NewsCatcher MCP
Officialby Newscatcher
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOG_LEVEL | No | JSON log level (Stackdriver shape). | INFO |
| POSTHOG_APP | No | Sent as app on every PostHog event, so one project can hold several apps. | newscatcher-mcp |
| POSTHOG_HOST | No | PostHog ingestion host (region). | us.i.posthog.com |
| POSTHOG_PORT | No | PostHog ingestion port. | 443 |
| POSTHOG_ENABLED | No | Set to false to turn PostHog off completely, even when a key is present. | true |
| NEWSCATCHER_API_KEY | Yes | Your NewsCatcher Platform API key. Used for local stdio mode only; never used for HTTP requests (HTTP clients pass their own key via x-api-key header, Authorization: Bearer, or ?apiKey= when allowed). Do not set it on Vercel. | |
| POSTHOG_ENVIRONMENT | No | Sent as environment on every PostHog event. | VERCEL_TARGET_ENV or local |
| NEWSCATCHER_TOOLSETS | No | Default toolsets to expose when the URL has no ?tools= parameter. | all |
| POSTHOG_IDENTITY_SALT | No | Secret for pseudonymous caller ids (HMAC of the key). Without it callers stay anonymous. | |
| NEWSCATCHER_TIMEOUT_MS | No | Timeout per upstream request. | 90000 |
| NEWSCATCHER_INTEGRATION | No | Default User-Agent tag. | |
| POSTHOG_PROJECT_API_KEY | No | Enables PostHog MCP analytics (write-only phc_... key). | |
| NEWSCATCHER_NEWS_API_URL | No | News API host only (no https:// and no path). | api.newscatcherapi.com |
| NEWSCATCHER_AGENT_API_URL | No | Agent API host only (no https:// and no path). | api.newscatcherapi.com |
| NEWSCATCHER_NEWS_API_PORT | No | News API port. | 443 |
| NEWSCATCHER_AGENT_API_PORT | No | Agent API port. | 443 |
| NEWSCATCHER_ALLOW_KEY_IN_URL | No | Set to 1 to accept ?apiKey= on the MCP URL (for clients that cannot send headers). Off by default because keys in URLs end up in access logs. | false |
| NEWSCATCHER_MAX_CALL_SECONDS | No | Longest a single tool call works (waiting for a run, paging, counting) before answering with what it has. Keep below Vercel maxDuration (300). | 240 |
| NEWSCATCHER_NEWS_API_ENDPOINT | No | News API base path. | news-api |
| NEWSCATCHER_AGENT_API_ENDPOINT | No | Agent API base path. | agent |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
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Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
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No tools | |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
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No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
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No resources | |
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