Search World News Headlines Through NewsAPI and Your Muse

Your muse can search worldwide news headlines and articles through NewsAPI in plain words, so you can follow a topic across many outlets without opening each site yourself.

What it does

NewsAPI gathers headlines and articles from many news outlets and makes them searchable in one place. Through a connector with 3 tools, your muse can read the top headlines of the moment, search the full article archive by words, topic, or source, and list the news sources the service tracks, by country and language. Plain asks include the top headlines on a subject today, every article from the last week mentioning a town, a company, or an event, or which outlets in a country cover a topic. The muse reads the results and sums them up, with the outlet and date for each item, so you can open the original article when one matters. All three tools read only. Nothing is posted, saved, or changed in your news account through this connector.

How to use it

1. Start an AnythingMCP workspace and install the NewsAPI connector.
2. Register for a free Developer key at NewsAPI, and enter it where the connector asks for NEWSAPI_API_KEY.
3. In Muse, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom connector with the MCP server address AnythingMCP gives you. Sign in and approve.
4. Check the setup by asking the muse to list a few news sources it can search.
5. Ask the real questions, such as the top headlines on one topic, or articles about one subject from the last seven days.

What you need

• A Muse account that can add custom connectors
• A NewsAPI account and API key, free Developer plan or a paid plan
• An AnythingMCP account with the NewsAPI connector added

What to watch for

• The free Developer plan allows 100 requests a day, results are capped at 100 per search, and articles arrive 24 hours late. For same-day coverage or heavy use, a paid plan is needed, and the free plan is not for commercial use.
• A headline is not the whole story. Ask the muse for the outlet and date, and open the original article before you repeat a claim or act on it.
• Search words decide what you find. If results look one-sided, ask for a wider search with different words and more outlets, so one framing does not stand for the whole picture.
• This is a custom connector, and Meta does not review custom connectors. You can disconnect it in Settings at any time. The muse prepares, you decide.