# APITube News

> Real-time news search across 500,000+ sources in 60+ languages with sentiment and entities.

- name: io.apitube/news
- version: 1.0.1
- connection class: R1 (autonomous)
- trust: 96/100
- quality: 82/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.apitube%2Fnews
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/io.apitube%2Fnews/tools

**An agent can connect on its own if it already holds `NEWS_TOKEN`.** Remote endpoint behind a static API key or header. The registry never sees the value; the agent fills the placeholder.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${NEWS_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Placeholders to fill: `${NEWS_TOKEN}`.

## Trust

- hygiene: 100
- liveness: 98
- freshness: 85
- provenance: 100
- drivers: +repository +namespace-matches-repo +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-95% ~updated-64d-ago
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 82/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 79 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- warn `tools.description_length`: 1 tools have descriptions over 1,024 characters, which crowds the context
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 2 of 2 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: suggest (destructiveHint, idempotentHint); search_news (destructiveHint, idempotentHint)
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 5,044 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: no tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 2, about 5,044 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: 1d3274f1ac64a1c26b4150b238c347fa
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/io.apitube/news.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/io.apitube/news)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

_No tool definition changes recorded._

## Remotes

- https://mcp.apitube.io/ (streamable-http, auth api_key ${NEWS_TOKEN}, reachable true, uptime30d 0.94736844)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (2)

- `search_news`: Search news articles using APITube News API with comprehensive filtering.

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUERY CONSTRUCTION:
1. DO NOT use dots in parameter names directly in the root object. Use nested objects instead.
2. The system will automatically convert nested objects to dot notation for the API.
   Example: Use { language: { code: "en" } } instead of { "language.code": "en" }.
3. For multiple values in one parameter, use COMMA separation (e.g., "en,ru,fr" for multiple languages).
4. Integer filters (has_*, is_*) accept ONLY 0 or 1 (e.g., has_image=1, is_duplicate=0).
5. Date format: ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).
6. Sentiment scores range: -1.0 (negative) to 1.0 (positive).
7. Default sorting: published_at DESC (newest first).
8. Unknown parameters are rejected with an error (-32602) instead of being silently ignored — check the
   spelling against the list below.
9. By default the response returns id, title, href, published_at, description and source.domain.
   The article body is NOT included — request it explicitly with fl (e.g. fl: "title,href,body").

AVAILABLE PARAMETERS:

### Content Search
- title: Search by article title (supports up to 3 keywords with comma separation)
  IMPORTANT: a title search covers at most a 31-day published_at window. Omit the dates and the
  last 31 days are searched; pass a range wider than 31 days and the call fails with 400 ER0110.
  To cover a longer period, make one call per month-sized window.
- ignore: { title: "keyword" } - Exclude articles with specific titles

### Languages (60+ supported)
- language: { code: "en,ru,fr" } - Filter by language codes (up to 3)
- ignore: { language: { code: "fr" } } - Exclude specific languages

### Categories (IPTC taxonomy)
- category: { id: "medtop:04000000" } - Filter by category ID (up to 3)
- ignore: { category: { id: "315" } } - Exclude categories

### Topics
- topic: { id: "crypto_news,climate_change" } - Filter by topic ID (up to 3)
- ignore: { topic: { id: "2" } } - Exclude topics

### Industries
- industry: { id: "246771,246772" } - Filter by industry ID (up to 3)
- ignore: { industry: { id: "246772" } } - Exclude industries

### Entities
- entity: { id: "1278268,1282301" } - Filter by entity ID (up to 3)
- ignore: { entity: { id: "315" } } - Exclude entities

### Persons
- person: { name: "Elon Musk,Tim Cook" } - Filter by person name (up to 3)
- ignore: { person: { name: "John Doe" } } - Exclude persons

### Locations
- location: { name: "Tokyo,New York" } - Filter by location (up to 3)
- ignore: { location: { name: "Paris" } } - Exclude locations

### Organizations
- organization: { name: "Tesla,Apple,Google" } - Filter by organization (up to 3)
- ignore: { organization: { name: "Microsoft" } } - Exclude organizations

