Pollar News

news.pollarPublished by pollar.newsOfficial publisherv1.3.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Pollar News is a remote MCP server that lets an assistant search and read European news, explainers, breaking coverage, market quotes and audio or film text.

What you can do
Search news semantically and by keyword, and list current headlines and the category taxonomy. Find recent events near a city, and fetch full coverage of one event, profiles of people and organisations, and trending entities. Read the daily brief, evergreen threads and explainers. Follow breaking-news moments and multi-chapter stories, and read market quotes and price history. Get transcripts of Pollar Sounds episodes and films, and render earlier results as a compact linked list.
When to use it
Use it when an assistant should answer questions about current affairs, summarise recent coverage of a person, organisation or place, or follow breaking news and long-running storylines. Also suited to fetching the daily brief, explainers, market quotes and transcripts of audio or video.
Requirements
Network access to the remote endpoint at No local package, environment variables or headers are declared. Some audio episodes carry no transcript while in their members-only window.
Before you install
The server is read-only and does not write, send or delete data. Queries and place names are sent to Pollar's remote service. Some Pollar Sounds episodes are members-only until public, so transcripts may be missing.

Installation

In SourceWeft

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

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/news.pollar%2Fpollar-news/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pollar-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

24

search_news

Search Pollar News

Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland); the subject or place goes in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Current headlines with no subject or place come from list_top_news.

Parameterslimitqueryrequiredlocale

list_top_news

List top Pollar news

Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country; subject and geographic requests belong to search_news. Can filter by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; valid paths come from list_categories.

Parameterslimitlocalecategory

news_near

Pollar news near a place

Lists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km. Accepts the place name in English, Polish, German or French, with an optional country for ambiguous names. A whole country, a region or a topic is a job for search_news.

ParameterslimitplacerequiredlocalecountryradiusKm

get_event

Get a Pollar news event

Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, links to the same story in other languages, and a canonical pollar.news url. When explainer is set, get_explainer returns a narrated walk-through of the story; when film is set, get_film returns the film's transcript.

Parametersslugrequiredlocale

get_daily_brief

Get Pollar daily brief

Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Intended only for explicit requests for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest; questions about a subject, person, place, or country belong to search_news. Locale changes the brief's language, not its editorial scope.

Parameterslocale

list_threads

List Pollar story threads

Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Suited to discovering long-running topics; get_thread takes a returned id for the detail.

Parameterslocale

get_thread

Get a Pollar thread

Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with limit). With withHistory, it also includes the last ten changes to the thesis. Returns the thread detail with a canonical url.

ParametersslugrequiredlimitlocalewithHistory

get_entity

Get a Pollar person or organisation

Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.

ParametersslugrequiredtyperequiredlocalewithTimeline

get_markets

Get market data

Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments it returns the quote catalogue; with an exact catalogue symbol, that quote's detail, and with a range, its price history.

Parametersrangesymbol

list_live_moments

List Pollar breaking-news moments

Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours. A moment that belongs to a multi-chapter story carries its storyId and chapterIndex, and chapters of one story come in chapter order. get_live_moment takes a returned id for the current snapshot.

Parameterslocale

list_live_stories

List Pollar breaking-news stories (with chapters)

Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a story has unfolded (for example, a strike with three chapters over 48 hours) rather than single moments. get_live_moment takes a returned story id for the current snapshot; it accepts story ids and moment ids.

Parameterslocale

get_live_moment

Get a breaking-news moment snapshot

Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts a moment id or a story id; a story id resolves to that story's latest chapter. The result is a point-in-time read, not a stream.

Parametersidrequiredlocale

get_live_story

Get a breaking-news story snapshot (chapters umbrella)

Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. Returns the whole multi-chapter arc; a single chapter comes from get_live_moment.

Parametersidrequiredlocale

list_categories

List Pollar categories

Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.

Takes no parameters.

fetch

Fetch a Pollar News article

Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.

Parametersidrequired

list_explainers

List Pollar explainers

Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question behind it, with maps, timelines, key figures, charts and quotes. get_explainer takes a returned eventSlug for the content.

Parameterslimitlocale

get_explainer

Get a Pollar explainer

Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns the question it answers, the narration beat by beat, and each beat's visual data: a map with places and coordinates, a dated timeline (entries marked next are what comes next), a key figure with its source, a bar chart, or a quote. Suited to questions about why a story matters. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

Parametersslugrequiredlocale

list_sounds

List Pollar Sounds episodes

Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access 'early' are for Pollar members until publicAt. get_sound_episode takes a returned slug for the transcript and sources.

Parameterslocale

get_sound_episode

Get a Pollar Sounds episode

Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with each speaker named. Episodes still in the members-only window come without a transcript. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

ParametersslugrequiredlocalewithTranscript

list_films

List Pollar films

Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its event when one is attached. get_film takes a returned slug for the transcript.

Parameterslimitlocale

get_film

Get a Pollar film

Fetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken from the reviewed captions. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.

Parametersslugrequiredlocale

render_news_list

Show a Pollar news list

Shows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list. Titles and canonical URLs are displayed exactly as given.

Parametersitemsrequiredheading

Version history

2
  1. v1.3.0LatestOct 5, 2026
  2. v1.0.0Sep 16, 2026

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