MCP server

Pollar News Official

news.pollar/pollar-news

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

Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

pollar.news (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

24

Token cost

About 4,038 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 pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp

Claude Desktop

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

Codex (config.toml)

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

Gemini CLI

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

Cursor

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

VS Code

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

Antigravity

agy mcp add pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.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":"pollar-news","server_url":"https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

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

Tools

• fetch ~118 tokens
  Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.
• get_daily_brief ~164 tokens
  Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Intended only for explicit requests for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest; questions about a subject, person, place, or country belong to search_news. Loc
• get_entity ~174 tokens
  Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.
• get_event ~207 tokens
  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 summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, links to the same story in other languages, and a canonical pollar.news url. When explainer is set,
• get_explainer ~218 tokens
  Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns the question it answers, the narration beat by beat, and each beat's visual data: a map with places and coordinates, a dated timeline (entries marked next are what
• get_film ~135 tokens
  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 from the reviewed captions. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.
• get_live_moment ~148 tokens
  Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts a moment id or a story id; a story id resolves to that story's latest chapter. The result is a point-in-time read, not a stream.
• get_live_story ~140 tokens
  Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. Returns the whole multi-chapter arc; a single chapter comes from get_live_moment.
• get_markets ~174 tokens
  Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments it returns the quote catalogue; with an exact catalogue symbol, that quote's detail, and with a range, its price history.
• get_sound_episode ~181 tokens
  Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with each speaker named. Episodes still in the members-only window come without a transcript. Returns a canonical pollar.new
• get_thread ~229 tokens
  Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with limit). With withHistory, it also includes the last ten changes to the thesis. Returns the thread detail with a canonical
• list_categories ~77 tokens
  Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.
• list_explainers ~154 tokens
  Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question behind it, with maps, timelines, key figures, charts and quotes. get_explainer takes a returned eventSlug for the content.
• list_films ~140 tokens
  Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its event when one is attached. get_film takes a returned slug for the transcript.
• list_live_moments ~153 tokens
  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 belongs to a multi-chapter story carries its storyId and chapterIndex, and chapters of one story come in chapter order. get_live_moment takes a returned id for th
• list_live_stories ~162 tokens
  Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a story has unfolded (for example, a strike with three chapters over 48 hours) rather than single moments. get_live_moment takes a returned story id for the curren
• list_sounds ~134 tokens
  Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access 'early' are for Pollar members until publicAt. get_sound_episode takes a returned slug for the transcript and sources.
• list_threads ~125 tokens
  Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Suited to discovering long-running topics; get_thread takes a returned id for the detail.
• list_top_news ~198 tokens
  Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country; subject and geographic requests belong to search_news. Can filter by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; valid pa
• list_trending_entities ~178 tokens
  Lists the people, organisations or places most present in Pollar's recent coverage, ranked by recent mentions. Suited to questions like who is in the news this week; get_entity takes a returned person or organization slug for the profile and timeline.
• news_near ~250 tokens
  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 English, Polish, German or French, with an optional country for ambiguous names. A whole country, a region or a topic is a job for search_news.
• render_news_list ~191 tokens
  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 displayed exactly as given.
• search ~180 tokens
  Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Suited to queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country, with that subject or place as the query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. fetch takes a returned id
• search_news ~208 tokens
  Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland); the subject or place goes in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Current headlines

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