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Google News MCP Tools for AI Agents

Let an agent search Google News for current stories about a topic, event, company, or person.

Available Tools

1 tools available in this integration

GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories

Search for news articles related to a given query.

Why agent-optimized tools matter

Built for intent, not API schemas

Ask the agent to "find the latest reporting on the companies I name and return the most relevant articles." Arcade helps it use Google News without guessing the request shape or raw API details.

Up to 100x fewer tokens

Google News search returns the stories matched to a query, so the agent can review relevant headlines and sources without loading unrelated web pages or a whole news index into the model.

Complete the workflow end to end

Search a topic, refine the query, compare the returned headlines, and summarize the relevant coverage through one toolkit designed around the complete news-discovery task.

Make actions predictable and controlled

Arcade tools return structured results and useful errors across users and runs. Teams can apply scope restrictions, redaction, and approval policies so agents follow the same controls every time.

Securing Google News

The more capabilities agents get, the more useful they are. However, more capabilities bring more risks of undesired effects such as data loss and exfiltration.

This is why Arcade provides you with contextual rules that dictate how and when a tool is allowed to run. Arcade’s contextual access lets you govern tool visibility and behavior at every stage of execution and control who can see a tool, what inputs are allowed, and what comes back.

Learn about Contextual Access Policies

For Google News, you can implement some of these policies:

Access when tools are listed for a user
  • Decide which tools an agent is allowed to see at all. A tool that is never listed cannot be called, whoever is asking.
Pre-execution before each tool call
  • Inspect the inputs a call is about to run with, and block it or send it for human approval when they fall outside what the agent should do unsupervised.
Post-execution after the tool returns
  • Redact phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses from the article titles and snippets returned by GoogleNews.SearchNewsStories before they reach the model.

How to use Google News with your agent

Pick your MCP client below and follow the setup to connect your agent to Google News with one shared API key.

Your questions, answered

A Google News MCP server exposes news search as a structured action that an AI agent can call through the Model Context Protocol. With it, an agent can search for stories related to a query and return matching articles.

Google News does not provide a first-party MCP server through this integration. Arcade provides the MCP access layer, shared-key authentication, runtime controls, approval policies, redaction, and one connection that works across supported clients.

Arcade agents can search Google News for articles related to a query. This integration is read-only; it does not publish, save, share, or modify news stories.

This integration uses a shared API key or secret configured once. It does not request per-user Google News permissions; the configured credential determines what the search access can reach.

No. Google News access uses one shared API key or secret configured for the integration, rather than having each user connect a separate Google News account. Arcade brokers the credential, and the model does not receive it.

Yes. Contextual Access policies can require human approval before a Google News search or any other consequential call. The call proceeds only after the policy's conditions have been satisfied, although this integration's search action is read-only.

Arcade proxies Google News API calls and does not persist your content as part of normal tool execution. The shared credential is brokered and stored encrypted at rest, and the model never receives it.

Any framework or client that can connect to Arcade's MCP gateway or tool APIs works, including LangChain, OpenAI Agents, CrewAI, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and GitHub Copilot.

Arcade refreshes access while the configured authorization remains valid. If the shared key or secret is revoked, rotated, or can no longer be used, searches stop until the credential is reconnected or updated.

Searches remain subject to the rate limits and quotas imposed by the underlying Google News access and the configured credential. Exact limits depend on that access and are not specified here.

Ready to actually ship your agent?

Connect your agent to Google News with a shared API key, agent-optimized tools and approval controls for consequential actions.

Build Your Agent Read the Google News Quickstart