MCP server

Hottub News Official

news.hottub/hottub-news

Checked 28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Worldwide news for agents: search, sync and story clusters across outlets and languages. No key.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

hottub.news (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

10

Token cost

About 2,524 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http hottub-news https://hottub.news/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.hottub-news]
url = "https://hottub.news/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"hottub-news":{"httpUrl":"https://hottub.news/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"hottub-news":{"url":"https://hottub.news/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"hottub-news":{"type":"http","url":"https://hottub.news/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add hottub-news https://hottub.news/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"hottub-news","server_url":"https://hottub.news/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"hottub-news","server_url":"https://hottub.news/mcp"}

Tools

• find_entities ~93 tokens
  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 search_news or list_stories.
• get_news_item ~64 tokens
  Full record for one item id (n_… for news, s_… for sponsored).
• get_story ~103 tokens
  Every item in a story (the `story` id on items, st_…): all outlets and languages covering the same event, newest first.
• list_sources ~84 tokens
  Registered sources with their language, country, kind and health. Filter by q (name), country or lang.
• list_stories ~163 tokens
  The most widely covered stories right now (last 48h), each with a neutral multi-source brief when available, outlet count, languages, entities and a representative report. Filter by lang, country, category, entity.
• news_stats ~63 tokens
  Item counts over the last 24 hours by kind, language, country and source, plus the current sync cursor.
• newsmap ~241 tokens
  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 PNG) and the most widely covered stories with outlet counts. Periods: YYYY-MM-DD (UTC day), YYYY-wWW (ISO week), YYYY-MM, or today, yesterday, this-week, last-wee
• quote_placement ~180 tokens
  Quote for placing a labeled, paid press release in the Hottub News mix via Hottub Business. Price varies by topic tier, current topic interest, demand, targeting reach and duration; the response itemizes each factor. Read-only: returns a price; books and charges nothing.
• search_news ~879 tokens
  Newest-first headlines from worldwide sources, optionally filtered by words, language, country, topic, source, kind and time.
• sync_news ~654 tokens
  Incremental feed: returns items added after `after`, oldest first, plus a new cursor. Call again with that cursor to get only what is new.

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