Perigon MCP Server

Perigon MCP Server is an MCP server that connects AI assistants to the Perigon news API for real-time news search and media monitoring. Media analysts, researchers, journalists, and intelligence teams use it to retrieve structured information from thousands of global publications without manual web scraping. The server enables LLMs to query live news stories, inspect article metrics, track coverage across specific journalists, and look up entities such as companies, politicians, and topics. It also provides tools to calculate aggregated sentiment metrics, track publication volume over time, and evaluate coverage spikes against historical baselines. Furthermore, the integration allows users to review automated news monitors, read event summaries, and receive topic newsletters directly inside MCP client environments like Claude and Cursor. Through curated tool profiles, clients can restrict server capabilities to specific tasks like research, monitoring, or platform management, keeping context windows focused and reducing unnecessary token usage during active investigative sessions.

Category: Communication & Messaging

Tags: aggregation, journalism, media, news, real-time

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How to install and configure Perigon MCP Server

1. Obtain a valid Perigon API key from the Perigon dashboard. 2. Open your client's MCP configuration file (such as Cursor or Claude Desktop settings). 3. Register the remote server using the Streamable HTTP transport by adding the configuration below: json { "mcpServers": { "perigon_news_api": { "url": "https://mcp.perigon.io/v1/mcp", "type": "http", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_PERIGON_API_KEY" } } } } 4. If using Claude Code CLI, run: bash claude mcp add --transport http perigon_news_api https://mcp.perigon.io/v1/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PERIGON_API_KEY" 5. For clients lacking native HTTP transport support, use npx -y mcp-remote@latest https://mcp.perigon.io/v1/mcp as outlined in the project repository.

What you can do with Perigon MCP Server

• Tracking real-time media coverage and trending business or political headlines within specific regions, industries, or custom date ranges. - Computing aggregate sentiment trends and publication volume over time for specific entities or topics using server-side stats tools. - Profiling journalists and news sources to find top reporters covering beats like climate policy, finance, or artificial intelligence. - Monitoring corporate events, competitor mentions, and executive departures via automated Perigon monitors and event summaries.

Key facts

• https://github.com/goperigon/perigon-mcp-server
• Communication & Messaging, Web Search & Research
• aggregation, journalism, media, news, real-time

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What is Perigon MCP Server?

Perigon MCP Server is an official integration developed by the Perigon engineering team that provides MCP-compatible AI assistants with direct access to the Perigon news API. It lets language models query live articles, retrieve aggregated sentiment and publication statistics, and manage automated media monitoring feeds.

How do I install Perigon MCP Server?

Perigon MCP Server is hosted remotely at https://mcp.perigon.io/v1/mcp. You do not need to install local code packages. Simply configure your MCP client to connect via Streamable HTTP with an Authorization header containing your Perigon API key, or use mcp-remote for clients without native HTTP support.

What tools are available in Perigon MCP Server?

The server includes tools for searching articles and stories, retrieving journalist and source details, computing sentiment and volume trends, and inspecting coverage spikes for people and companies. It also provides tools for checking organization watchlists, custom source groups, and managing Perigon monitors.

How can I limit the tools exposed to my MCP client?

You can append a tools query parameter to the server URL, such as ?tools=search_news_articles,search_news_stories. You can also specify predefined tool profiles like research, monitoring, platform, or minimal to load curated subsets and keep LLM context sizes small.

Which MCP clients work with Perigon MCP Server?

The server works with any client supporting the Model Context Protocol, including Claude Code CLI, Cursor, and other editors or agents. Clients supporting Streamable HTTP connect natively, while other clients can connect using the mcp-remote proxy.