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Search News

An MCP tool from the X (Twitter) API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Search News Retrieves a list of News stories matching the specified search query. [GET /2/news/search]

Name on the gateway: x_api__search_news · read-only.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
query requiredstringquery parameter
max_resultsintegermax_results parameter
max_age_hoursintegermax_age_hours parameter
news.fieldsarrayA comma separated list of News fields to display.

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "x_api__search_news",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "…"
  }
}

Or connect the X (Twitter) API server directly, which lists 258 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-x-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/x-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the search news tool with query set to ….

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