NYTimes Article Search MCP Server – a TypeScript-based MCP server that exposes a tool to search New York Times articles from the last 30 days.
https://github.com/angheljf/nytSkip the browser tabs and search New York Times articles directly from your AI assistant. This MCP server puts NYT's article search at your fingertips, returning the last 30 days of content with titles, abstracts, URLs, publication dates, and authors.
You're deep in a coding session when you need recent news context for a project, market research for a client proposal, or background on a trending topic affecting your industry. Instead of breaking your flow to open a browser, navigate to NYT, and manually search, you get instant access to quality journalism without leaving your development environment.
Perfect for developers building news aggregation tools, content management systems, or research applications who need reliable, structured news data without the friction of direct API integration.
Zero Context Switching: Search and retrieve articles without opening browsers or switching applications. Your AI assistant handles the heavy lifting while you stay in your workflow.
Structured Data Ready: Get clean, structured article data (title, abstract, URL, date, author) that's immediately usable in your projects—no parsing HTML or dealing with inconsistent formatting.
Recent Content Focus: Searches the last 30 days of articles, giving you access to timely, relevant content when current events matter for your work.
Simple Integration: One tool, one parameter. Search by keyword and get results instantly—no complex API authentication flows or pagination logic to handle.
Market Research Automation: Building a startup? Search for recent coverage of your industry, competitors, or emerging trends. Get article summaries and links for deeper research without manual browsing.
Content Management Systems: Developing news or blog platforms? Integrate recent NYT articles as reference content, trending topic suggestions, or supplementary reading recommendations.
Data Analysis Projects: Working on sentiment analysis, trend tracking, or news classification? Pull structured article data for your datasets without scraping or complex API calls.
Client Reporting: Need background context for client presentations? Quickly gather recent articles about their industry, competitors, or market conditions with clean, citable sources.
Install via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install nyt --client claude
Add your NYT API key to your environment:
NYTIMES_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
Start searching:
The server returns structured data with everything you need: headlines, abstracts, direct links, publication dates, and author information. No additional parsing or formatting required.
This MCP server fits seamlessly into your existing Claude Desktop setup. Once configured, the search functionality becomes available through natural language requests to your AI assistant—no new interfaces to learn or APIs to study.
Whether you're researching for a project, gathering context for development work, or need current events background for client presentations, you get professional journalism without the workflow interruption.
Get quality news data in your development workflow. Because breaking your coding flow to hunt down articles shouldn't be part of the process.