news-monitor-mcp (malkreide/news-monitor-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 69 out of 100, grade C. It declares 15 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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news-monitor-mcp

MCP server for global news monitoring, media analysis and sentiment tracking via WorldNewsAPI — full-text search across 150+ countries, German/English sentiment analysis, top headlines, GL briefings, newspaper front pages and geo-search. API key required.

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// key findings
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15 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour
12 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec
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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
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Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: MCP_BEARER_TOKEN, WORLD_NEWS_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configMCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS
configMCP_HOST127.0.0.1 HTTP bind host. Use 0.0.0.0 only inside a container.
configMCP_PORT8000 Port for HTTP transport
🔐 secretMCP_BEARER_TOKENRequired in --http mode. Bearer token clients must present in Authorization: Bearer <token>. Generate via python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))".
configMCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINSOptional CSV allowlist for the Origin header (DNS-rebinding protection). Example: https://claude.ai.
🔐 secretWORLD_NEWS_API_KEYyour-key uvx news-monitor-mcp
configMCP_CACHE_MAX_PER_TYPE1000 Maximum cache entries per tool type. When exceeded, the least-recently-used entry of that type is evicted. Set to 0 to disable the cap (unbounded growth — only safe for short-lived processes).
configMCP_CACHE_SWEEP_SECONDS300 Interval for the background task that removes TTL-expired entries from the cache. Set to 0 to disable the sweep (expired entries are still pruned lazily on news_cache_stats).
configLOG_LEVELINFO Log level: DEBUG / INFO / WARNING / ERROR. Logs are emitted as JSON to stderr with automatic redaction of api-key= query params and Authorization: Bearer headers.
configMCP_ALERT_RETENTION_DAYS90 Alerts older than this many days are deleted on server start (Privacy default per [docs/privacy-dsg.md](docs/privacy-dsg.md)). Set to 0 to disable retention.
configNEWS_MONITOR_ALERTS_FILE(Back-compat) explicit path to the alerts file. Same symlink check applies. Prefer NEWS_MONITOR_ALERTS_DIR.
configNEWS_MONITOR_ALERTS_DIRNEWS_MONITOR_ALERTS_FILE – (Back-compat) explicit path to the alerts file. Same symlink check applies. Prefer .
// quality suggestions

Tool inputs are validated

13/15 tool handlers declare input schemas (87%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

Tool handlers catch errors

10/15 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (67%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

Tests exist

No test files found

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