Google News & Trends MCP

mcp-trendpulse

TrendPulse is a Python Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for researching current news and search-interest trends. It combines Google News discovery and article extraction with Google Trends analysis so MCP clients can inspect what is trending, compare keyword momentum, explore related demand, and add current-news context to research workflows.

The project currently ships as a community/self-hosted MCP server and also contains the implementation for a separate hosted TrendPulse by DigestSEO surface for remote MCP clients such as ChatGPT and Codex. The hosted layer uses a smaller, goal-oriented tool surface while the community server keeps the full low-level research toolkit available to developers.

Project status: the local/community server is usable today. The DigestSEO-hosted MCP and public OpenAI plugin are not released yet and should not be treated as available endpoints.

Engineering context: TrendPulse is part of the DigestSEO MCP ecosystem. It complements mcp-gsc for Google Search Console data, mcp-geo for AI visibility, and mcp-web-validator for technical web validation. The broader architecture is documented in the DigestSEO MCP Suite engineering case study.

TrendPulse Demand Brief

Need a fast evidence check before choosing a topic, keyword, market, product angle, or content bet? Tomi offers a human-produced TrendPulse Demand Brief for EUR 49.

For one decision, the brief covers up to five keywords/phrases and two geographic markets using TrendPulse's open-source research capabilities plus current public sources: search-interest direction, relative momentum, related demand, useful news context, and three concrete implications. Target turnaround is within 24 hours after payment is confirmed and the inputs are supplied.

See the exact scope and request format, read a public sample brief, or email info@tomiseregi.si%3A%0AMarkets%20(up%20to%202)%3A%0AContext%20%2F%20deadline%3A) with the subject TrendPulse Demand Brief [TP-RS1].

The paid brief is optional. The Community MCP remains free and unchanged, and the TP-RS1 marker is only an inbound attribution marker; no hidden telemetry is added to the MCP.

What TrendPulse can do

News research

• Search Google News by keyword, location, topic, or publisher domain.
• Retrieve top news stories.
• Resolve Google News links and extract article content.
• Fall back from normal HTTP retrieval to Playwright/Chromium for difficult pages.
• Optionally summarize article text with MCP client sampling, with local NLP as a fallback.

Trend research

• Retrieve current trending terms for a geographic market.
• Pull Google Trends interest-over-time data for one or more keywords.
• Calculate keyword growth over custom windows such as 3M or 1Y.
• Rank live trends by volume or growth.
• Inspect interest by country, region, city, or DMA where supported.
• Explore related queries, related topics, suggestions, and category IDs.
• Compare Google Search, YouTube Search, News Search, Image Search, and Google Shopping trend properties where supported by the underlying provider.

Community and hosted architecture

TrendPulse is being developed with two deliberate surfaces:

The community server remains useful independently. The hosted edition will reuse the same core trend-research concepts while adding the deployment, reliability, authentication, observability, and product integration needed for a managed service.

The implemented hosted tool surface is intentionally higher level than the community API and centers on goals such as:

• discover_trends
• analyze_keyword_trend
• compare_keyword_trends
• discover_related_demand
• get_trend_context
• find_seo_opportunities

These names describe the hosted ChatGPT Apps/MCP interface; they remain separate from the current Community MCP tool names.

Installation

Run from PyPI with uvx (recommended)

TrendPulse is published on PyPI, so the shortest install path is:

uvx mcp-trendpulse

Python 3.11 or newer is required. Python 3.10 reached end-of-life in October 2026 and cannot use Pillow 13, which patches upstream image-decoder vulnerabilities. To run TrendPulse on a machine with Python 3.10 as its default, select a supported interpreter explicitly:

uvx --python 3.11 mcp-trendpulse

See the security policy for the supported-runtime decision. Users on Python 3.10 must upgrade their interpreter; the new package will not install into a Python 3.10-only environment.

