# NewsCatcher (slim)

> NewsCatcher's API searches the last 30 days of news in every language, grouped into stories, and runs a background agent that builds tables of events or company news, through REST and a hosted MCP server.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.md (~8,550 tokens) · this version ~1,880 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-07 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**B · 67.5/100 · rank #321 of 1486 · #10 in Web search APIs · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: One key and one credit balance cover a ranked news search, a background research agent and a hosted MCP server with toolsets and annotated tools, under OpenAPI 3.1 specs and a dated changelog. The current API launched on 30 October 2026, the MCP server accepts the key in its URL, and no SLA is published below Enterprise.

## Facts

- Kind: HTTP API · vendor: NewsCatcher, Inc. · category: Web search APIs · legal entity: NewsCatcher, Inc. · provenance 85/100
- Endpoint: `https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP)
- Auth: API key · pricing: Pay per use · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Live, from our pollers (not part of the score): up at 2026-11-07 18:20 UTC · uptime 30 days 100.0% (200 probes) · p50 167 ms · p95 346 ms over 24 hours
- Vendor status page: not read, no machine-readable status found (2026-11-07 04:48 UTC)
- Surface listed: The News API and the agent at api.newscatcherapi.com and the hosted MCP server at mcp.newscatcherapi.com, read from the docs, llms.txt, the OpenAPI specs and the MCP repository, the pricing page, terms, privacy policy, sub-processors and status page on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no request was sent with a key
- One listing: One key and one credit balance cover the News API, the agent and its monitors, and the MCP server. The Enterprise v3 News API, CatchAll (sold as the Web Search API or Web Search Agent) and the Local News API are NewsCatcher's older APIs, documented under Enterprise and named here, not graded separately
- NewsMCP: newsmcp.com, 'NewsMCP by NewsCatcher', is a separate MCP product with its own site, plans and a keyless tier. It wasn't graded for this listing
- Coverage: `/search` ranks the last 30 days in every language and groups articles into stories with a newsroom count. `/articles` lists every boolean match over 12 months, up to the first 1,000. The vendor says 140,000 sources
- Full text or snippets: Each article comes with a snippet and a one-line summary. Enterprise adds entities, sentiment, themes, English translations and 1,024-value embeddings
- Agent: Event research returns a table of events, one per row, in fast, standard or max mode (about 1 to 30 minutes). Company research returns news per company domain. Monitors repeat either on a schedule and return only what is new
- Limits: Free plan 1 request a second and up to 50 results a search; pay as you go up to 10 a second. Exact limits per plan from the free `GET /subscription`
- Output rights: Internal use on Free and pay-as-you-go. Generated data is licensed perpetually for any lawful use, but not resold as a dataset, feed or API. Redistribution rights and an uptime SLA come with an Enterprise agreement
- Legal entity: NewsCatcher, Inc., a US company with a Houston, Texas mailing address, under Delaware law. Y Combinator lists it as founded in 2021, Summer 2022 batch, based in Kyiv
- Prices: News search, low effort $1 per 1,000 requests; News search, medium effort (default) $5 per 1,000 requests; News search, high effort $10 per 1,000 requests; Articles listing $5 per 1,000 requests; Agent event research, fast run $1 per transaction; Credit $0.001 per credit

- Scores: Reliability 67, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 94, Agent ergonomics 84, Security & auth 45, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 76, Transparency & trust 79 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines, for the News API, the agent and the hosted MCP server. · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.1 for the News API (version 1.3.9, 4 paths) and the agent (version 1.5.1, 33 paths), linked from llms.txt, and typed JSON Schema o… · Agent ergonomics, 15 MCP tools in four toolsets, chosen per connection with `?tools=`, and tools return compact text rather than the full JSON. · Security & auth, API keys in the `x-api-key` header, several per account, revocable in the platform, with advice to keep one per application. · Payments & pricing, No x402, MPP or L402 (0). · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service, with the MCP repository read as code. · Transparency & trust, The API is closed under terms of 2 November 2026 naming NewsCatcher, Inc., and the MCP server is MIT, so between the two bands (20 of 30).
- Sources: 19, open questions: 10, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: search.news, search.research, web.search
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/newscatcher.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/newscatcher.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/newscatcher from a page on newscatcherapi.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/Newscatcher/newscatcher-mcp, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: support@newscatcherapi.com; https://www.newscatcherapi.com/docs/get-started/overview; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Send the key in the `x-api-key` header, and use a separate key for the MCP server so it can be revoked alone
2. Call `start_research` with `dry_run` first, since agent runs cost 1,000 to 6,000 credits
3. Use `effort=low` for quick lookups; the default `medium` costs five times as much
4. Use `/articles` or `list_articles` for news older than 30 days or exact counts; `/search` covers 30 days only
5. On 429 or 503 wait for Retry-After, and quote the Correlation-ID header to support

## Connect

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.newscatcherapi.com/news-api/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $NEWSCATCHER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "hurricane recovery florida", "limit": 5}'
```

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http newscatcher https://mcp.newscatcherapi.com/mcp --header "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```
Full config and headless snippets are in the full page. Through letme (picks today, calling later): https://letme.dev/newscatcher

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