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Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.
Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.pollar.news. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_news — Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or clist_top_news — Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with news_near — Lists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km. Accepts the place name in Englget_event — Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summget_daily_brief — Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts.list_threads — Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Suitget_thread — Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with ciget_entity — Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists reclist_trending_entities — Lists the people, organisations or places most present in Pollar's recent coverage, ranked by recent mentions. Suited to questions like who get_markets — Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments list_live_moments — Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours. A moment that belist_live_stories — Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a sget_live_moment — Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts a moment id or a storyget_live_story — Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. list_categories — Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.search — Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Suited to queries about a subject, persfetch — Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the articlist_explainers — Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question beget_explainer — Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns thelist_sounds — Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access get_sound_episode — Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full tlist_films — Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its eveget_film — Fetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken render_news_list — Shows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list. Titles and canonical URLs are disNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.