Integration

NewsCatcher Local News API integration

NewsCatcher Local News API finds local news articles tied to specific places: keyword search and latest headlines filtered by city and state ("San Francisco, California") or by structured GeoNames criteria (administrative divisions, coordinates, feature class, localization and confidence scores), articles by link, ID or RSS GUID, and the list of local sources, with language, source, theme, sentiment and named entity filters and optional clustering. Every tool sends its parameters as a JSON body. Authentication is the API key of a Local News API plan, sent in the x-api-token header; the News API and CatchAll are separate subscriptions on their own hosts.

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When this happens, do that in NewsCatcher Local News API.Built from the 6 NewsCatcher Local News API tools below, on the connection you add once.

What you can do with NewsCatcher Local News API

Each of these is one operation on one endpoint, available both as a workflow step and as a tool an AI agent can call on its own. Nothing bundles several operations into one action, so what a run did stays readable afterwards.

Most endpoints run on the free plan. A few, mainly the ones that publish on your behalf, need a paid plan.

Advanced, 2 operations

get_local_latest_headlines_by_geonamesGet local latest headlines by geonamesPOSTReturns the latest local news articles for structured GeoNames filters (place name or GeoNames ID, administrative divisions, coordinates, feature class, localization and confidence scores) over a time window (when, 7d by default).
search_local_news_by_geonamesSearch local news by geonamesPOSTSearches local news articles by keywords and structured GeoNames filters (place name or GeoNames ID, administrative divisions, coordinates, feature class, localization and confidence scores). Each article lists the GeoNames places it was matched to.

Latest headline, 1 operation

get_local_latest_headlinesGet local latest headlinesPOSTReturns the latest local news articles for places written as "City, State" (locations) over a time window (when: 7d by default, or 1h, 24h, 30d...), with language, source, theme, sentiment and entity filters and optional clustering.

Search, 1 operation

search_local_newsSearch local newsPOSTSearches local news articles by keywords and by places written as "City, State" (locations), with the location detection methods to accept, language, source, theme, sentiment and entity filters. Returns articles, or clusters when clustering is true.

Search by, 1 operation

get_local_articles_by_identifiersGet local articles by identifiersPOSTReturns local news articles by their article URLs, NewsCatcher article IDs or RSS GUIDs (at least one of links, ids or rss_guids), optionally within a date range.

Source, 1 operation

list_local_sourcesList local sourcesPOSTLists the local news sources NewsCatcher indexes, filtered by language, country and theme.

Use NewsCatcher Local News API from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex

Connect NewsCatcher Local News API in LiveContext, create an API key in Settings, then add the LiveContext MCP server to your client. Its NewsCatcher Local News API operations become tools the client can call, next to every other integration you connected.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http livecontext https://livecontext.ai/mcp --header "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

[mcp_servers.livecontext]
url = "https://livecontext.ai/mcp"

[mcp_servers.livecontext.http_headers]
"X-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY"

Cursor, Claude Desktop and other JSON configs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "livecontext": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://livecontext.ai/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

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How to connect NewsCatcher Local News API

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Connect NewsCatcher Local News API once
Add your NewsCatcher Local News API connection in Settings. Every tool from this integration reuses it, and secrets are encrypted at rest and visible only to you.
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