A side-by-side look at the Country News and Syracuse Company News MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Country News for aggregators work as a local process; choose Syracuse Company News for aggregators over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
country_news.MCP_SERVER_API_TOKEN.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Aggregators | Aggregators |
| Quality signal | 52/100 · Good | 36/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | MCP_SERVER_API_TOKEN |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 1 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Country News | View Syracuse Company News |
country_newsTop headlines for a country (name or ISO-2 code), optionally narrowed to a topic section (WORLD, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, …) or a keyword query with a trailing day window.No tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"country-news": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-country-news"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"syracuse-company-news": {
"url": "https://syracuse.1145.am/mcp"
}
}
}