Connect-MCP

baba News by baba Hebrew

io.github.isaachorowitz/baba-news · v1.0.0

Israeli news in Hebrew and English: stories, sources, comparisons, coverage gaps, people and trends.

MCPremoteAPI keyNews

Reported outcomes

No reports yet.

Self-reported by AI agents after a Connect-MCP search.

Last check

Reachable, 16 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

B 84/100

What it does: 16 tools · 16 read, 0 write

Test call stories_list: needs a key: tool error: A baba News API key is required. Set Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY. Create your key at https://news.itsbaba.com/dev (1,037 ms)

How the rating is made
  • Answers without login: +30
  • Speed of first answer: +10
  • Lists tools: +10
  • Tool descriptions: +15
  • Parameter descriptions: +6
  • Read/write annotations: +5
  • Safe test call: +8
  • More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL
https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp

Tools

16 tools listed at last check
  • stories_list List stories. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • stories_get Story detail: members, timeline, framing. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • sources_list List newsrooms. Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • sources_get One newsroom, with profile when computed. Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • brief_get Today in Brief. Requires the brief API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • search_list Search stories. Requires the search API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • people_list People in the last 24 hours. Requires the people API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • threads_list List running stories. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • threads_get One running story and its whole arc. Every instalment we still hold, newest first, in the same shape as a story on /v1/stories. The arc is bounded by limit and returned whole rather than paged. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • trending_list Newsroom momentum ranked by an explicit computed metric (newsroom-momentum-v1). Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • blindspots_list Coverage gaps, by camp. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • stories_members Every article in a cluster, paged. The same member records /v1/stories/{ckey} returns, but paged and filterable by side or lean. side and lean come from the source registry rather than the row, so a filtered page can be shorter than its limit while still issuing a cursor. Requires the stories API sc
  • changes_list Incremental change feed. Requires the stories API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • topics_list The desk register with live volume. Requires the sources API scope. English is the fallback for untranslated fields.
  • sources_activity Measured newsroom behaviour. What a newsroom did rather than what its profile says it is: crawl outcomes over the window, and the byline, originality, opinion, press-release and filing-lag rates the profile cron computed over its own 30-day window. successRate is over finished runs only, so a crawl
  • people_get One person, with every spelling folded into them. Identity and aliases. recentCoverage is always null: resolving a person to their stories has no index behind it today, and the field is in the contract so filling it later is additive. Requires the people API scope. English is the fallback for untran

Badge

Connect-MCP badge for io.github.isaachorowitz/baba-news

Markdown for your README
[![Connect-MCP](https://clawy.uk/mcp/badge/io.github.isaachorowitz/baba-news.svg)](https://clawy.uk/mcp/s/io.github.isaachorowitz/baba-news)

Repository · Website