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Pollar News

news.pollar/pollar-news · v1.3.0

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Independent European news from Pollar: search, explainers, brief, threads, audio, films. Read-only.

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claude mcp add --transport http pollar-news https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pollar-news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools as reported by the server

• search_news
  Searches Pollar's news archive with semantic and keyword matching. Suited to any question about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country (for example, interesting news in Poland); the subject or place goes in query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. Current headlines
• list_top_news
  Lists Pollar's current leading news events, ranked by freshness and editorial momentum. Suited to broad requests for current headlines with no named subject, place, or country; subject and geographic requests belong to search_news. Can filter by a taxonomy dot-path such as 'world.politics'; valid pa
• news_near
  Lists recent Pollar events located in or around a named city or town, nearest first, with the distance in km. Accepts the place name in English, Polish, German or French, with an optional country for ambiguous names. A whole country, a region or a topic is a job for search_news.
• get_event
  Fetches the full Pollar coverage of a single event by its slug (get slugs from search_news or list_top_news). Returns title, lead, full summary, source citations, mentioned people, locations, charts, links to the same story in other languages, and a canonical pollar.news url. When explainer is set,
• get_daily_brief
  Fetches today's fixed, curated Pollar daily brief with a greeting, headline, executive summary, themed sections, related events, and charts. Intended only for explicit requests for Pollar's daily brief or curated digest; questions about a subject, person, place, or country belong to search_news. Loc
• list_threads
  Lists Pollar's active evergreen threads: ongoing storylines tracked over time and grouped by section, with the latest change magnitude. Suited to discovering long-running topics; get_thread takes a returned id for the detail.
• get_thread
  Fetches a single Pollar thread by slug (from list_threads): its thesis, current state-of-play, and the most recent chronicle entries with citations (15 by default, up to 100 with limit). With withHistory, it also includes the last ten changes to the thesis. Returns the thread detail with a canonical
• get_entity
  Fetches Pollar's profile for a person or organisation by slug (slugs come from list_trending_entities). With withTimeline, it also lists recent events that mention the subject. Returns the profile and a canonical Pollar URL.
• list_trending_entities
  Lists the people, organisations or places most present in Pollar's recent coverage, ranked by recent mentions. Suited to questions like who is in the news this week; get_entity takes a returned person or organization slug for the profile and timeline.
• get_markets
  Returns market data tracked by Pollar, including European and global indices, currencies, crypto, commodities, and bonds. Without arguments it returns the quote catalogue; with an exact catalogue symbol, that quote's detail, and with a range, its price history.
• list_live_moments
  Lists Pollar's live and recently ended breaking-news moments: what is breaking now and what ended within the past 24 hours. A moment that belongs to a multi-chapter story carries its storyId and chapterIndex, and chapters of one story come in chapter order. get_live_moment takes a returned id for th
• list_live_stories
  Lists Pollar's active and developing breaking-news stories, each with an umbrella title and its chapters in order. Suited to showing how a story has unfolded (for example, a strike with three chapters over 48 hours) rather than single moments. get_live_moment takes a returned story id for the curren
• get_live_moment
  Fetches the current snapshot of a breaking-news moment by id, including ordered updates and a source summary. Accepts a moment id or a story id; a story id resolves to that story's latest chapter. The result is a point-in-time read, not a stream.
• get_live_story
  Fetches the current snapshot of a story by id, including its title, status (active, developing, concluded or dormant) and ordered chapters. Returns the whole multi-chapter arc; a single chapter comes from get_live_moment.
• list_categories
  Returns Pollar's category taxonomy with mention counts: the valid dot-paths for filtering list_top_news. Takes no arguments.
• search
  Searches Pollar's published news and returns a ranked list of matching articles as {id, title, url}. Suited to queries about a subject, person, organisation, place, or country, with that subject or place as the query. Locale controls response language, not geographic scope. fetch takes a returned id
• fetch
  Fetches the full text of one Pollar article by the id returned from the search tool. Returns {id, title, text, url, metadata} with the article's summary and source citations.
• list_explainers
  Lists Pollar's latest explainers, newest first. An explainer is a short narrated walk-through of one news event that answers the question behind it, with maps, timelines, key figures, charts and quotes. get_explainer takes a returned eventSlug for the content.
• get_explainer
  Fetches the explainer for one news event by its event slug (from list_explainers, or get_event when its explainer field is set). Returns the question it answers, the narration beat by beat, and each beat's visual data: a map with places and coordinates, a dated timeline (entries marked next are what
• list_sounds
  Lists episodes of Pollar Sounds, Pollar's narrative audio series that takes one story back to its roots, newest first. Episodes with access 'early' are for Pollar members until publicAt. get_sound_episode takes a returned slug for the transcript and sources.
• get_sound_episode
  Fetches one Pollar Sounds episode by slug (from list_sounds): description, the people and outlets whose recordings are heard, and the full transcript in the requested language with each speaker named. Episodes still in the members-only window come without a transcript. Returns a canonical pollar.new
• list_films
  Lists Pollar films, newest first: short videos in which a Pollar journalist answers one question about a news story. Each film links its event when one is attached. get_film takes a returned slug for the transcript.
• get_film
  Fetches one Pollar film by slug (from list_films, or the film field of get_event) with its full transcript in the requested language, taken from the reviewed captions. Returns a canonical pollar.news url.
• render_news_list
  Shows up to 10 stories from earlier search_news, list_top_news or search results as a compact linked list. Titles and canonical URLs are displayed exactly as given.

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