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APITube News MCP

Hosted news-intelligence server (JSON-RPC over HTTP, Bearer API key) — APITube's News API becomes an MCP server at a hosted endpoint: search articles from 500,000+ sources in 60+ languages with filters for sentiment, entities, topics, media presence, and source quality. No installation, no maintenance — add the key and ask.

Server type: Hosted remote (JSON-RPC)
Auth: Bearer API key (Authorization header)
Endpoint: https://mcp.apitube.io/
Tools: search_news, suggest
Prompts: monitor_company, topic_sentiment, breaking_news, compare_coverage
Pricing: Commercial — apitube.io API plans
Category: Content & Media
Built by: apitube.io

Why This Matters for Operators

Brand monitoring usually means a social listening subscription plus a news alerts inbox. APITube News moves the query to the assistant: "find positive news about Tesla" or "show me breaking stories about our industry from verified sources today" resolves to a structured search with entity and sentiment filtering. The shipped prompts are the operational shortcut — monitor_company tracks coverage and sentiment for a company, compare_coverage puts two subjects side by side, and breaking_news surfaces what is moving now.

The suggest tool is the quiet quality signal: it resolves names like "Tesla" to APITube entity/category/topic IDs so follow-up searches filter on canonical identifiers instead of string matching.

Tools & Capabilities

Tool Purpose
search_news Search articles with filters for language, category, sentiment, entities, media, dates, and source quality
suggest Resolve names or prefixes to entity, category, topic, and industry IDs for filtered searches
Prompt Purpose
monitor_company Recent news and sentiment about a company
topic_sentiment Sentiment breakdown of coverage on a topic
breaking_news Latest breaking stories, optionally by subject and country
compare_coverage Volume and sentiment comparison for two subjects

Protocol version negotiates from 2025-11-25 down to 2024-11-05, so current and older clients both connect.

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apitube-news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apitube.io/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

For Claude Desktop (local process launcher), bridge with mcp-remote and pass the key as --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY". Error codes are explicit: 401 ER0230 means an expired key, 403 ER0603 means the key lacks MCP tool permissions.

Business Relevance

  • Brand teams monitor company coverage and sentiment from the assistant they already use
  • Research workflows filter news by entity, language, and source quality instead of raw keyword spam
  • Executives get breaking-news briefs scoped to industries and countries on demand
  • Market intel compares coverage volume and sentiment between competitors

Integration with CorpusIQ

APITube News is the external-signal layer next to CorpusIQ's internal-data connectors: CorpusIQ tells the operator what their own business did, APITube News tells them what the market said about it and everyone else. A weekly review could pull GA4 and Stripe numbers through CorpusIQ, then run monitor_company and compare_coverage prompts through APITube News for the narrative context around the numbers.

Limitations

  • API-key pricing sits on APITube's commercial plans — verify the tier against query volume before automating
  • Sentiment is vendor-computed; treat it as signal for triage, not ground truth
  • Source quality filtering is only as good as the vendor's source registry
  • No write or alerting surface — research and monitoring reads only

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