CryptoPanic MCP Server: Real-Time Crypto News for Your AI Workflows

Stop building yet another crypto news scraper. This MCP server drops structured cryptocurrency news directly into your AI agent's context, powered by CryptoPanic's curated feed.

The News Integration Problem You've Solved Before

You're building a crypto trading bot, portfolio assistant, or market analysis tool. You need current news data, but you don't want to:

• Write scrapers for dozens of crypto news sites
• Deal with rate limits, bot detection, and changing HTML structures
• Build news categorization and deduplication logic
• Maintain yet another data pipeline

The CryptoPanic MCP server handles all of this. One API call gets you clean, structured news data that your AI can immediately process.

What You Get

Structured News Data: Each story comes with title, URL, publication time, community votes, relevant crypto symbols, and source publication. No HTML parsing, no cleanup needed.

Curated Content: CryptoPanic's editorial team filters signal from noise, so your AI gets relevant stories instead of every crypto blog post ever written.

Simple Integration: One tool, two parameters. Your AI can request specific content types (news vs. media) and control pagination.

# Your AI can call this directly
get_crypto_news(kind="news", num_pages=2)

Real-World Applications

Trading Signal Generation: Feed breaking news into your trading algorithms. "Coinbase announces staking rewards for Ethereum" becomes actionable market data.

Portfolio Context: Your portfolio assistant can explain why your holdings moved. "Your SOL position is up 12% following news of a major DEX launch."

Market Research: Generate reports by combining news sentiment with price action. Track regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions automatically.

Alert Systems: Build intelligent notifications that consider both price movements and relevant news events, not just technical indicators.

Setup Takes 5 Minutes

1. Get a free CryptoPanic API key
2. Set two environment variables
3. Add the server config to your MCP setup
4. Your AI immediately has access to crypto news

"mcpServers": {
  "cryptopanic-mcp-server": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": ["--directory", "/path/to/cryptopanic-mcp-server", "run", "main.py"],
    "env": {
      "CRYPTOPANIC_API_PLAN": "your_plan",
      "CRYPTOPANIC_API_KEY": "your_key"
    }
  }
}

Why This Beats Building Your Own

Time Savings: Skip weeks of development. No scraper maintenance, no API management, no data normalization.

Reliability: CryptoPanic handles uptime, rate limiting, and source management. You focus on what your AI does with the data.

Data Quality: Human-curated news feed means less noise, more signal. Your AI processes relevant stories, not spam.

Community Metrics: Get vote counts and engagement data to weight story importance automatically.

The server has gained solid traction (41 stars, 17 forks) because it solves a real problem: getting quality crypto news data into AI workflows without the infrastructure headache.

Ready to stop scraping and start building? Clone the repo and have crypto news flowing to your AI in minutes.