### Disasters
- disaster: { name: "Earthquake,Tsunami" } - Filter by disaster type (up to 3)
- ignore: { disaster: { name: "Flood" } } - Exclude disasters

### Diseases
- disease: { name: "COVID-19,Influenza" } - Filter by disease (up to 3)
- ignore: { disease: { name: "Flu" } } - Exclude diseases

### Events
- event: { name: "Olympics,World Cup" } - Filter by event (up to 3)
- ignore: { event: { name: "Super Bowl" } } - Exclude events

### Brands
- brand: { name: "Nike,Adidas" } - Filter by brand (up to 3)
- ignore: { brand: { name: "Puma" } } - Exclude brands

### Authors
- author: { id: "123,456" } - Filter by author ID (up to 3)
- author: { name: "John Doe,Jane Smith" } - Filter by author name (up to 3)
- ignore: { author: { id: "789" } } - Exclude author IDs
- ignore: { author: { name: "Bob Jones" } } - Exclude author names
- has_author: 1 - Articles with attributed authors (0 for without)

### Sentiment Analysis
- sentiment: { overall: { score: { min: 0.5, max: 1.0 } } } - Sentiment score range
- sentiment: { overall: { polarity: "positive" | "negative" | "neutral" } } - Sentiment polarity
- sentiment: { title: { score: { min: -1.0, max: 1.0 } } } - Title sentiment
- sentiment: { body: { score: { min: -1.0, max: 1.0 } } } - Body sentiment
- sentiment: { mixed: 1 } - Articles with mixed sentiment (title/body differ)
- sentiment: { consistent: 1 } - Articles with consistent sentiment

### Media Content
- media: { images: { count: { min: 2, max: 10 } } } - Filter by image count
- media: { videos: { count: { min: 1 } } } - Filter by video count
- media: { images: { width: { min: 1200, max: 1920 } } } - Filter by image width
- media: { images: { height: { min: 800, max: 1080 } } } - Filter by image height
- has_image: 1 - Articles with at least one image
- has_video: 1 - Articles with at least one video
- has_hq_images: 1 - Articles with high-quality images (width >= 1200px)
- is_media_rich: 1 - Articles with both images and videos

### Source Filtering
- source: { id: "314,315" } - Filter by source ID (up to 3)
- source: { domain: "cnn.com,bbc.com" } - Filter by domain (up to 3)
- source: { country: { code: "us,uk,de" } } - Filter by country (up to 3)
- source: { rank: { opr: { min: 0.5, max: 0.9 } } } - OpenPageRank range (0-7)
- source: { bias: "left,center,right" } - Filter by media bias (up to 3)
- ignore: { source: { id: "315" } } - Exclude source IDs
- ignore: { source: { domain: "example.com" } } - Exclude domains
- ignore: { source: { country: { code: "fr" } } } - Exclude countries
- ignore: { source: { bias: "left" } } - Exclude biases
- is_premium_source: 1 - Premium sources (OPR >= 6)
- is_verified_source: 1 - Verified sources (OPR >= 5, not duplicates)

### Date/Time Filtering
- published_at: { start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-01-31" } - Date range
- published_at: "2024-09-26" - Specific date
- Supported formats: YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ, DD-MM-YYYY, RFC3339
- Max 31 days between start and end WHEN the same call also searches titles (title, ignore.title
  patterns or query); a wider range returns 400 ER0110. Without a title filter the range is unlimited.
- An open-ended start ({ start: "2024-01-01" } with no end) runs to the current time, so with a title
  filter it exceeds the window too — always pair an archive start with an end date.

### Sorting
- sort: { by: "published_at" | "created_at" | "source.rank.opr" | "read_time" |
         "sentiment.overall.score" | "sentiment.title.score" | "sentiment.body.score" |
         "media.images.count" | "media.videos.count" | "media.images.width.min" |
         "media.images.width.max" | "media.images.height.min" | "media.images.height.max" |
         "media_richness" | "relevance" | "engagement" | "quality" | "controversy" | "trust" }
- sort: { order: "asc" | "desc" }
- Advanced sorting: relevance (search ranking), engagement (viral potential), 
  quality (editorial), controversy (polarization), trust (credibility)

### Pagination
- page: 1 - Page number (default: 1)
- per_page: 10 - Results per page (default: 10). One response carries at most 25 articles, so a
  larger per_page is clamped to 25 — use page to walk through more.

