# Google News & Trends

> Use this tool when you need to monitor news and trends, or analyze current events and search patterns. It provides access to Google News RSS feeds and Google Trends data, allowing you to search for news articles, retrieve top stories, and fetch trending search terms by location, with optional article summarization. Ideal for news monitoring, trend analysis, and content research workflows, it offers a structured interface for searching, retrieving, and summarizing news data and search trends.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/jmanek-google-news-trends  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jmanek-google-news-trends

## Description

Google News Trends MCP server that provides access to Google News RSS feeds and Google Trends data through a Python implementation using the gnews and trendspy libraries. The server offers tools to search for news articles by keyword, location, or topic, retrieve top news stories, and fetch trending search terms by geographic region, with optional article summarization using either LLM sampling or NLP processing via newspaper4k. Built with FastMCP and featuring robust web scraping capabilities including Playwright fallback for difficult-to-scrape sites, it's designed for news monitoring, trend analysis, and content research workflows where users need structured access to current news data and search trends.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.62
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/jmanek-google-news-trends)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jmanek/google-news-trends-mcp>

## 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": "jmanek-google-news-trends"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jmanek-google-news-trends` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/jmanek-google-news-trends/pull`

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