Is the AskNews MCP server free?

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

How do I connect AskNews to Claude or Cursor?

Connect AskNews in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

What can my agent do in AskNews?

It can call 8 tools, including Search News, Generate News Knowledge Graph, Get Article by ID, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Is it safe to let an agent call AskNews?

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.

AskNews MCP server

AskNews piece allows you to search and retrieve enriched real-time and historical news articles using AskNews API.

AskNews is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 760+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Start building See the AskNews integration

Tools: 8
Works with: Any MCP client
Auth: API key
License: MIT, open source
Updated: September 2026

About the AskNews MCP server

Connect AskNews once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches AskNews and 760+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

AskNews tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these AskNews actions by asking in plain language.

Search News
Search for enriched real-time news articles from the past 48 hours or historical archive
8 fields
Generate News Knowledge Graph
Build a custom mega-news-knowledge graph with fully disambiguated entities and relationships
10 fields
Get Article by ID
Retrieve a single article or multiple articles by their UUID(s)
1 field
Chat Completion
Get chat completions from a news-infused AI assistant powered by OpenAI API
10 fields
Search Stories (Narrative Clusters)
Filter and search for top news narratives and story clusters
5 fields
Create a Newsletter
Create an automated newsletter powered by news and AI
13 fields
Update a Newsletter
Update an existing automated newsletter
14 fields
Custom API Call
Make a custom API call to a specific endpoint
10 fields

Triggers

AskNews events your agent can watch

These start a run the moment something happens in AskNews, so work gets picked up on its own.

Alert for Query
Trigger when a new alert is created for a specific news query
6 fields

Give your assistant AskNews

Connect AskNews once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 760+ other apps. Free to start.

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AskNews MCP, answered.

No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes AskNews alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.