### Content Filters
- is_duplicate: 0 - Exclude duplicates (0=unique, 1=include duplicates)
- is_paywall: 0 - Exclude paywalled content (0=free, 1=paywall)
- is_breaking: 1 - Breaking news only
- read_time: { min: 1, max: 10 } - Filter by reading time (minutes)
- is_long_read: 1 - Articles with read time >= 5 minutes
- is_short_read: 1 - Articles with read time < 3 minutes

### Field Selection (fl)
- Default (no fl): id, title, href, published_at, description, source.domain — body excluded
- fl: "id,title,source.name,published_at" - Return only specific fields
- fl: "title,href,body" - Ask for the full article text explicitly when you need to read it
- Supports nested fields with dot notation: source.name, sentiment.overall.score

### Faceting
- facet: true - Enable faceting
- facet: { field: "source.id,language.id,sentiment.overall.polarity", limit: 20, mincount: 5 }
- Supported facet fields: source.id, source.country.id, source.bias, category.id, 
  topic.id, industry.id, language.id, author.id, sentiment.*.polarity, is_duplicate, 
  is_free, is_important, media.images.count, media.videos.count, read_time, 
  published.year, published.month, published.day_of_week, published.hour

### Range Faceting
- facet: { range: { field: "published_at", start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-12-31", gap: "1MONTH" } }
- facet: { range: { field: "sentiment.overall.score", start: -1, end: 1, gap: 0.25 } }
- Date gaps: 1HOUR, 1DAY, 1WEEK, 1MONTH, 1YEAR
- Numeric gaps: 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10

### Highlighting
- hl: true - Enable highlighting
- hl: { fl: "title,description,body", fragsize: 300, snippets: 5, 
       tag: { pre: "<mark>", post: "</mark>" } }
- Auto-expands search terms using synonyms and morphology

QUERY BUILDING EXAMPLES:
- Basic search: {title: "Bitcoin", language: {code: "en"}}
- Sentiment analysis: {organization: {name: "Tesla"}, sentiment: {overall: {polarity: "positive"}}}
- High-quality sources: {source: {rank: {opr: {min: 0.7}}}, is_verified_source: 1}
- Date range (no title filter, so any width): {published_at: {start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-12-31"}}
- Title search over an archive month: {title: "Bitcoin", published_at: {start: "2024-01-01", end: "2024-01-31"}}
- Multiple filters: {title: "AI", organization: {name: "Google,Microsoft"}, language: {code: "en"}, is_breaking: 1}
- With media: {has_image: 1, media: {images: {count: {min: 2}}}}
- Sorted by engagement: {sort: {by: "engagement", order: "desc"}}
- With faceting: {facet: true, facet: {field: "source.id,language.id", limit: 10}}
- With highlighting: {title: "innovation", hl: true, hl: {fl: "title,body"}}
- Breaking news: {is_breaking: 1, sort: {by: "published_at"}}
- Long-form quality: {is_long_read: 1, sort: {by: "quality", order: "desc"}}
- `suggest`: Resolve a name or prefix to APITube taxonomy IDs so you can use them in the `search_news` tool's filters.

The `search_news` tool's most precise filters require IDs you cannot guess:
- entity.id   — numeric (persons, organizations, locations, brands, events...)
- category.id — IPTC slug, e.g. "medtop:04000000"
- topic.id    — slug
- industry.id — numeric

Use this tool FIRST to look those IDs up, then pass them into `search_news`.

USAGE:
- type: which taxonomy to autocomplete — one of "entities", "categories", "topics", "industries".
- prefix: the name (or its beginning) to search, e.g. "Tesla", "Elon", "spo".

Returns an array of matches; take the `id` of the best match and put it into `search_news`:
  suggest({ type: "entities", prefix: "Tesla" }) → [{ id: 12345, name: "Tesla, Inc.", ... }]
  search_news({ entity: { id: "12345" } })