NewsAPI for AI agents
NewsAPI is a search API that retrieves live news articles and headlines from sources across the web for research and content tools. Connect it once through Arc0, and your agent, or Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, can use it through one MCP endpoint, limited to what each user approved.
What agents do in NewsAPI.
Search for news on a topic
Search recent articles about a topic to compile a briefing, a read-only lookup.
Pull top headlines
Fetch top headlines for a category or country to include in a daily digest.
Check a source's recent coverage
List sources and their recent articles to compare how outlets covered a story.
4 NewsAPI actions, graded by risk.
Every NewsAPI action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.
read
4Look things up. Allowed by default.
- newsapi.get_sourcesGet Sources
- newsapi.get_everythingGet Everything
- newsapi.get_v1_articlesGet V1 Articles
- newsapi.get_top_headlinesGet Top Headlines
write
0Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.
- No write actions.
destructive
0Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.
- No destructive actions.
NewsAPI in three steps.
- 01Your users connect NewsAPIThey add their NewsAPI api key on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
- 02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “updates” can wait for the user to approve.
- 03Any agent can actYour agent calls NewsAPI through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
await arc0.policies.set('newsapi', { read: 'allow', write: 'ask', destructive: 'deny', }) # Claude Code: the same connection, one URL $ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \ https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
How NewsAPI connects.
Users add their NewsAPI api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.
The same NewsAPI connection serves your agent over MCP and your own backend over REST and the proxy, so a user connects once. How Arc0 handles credentials →
- AUTH
- API key
- CREDENTIALS
- Per-tenant encrypted vault
- MODEL SEES
- Results only, never credentials
- AUDIT LOG
- Every call, on every plan
Use NewsAPI from any agent.
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NewsAPI and Arc0, answered.
Can I use NewsAPI with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes. Connect NewsAPI to Arc0 once, then add your Arc0 MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any other remote-MCP client. Each assistant only gets the NewsAPI actions you allow.
How do users connect NewsAPI?
Users add their NewsAPI api key on Arc0 Connect. It is encrypted in the vault, never shown to the model, and each user can rotate or revoke it at any time.
Which NewsAPI actions can my agent take?
4 in total: 4 read, 0 write and 0 destructive. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.
Can I make my agent read-only in NewsAPI?
Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the NewsAPI policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.
Can my own backend call NewsAPI too?
Yes. The same NewsAPI connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.
Plug NewsAPI into your agent.
Your users connect NewsAPI once, under your brand. Your agent gets 4 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.
Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan