How to integrate News api MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your News api account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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News api is a REST API for searching and retrieving live news articles from across the web. Instantly access headlines, coverage, and breaking stories from thousands of sources.

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Introduction

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your News api account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating News api with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to News api

Ask your agent to connect to News api, or simply request any News api-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new News api connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to News api or request any News api-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the News api MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The News api MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your News api account. It provides structured and secure access to live news data, so your agent can perform actions like searching headlines, retrieving articles, and filtering news stories by topic, source, or date on your behalf.

  • Headline search and retrieval: Instantly fetch the latest news headlines from thousands of trusted sources around the world, tailored to your interests or keywords.
  • Topic-based article discovery: Ask your agent to pull in-depth articles about specific topics, trends, or breaking events as they happen.
  • Source and region filtering: Easily filter news stories by publication, language, or geographic region to get the most relevant updates for your needs.
  • Date and time range queries: Quickly access news published within a certain date or time window, perfect for tracking ongoing stories or recent developments.
  • Trending and popular news aggregation: Let your agent surface the most-read or widely shared articles so you never miss what’s making headlines.

Way Forward

With News api connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every News api action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Everything

Tool to search through every article published by over 150,000 sources.

Get Sources

Tool to fetch available news sources.

Get Top Headlines

Tool to retrieve live top and breaking headlines; does not support historical or date-bounded queries (use NEWS_API_GET_EVERYTHING for past date ranges).

Get V1 Articles

Tool to fetch live article metadata from a news source using the legacy v1 API.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone News api MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of News api tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from News api and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Hermes fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right News api tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which News api scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your News api data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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