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News by Hottub

MCP serverVerified domain · hottub.newsRemote● LiveFree to try

World news for agents: stories across languages, with prospects ready for CRM by Hottub. No key.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to hottub.news. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http news-by-hottub https://hottub.news/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_news — Newest-first headlines from worldwide sources, optionally filtered by words, language, country, topic, source, kind and time.
  • sync_news — Incremental feed: returns items added after `after`, oldest first, plus a new cursor. Call again with that cursor to get only what is new.
  • list_stories — The most widely covered stories right now (last 48h), each with a neutral multi-source brief when available, outlet count, languages, entiti
  • find_entities — Look up Wikidata ids for a name (e.g. "Tesla", "Lagos") with how many items mention each in the last 7 days; pass the id as `entity` to sear
  • get_story — Every item in a story (the `story` id on items, st_…): all outlets and languages covering the same event, newest first.
  • find_prospects — The companies and people in an article or a story, ready to add to CRM by Hottub. Each has add_url (CRM by Hottub's add form, filled in; the
  • get_news_item — Full record for one item id (n_… for news, s_… for sponsored).
  • list_sources — Registered sources with their language, country, kind and health. Filter by q (name), country or lang.
  • quote_placement — Quote for placing a labeled, paid press release in the News by Hottub mix via Hottub Business. Price varies by topic tier, current topic int
  • newsmap — What the news covered in a period, for the world or a region: reports counted by publisher country (a choropleth map, as links to SVG and PN
  • live_map — The last 24 hours, country by country, like an election map: each country's leading story (the one the most of its own outlets covered), the
  • news_stats — Item counts over the last 24 hours by kind, language, country and source, plus the current sync cursor.

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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