Google News Trends Mcp — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited Google News Trends Mcp (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
An MCP server that slurps data from Google News and Google Trends RSS endpoints, optionally distills it with LLM/NLP, and barfs out structured results.
When using uv no specific installation is needed. We will use uvx to directly run google-news-trends-mcp.
pip install google-news-trends-mcpAfter installation, you can run it as a script using:
python -m google_news_trends_mcpAdd to your Claude settings:
<details> <summary>Using uvx</summary>
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}</details>
<details> <summary>Using pip installation</summary>
{
"mcpServers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}</details>
<details> <summary>Using uvx</summary>
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["google-news-trends-mcp@latest"]
}
}
}
}</details>
<details> <summary>Using pip installation</summary>
{
"mcp": {
"servers": {
"google-news-trends": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "google_news_trends_mcp"]
}
}
}
}</details>
The following MCP tools are available:
| Tool Name | Description |
|---|---|
| get_news_by_keyword | Search for news using specific keywords. |
| get_news_by_location | Retrieve news relevant to a particular location. |
| get_news_by_topic | Get news based on a chosen topic. |
| get_top_news | Fetch the top news stories from Google News. |
| get_trending_keywords | Return trending keywords from Google Trends for a specified location. |
All of the news related tools have an option to summarize the text of the article using LLM Sampling (if supported) or NLP
All tools can be accessed from the command line using uv
uv run google-news-trends
Usage: google-news-trends [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Find and download news articles using Google News.
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
keyword Find articles by keyword using Google News.
location Find articles by location using Google News.
top Get top news stories from Google News.
topic Find articles by topic using Google News.
trending Returns google trends for a specific geo location.npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx google-news-trends-mcpTo run from within locally installed project
cd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run google-news-trends-mcpcd path/to/google/news/tends/mcp
python -m pytest~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.