News Site Article Archive MCP Server

An MCP server for the Mamba Labs News Site Article Archive actor on Apify. Full article text and dates from named news sites across a past date range.

What's Inside

• What it does

• Quick start

• Prerequisites

• Example prompts

• Tool

• Inputs

• Pricing

• Full actor documentation

• License

Related MCP server: article-scraper-mcp

What it does

Give news sites and a date range. The actor finds article addresses in the site sitemaps and the Internet Archive capture index, reads each page over plain HTTP, and returns one row per article with full text, published date, title, author, and section. A page gone from the site can be read from an Internet Archive copy. Paywalled and refused pages return a free row with no text.

All of the work runs on Apify. This package is a thin client that starts the actor run, waits for it, and hands back the dataset rows.

Quick start

You need Node.js 18 or newer and an Apify account with an API token.

Add this to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor, or any MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mamba-news-site-article-archive": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mambalabsdev/mcp-news-site-article-archive"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. The collect_news_site_articles tool appears.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18 or newer.

• An Apify API token from console.apify.com/account/integrations, set as APIFY_TOKEN. The server lists its tool without a token; a call needs one.

Example prompts

• "Get every article this news site published in January 2016."

• "Collect 10 years of reports from these three news sites."

• "Pull the full text of this site's politics stories from last year."

Tool

collect_news_site_articles. One tool. Example arguments:

{
  "sites": [
    "techcrunch.com"
  ],
  "date_from": "2016-01-01",
  "date_to": "2016-01-31",
  "max_articles_per_site": 5
}

Inputs

Every buyer facing input of the actor. Omitted inputs take the actor's own defaults.

Pricing

Pay per event on Apify, billed to your Apify account. Prices in USD.

Refused, paywalled, gone, and out of range pages, summary rows, and refused input are free. Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of the run, Apify proxy traffic included. Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of the run, Apify proxy traffic included.

Full actor documentation

apify.com/mambalabs/news-site-article-archive

License

MIT. See LICENSE.