World News API for AI agents
World News API aggregates news from thousands of sources across many languages and countries, used by teams building news feeds, monitoring, or research 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 World News API.
Search news by topic
Find recent articles matching a keyword or topic, a read-only search.
Get top news for a location
Pull the top headlines for a country or region.
Extract a full article
Pull the full text of a specific news article by its URL.
8 World News API actions, graded by risk.
Every World News API action is tagged read, write or destructive, so one policy covers the whole app and new actions inherit the right default.
read
7Look things up. Allowed by default.
- world_news_api.search_newsSearch News
- world_news_api.get_top_newsGet Top News
- world_news_api.get_news_by_idsGet News by IDs
- world_news_api.get_geo_coordinatesGet Geo Coordinates
- world_news_api.search_news_sourcesSearch News Sources
- world_news_api.extract_newsExtract News Article
- world_news_api.extract_news_linksExtract News Links
write
1Create and change things. Allow, or ask the user first.
- world_news_api.generate_rss_feedGenerate RSS Feed
destructive
0Delete, cancel or archive. Ask first, or deny outright.
- No destructive actions.
World News API in three steps.
- 01Your users connect World News APIThey add their World News API api key on Arc0 Connect, under your brand. It goes straight into the vault.
- 02You set the rulesReads run, and writes like “generate RSS Feed” can wait for the user to approve.
- 03Any agent can actYour agent calls World News API through the Arc0 SDK or MCP, and so can Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. Every call lands on the audit log.
await arc0.policies.set('world_news_api', { read: 'allow', write: 'ask', // generate_rss_feed destructive: 'deny', }) # Claude Code: the same connection, one URL $ claude mcp add --transport http arc0 \ https://mcp.arc0.ai/u/u_8f2
How World News API connects.
Users add their World News API 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 World News API 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 World News API from any agent.
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World News API and Arc0, answered.
Can I use World News API with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes. Connect World News API 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 World News API actions you allow.
How do users connect World News API?
Users add their World News API 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 World News API actions can my agent take?
8 in total: 7 read, 1 write and 0 destructive, such as “generate RSS Feed”. Your policies decide which of them each agent may call.
Can I make my agent read-only in World News API?
Yes. Allow read actions and deny writes in the World News API policy. Your agent can still look things up, and any write it attempts is blocked and logged.
Can my own backend call World News API too?
Yes. The same World News API connection is available over REST and through the Arc0 proxy, so your product and your agent share one connection per user.
Plug World News API into your agent.
Your users connect World News API once, under your brand. Your agent gets 8 actions behind your policies, with every call on the record.
Free to build · MCP + REST · Audit log on every plan