# The Guardian

> Use this tool when you need to access and analyze The Guardian newspaper's content, solving problems like research, content analysis, and news monitoring by providing comprehensive search, retrieval, and analytical capabilities through a flexible API interface that accepts search queries and date ranges, and outputs full articles, author profiles, and topic trends. It is ideal for journalism research, content analysis workflows, and building AI-powered news assistants. The tool offers 17 specialized tools for advanced operations like story ranking and topic trend analysis.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jbenton-guardianda7e  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jbenton-guardianda7e

## Description

This MCP server provides comprehensive access to The Guardian newspaper's content through their Open Platform API, enabling AI assistants to search articles, retrieve full content, browse sections, and perform advanced analytical operations like author profiling and topic trend analysis. Built by Joshua Benton using TypeScript with the Model Context Protocol SDK and Zod for validation, it offers 17 specialized tools including Long Read discovery, related article finding through tag similarity, content timeline analysis, and intelligent story ranking by editorial prioritization. The implementation features flexible search capabilities with date ranges and section filtering, full article content retrieval with URL parsing, performance optimization through configurable detail levels, and robust error handling with rate limiting awareness, making it valuable for journalism research, content analysis workflows, news monitoring applications, and building AI assistants that need programmatic access to high-quality news content without manual Guardian website navigation.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** monitoring
- **Updated:** 2026-04-30

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/jbenton-guardianda7e)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jbenton/guardian-mcp-server>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "jbenton-guardianda7e"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jbenton-guardianda7e` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jbenton-guardianda7e/pull`

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