free trial. Paste the key into Switchy's connection settings. No OAuth dance—just the key. Anyone on your team with the key can connect it, but treat it like a password: one leaked key means anyone can burn through your API quota.
Can this MCP publish articles or post to social media?
No. It only reads and extracts news content. You can pull headlines, scrape article text, or generate RSS feeds, but it won't write articles, post to Twitter, or send newsletters. If you need to act on the news data, chain this MCP with something like Slack or a CRM to route findings to your team.
Why use this MCP instead of scraping news sites directly?
World News API handles rate limits, paywalls, and site structure changes across thousands of sources. Scraping yourself means writing parsers for each site, dealing with bot detection, and maintaining code when layouts change. This MCP abstracts that mess into six tools. Trade-off: you're limited to sources the vendor monitors, and you pay per API call.
Who on the team should connect the World News API MCP?
Whoever owns your World News API account and understands your quota limits. Each API call costs credits, so the person connecting it should know which tools burn through quota fastest—Extract News and Search News are heavier than Get Geo Coordinates. If multiple people need access, share the connection in Switchy rather than creating duplicate keys.