Mcp News Media Mention Monitor

com.mambabuiltPublished by mambabuilt.comv1.0.1Updated Nov 7, 2026

News articles about companies or topics from Google News, with publisher URL and only new results.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Searches Google News for mentions of companies, brands, people or topics and returns one row per article with outlet, date and publisher URL.

What you can do
  • Search news mentions: run 1 to 50 search terms (quoted for exact phrases) against Google News, with optional exclude terms, country edition, language, lookback of 1 to 90 days and a per-term article cap.
  • Resolve and deduplicate results: each Google News link is resolved to the publisher's own URL and domain, and an article matched by two terms comes back once.
  • Track only new coverage: with only_new and a state_key, a repeat call returns only articles not returned before.
  • Explain empty runs: a free summary row states whether nothing matched, everything was already returned, or Google News did not answer.
When to use it
Useful for media monitoring and brand or competitor tracking, such as checking what the news said about a set of companies this week, listing outlets covering your own company, or spotting negative headlines since the last check.
Requirements
Runs locally over stdio via npx, so Node.js 18 or newer is needed. Requires an Apify account and an Apify API token supplied as the APIFY_TOKEN environment variable; the tool is listed without a token but a call needs one. Desktop MCP client only.
Before you install
Calls are billed per event to your Apify account (per article row plus a per-run start fee), so repeated or broad searches cost money; max_charge_usd can cap a run. The APIFY_TOKEN is a secret credential. Search terms and watch-list state keys are sent to Apify, which performs the work.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Mcp News Media Mention Monitor in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

News and Media Mention Monitor MCP Server

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[News and Media Mention Monitor MCP server]

An MCP server for the Mamba Labs News and Media Mention Monitor actor on Apify. Give it company names, brands, people, or topics. It reads Google News for each one and returns one row per article: headline, outlet, date, the publisher's own URL and domain, and a headline sentiment label. With only_new on, a repeat call with the same state_key returns only articles it has not returned before.

What's Inside

What it does

Each news.google.com link is resolved to the article's URL on the publisher's site. An article found by two of your search terms comes back once. When a run returns no article, one free summary row says why: nothing matched, everything was returned before, or Google News did not answer. 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:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "mamba-news-media-mention-monitor": {      "command": "npx",      "args": [        "-y",        "@mambalabsdev/mcp-news-media-mention-monitor"      ],      "env": {        "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token"      }    }  }}

Restart the client. The monitor_news_mentions tool appears.

Prerequisites

Example prompts

  • "What did the news say about Gong and Salesloft this week?"
  • "Find news articles about our company from the last 30 days and list the outlets."
  • "Any negative headlines about Acme Robotics since my last check?"

Tool

monitor_news_mentions. One tool. Example arguments:

json
{  "queries": ["\"Acme Robotics\""],  "since_days": "7",  "state_key": "acme-weekly"}

Inputs

Every buyer facing input of the actor, unchanged. Omitted inputs take the actor's own defaults. Numbers and yes or no values are sent as strings.

InputTypeDescription
queriesarray1 to 50 search terms. Required
exclude_termsarrayUp to 20 words to leave out
since_daysstringDays back, 1 to 90. Default 7
countrystringGoogle News country edition. Default US
languagestringLanguage code. Default en
resolve_publisher_urlstringtrue (default) or false
only_newstringtrue (default) or false
state_keystringName for this watch list
max_articlesstringPer search term, 1 to 100. Default 50
max_charge_usdstringOptional cap on the run's cost

Pricing

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

EventFree planBronzeSilverGold
article-row, per article returned$0.0023$0.002185$0.00207$0.001955
apify-actor-start, per run start$0.0015$0.0015$0.0015$0.0015

An article skipped by only_new is not charged. A summary row is free.

Your keys

The actor needs no key and holds none. Proxy traffic adds nothing to your price: Mamba Labs pays the platform costs of the run.

Full actor documentation

apify.com/mambalabs/news-media-mention-monitor

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Source: README.md at commit 0ebf296

Tools

1

monitor_news_mentions

Monitor news mentions

Find news articles about companies, brands, people, or topics from Google News. Give queries (1 to 50 search terms; quotes for an exact phrase) and optionally since_days, country, language, only_new, and state_key. Returns one row per article: title, outlet, outlet_domain, published_at, publisher_url and publisher_domain (the article on the publisher's own site), google_url, sentiment (headline only), is_new, and matched_queries. With only_new true, articles returned by an earlier call with the same state_key are skipped and not charged. When no article is returned, one free summary row says why. A run that does not succeed is returned as an error with its run ID. Read-only; requires an APIFY_TOKEN; Apify charges per article returned plus a run start fee.

Parameterscountryqueriesrequiredlanguageonly_newstate_keysince_daysmax_articlesexclude_termsmax_charge_usdresolve_publisher_url

Version history

2
  1. v1.0.1LatestNov 5, 2026
  2. v1.0.0Oct 29, 2026

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