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Echonews MCP for Claude

Structured news intelligence for your conversations and research

Connect Claude to more than 4,000 monitored sources across Telegram, X and RSS. Echonews continuously groups reporting about the same event into deduplicated Stories with English-normalized titles and summaries.

Discover the latest and trending Stories, search by wording or meaning, inspect original Posts and translations, and explore sources and categories through seven read-only MCP tools.

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MCP at a glance

4,000+

monitored sources

read-only MCP tools

source types: X, Telegram, RSS

Read-only

no tools modify data

Connect in Claude

Add Echonews as a custom web connector in a supported hosted Claude client. Labels can vary slightly by app version.

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Open Claude → Customize → Connectors → Add → Custom → Web.
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Use the name Echonews News Intelligence.
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Enter the remote MCP URL shown here.
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Choose No sign in for the supported hosted Claude connection.
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Confirm all seven read-only tools are visible and enabled, then start a conversation.

Remote MCP URL

https://api.echonews.io/mcp

Connector Directory

Once published in the Claude Connectors Directory, you may install the listed connector there instead of adding the URL manually.

What you can ask Claude

Ask in your preferred language. For search_news, Claude should translate the search query to English before sending it to the English-language Story index.

“What are the latest major news stories from France? Include original sources and timestamps.”

“Find recent developments in US–China trade policy and show supporting posts from Telegram and X.”

“What is trending in business news today?”

“Compare coverage of recent AI regulation across different publishers.”

“Show the original-language Telegram messages and English translations for this story, where available.”

Seven read-only tools

Tool	What it does
`get_latest_news`	Retrieve recent or historical Stories; filter and page through results.
`get_trending_news`	Retrieve popularity-ranked Stories.
`search_news`	Find English-normalized Stories by keyword, semantic meaning, or both.
`get_story_details`	Inspect a Story's details, mention counts and media counts.
`get_story_sources`	Retrieve source Posts, related publisher information, original text and available English translations.
`find_news_sources`	Search source publishers and retrieve source metadata.
`browse_news_catalog`	Discover categories, subcategories, source coverage locations and compact source records.

How the news is organized

Stories

Stable, deduplicated news events assembled from related Posts. A Story has English-normalized text, a category, optional subcategories and timestamps, and can evolve as new Posts are collected.

Posts

Individual Telegram messages, X posts or RSS entries. They may include a source link, language, timestamp, original text, an available English translation and media metadata. RSS text is often a feed description rather than the full article.

Sources

The originating channels, accounts or RSS feeds. A Source's geographic coverage describes the publisher's focus, not necessarily the location of an event.

Search and filtering

keyword

Match explicit terms and retrieve older material when it is available.

semantic

Match meaning across an approximate recent-history window, currently around 35 days.

hybrid

Combine explicit terms and semantic meaning in one Story search.

Available filters

Dates
Categories and subcategories
Source IDs and source types
Source coverage
Post languages
Source verification status

Query and pagination notes

Search queries must be English even when Claude answers in another language. Results can be sorted by relevance or update time. Feeds use opaque continuation cursors; pass a returned cursor unchanged to retrieve the next page.

Typical research workflow

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Search with search_news, or retrieve recent Stories with get_latest_news.
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Choose a Story ID and call get_story_details for additional context.
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Call get_story_sources to inspect original Posts, source links, timestamps and optional text expansion.
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Use find_news_sources to investigate publishers, or browse_news_catalog to refine future filters.
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Follow source links and corroborate consequential claims independently.

Troubleshooting

Connector does not connect

Verify the exact HTTPS URL, try disconnecting and reconnecting, and check service availability. The no-sign-in integration is designed for hosted Claude connections and may not work as an anonymous HTTP client from an arbitrary network.

A search returns irrelevant or no results

Ask Claude to issue a natural-English search query, simplify the topic, switch between keyword, semantic and hybrid modes, or relax filters and date ranges.

A Story has fewer Posts than expected

Fetch the next page if the returned cursor indicates more data. Text expansion is opt-in and limited.

A claim looks questionable

Open the original source URLs and compare independent reporting. Verification reflects source-platform signals, not independent fact-checking.

Get started

Give Claude source-linked news intelligence

Add the remote MCP URL in Claude, enable the seven tools, and ask your first research question. For direct integrations or API-key access, contact the Echonews team.

Remote MCP URL

https://api.echonews.io/mcp

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