To run the current repository head instead of the published package:

uvx --from git+https://github.com/AKzar1el/mcp-trendpulse.git mcp-trendpulse

Install with pip from a checkout

git clone https://github.com/AKzar1el/mcp-trendpulse.git

cd mcp-trendpulse python -m pip install . python -m mcp_trendpulse

Article download safety and optional Chromium

Article downloads use bounded HTTP(S) requests pinned to a validated public IP, while retaining the original hostname for the HTTP Host header and HTTPS certificate verification. System proxies are disabled for this path. The Playwright article fallback is currently disabled because browser URL interception alone cannot guarantee connection-level protection against DNS rebinding; JavaScript-only or challenge-protected articles may therefore return no content. Other Google Trends/News discovery operations are unaffected.

The optional Python playwright package does not install Chromium automatically. For separate browser-supported workflows, install Chromium as follows:

For local use:

playwright install chromium

For Linux environments that also require browser system dependencies:

playwright install --with-deps chromium

Trend-only operations do not inherently require Chromium.

Client configuration

Claude Desktop and Claude Code

Claude Code plugin packaging is included in .claude-plugin/plugin.json with its MCP definition in .mcp.json. The Community MCP remains local/stdin-based and runs through uvx mcp-trendpulse.

Claude Desktop

Using the published PyPI package with uvx:

{

"mcpServers": { "mcp-trendpulse": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-trendpulse"] } } }

VS Code

Install TrendPulse in VS Code

Requires uv/uvx. The install runs the published Community MCP package from PyPI over local stdio.

For workspace-level configuration, put this in .vscode/mcp.json. The same top-level servers shape is used by the VS Code user-profile mcp.json for a global configuration.

{

"servers": { "mcp-trendpulse": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-trendpulse"] } } }

Codex CLI and Codex IDE extension

Codex CLI and the Codex IDE extension share MCP configuration and support local stdio servers. Register the published TrendPulse Community MCP package with:

codex mcp add mcp-trendpulse -- uvx mcp-trendpulse

This makes TrendPulse available to Codex CLI and its IDE extension; it does not automatically install the server in ChatGPT desktop or web. See OpenAI's Codex MCP guidance for the shared Codex configuration model.

ChatGPT custom MCP connections

ChatGPT uses a separate plugin connection workflow; it does not import the local Codex MCP registration above. Where permitted by your account and workspace, use Plugins -> Add custom MCP server with a reachable HTTPS Streamable HTTP endpoint, or an available Secure MCP Tunnel for a private server. See OpenAI's connection instructions for current requirements and access controls.

Local stdio execution through a *desktop-only ChatGPT plugin* is a distinct, partner-allowlisted submission route, not a general Settings -> MCP Servers command-entry option. See OpenAI's desktop-only plugin policy.

TrendPulse's managed HTTPS endpoint and public ChatGPT plugin are not released. The current published Community MCP runs locally via uvx mcp-trendpulse in supported stdio clients; the Codex command alone does not connect it to ChatGPT.

Cursor and portable Agent Plugins

This repository includes an Agent Plugins 1.0 manifest at the repository root. Compatible clients such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot can load the same portable plugin.json + mcp.json package.

Cursor also supports global and project MCP configuration. Add the server to the relevant mcp.json configuration:

{

"mcpServers": { "mcp-trendpulse": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-trendpulse"] } } }

Devin CLI and Devin Desktop

Devin CLI plugins can load Claude plugin packages and Agent Plugins 1.0 packages directly from GitHub. TrendPulse already ships both compatible layouts (.claude-plugin/plugin.json + .mcp.json, and root plugin.json + mcp.json). Install it with:

devin plugins install AKzar1el/mcp-trendpulse

Devin requires a signed-in CLI session to manage plugins. The installed TrendPulse plugin starts the published Community MCP locally over stdio with uvx mcp-trendpulse; it does not use the unreleased hosted TrendPulse endpoint. The same plugin is available in Devin Desktop after installation.

Kiro

Requires uv/uvx. The install runs the published Community MCP package from PyPI; it does not use the unreleased hosted surface.

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LM Studio

Add TrendPulse to LM Studio

Requires uv/uvx. LM Studio runs the published Community MCP package locally over stdio; no hosted TrendPulse service