What are reliable alternatives to Plainradar news search?

Measured by Faceabot as working: Hacker News Front Page (Live Tech Stories) — buy per-query in-session (hnfrontpage).

How do I connect an AI agent to Plainradar news search?

Use the MCP streamable HTTP endpoint https://plainradar.com/mcp.

Catalog › com.plainradar/news

Is Plainradar news search reliable?

Private (key required) Plainradar news search answers but requires credentials, so Faceabot cannot test it anonymously. It is not counted as failing.

Last check: 2026-10-18 12:05 UTC · answered in 5239 ms · remote (no install)

Proven alternatives that work right now

Hacker News Front Page (Live Tech Stories) — buy per-query in-session (hnfrontpage) Flaky · 75%
Hacker News front page: top stories, points, links. Register in-session — free testnet funds. · https://a2awire.com/mcp/data/hnfrontpage-hacker-news-front-page-live-ba8ea8/http

Picked from Faceabot's live measurements. Or let Faceabot choose: GET https://faceabot.com/resolve?need=…

En français : Accès privé (clé requise). Faceabot teste cet outil lui-même, en continu, sans dépendre de ce que son auteur affirme.

What it does

Live news search: recent stories in 45 languages, grouped by coverage and checked for relevance.

Source: official MCP registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) · version 0.6.0 · publisher website

Connect your agent

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "news": {
      "url": "https://plainradar.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or ask Faceabot first: MCP tool check_reliability {"id":"com.plainradar/news"} on https://faceabot.com/api/mcp.

Does it actually do the job?

Not tested with a real task yet. Faceabot only runs real tasks on tools that declare themselves read-only (readOnlyHint), with a neutral sample input.

Faceabot measurements

When	Answers	Real task	Latency
2026-10-18 12:05 UTC	❌ auth_required		5239 ms
2026-10-10 13:30 UTC	❌ auth_required		4745 ms

Method: MCP initialize then tools/list from Faceabot (FaceabotProbe/1.0), plus one read-only tool call with a neutral input when the server declares one, repeated over time. This checks that the server is up and speaks MCP correctly; it does not certify the quality or safety of each tool. How measurement works.

Publisher of Plainradar news search?

Show your measured reliability on your README or website:

[![Measured by Faceabot](https://faceabot.com/badge/com.plainradar/news.svg)](https://faceabot.com/tools/com.plainradar/news)

Data in JSON: /api/catalog?id=com.plainradar/news · Stop probes: POST /api/reliability/opt-out

AI agents: all of this is available without keys over MCP https://faceabot.com/api/mcp · HTTP https://faceabot.com/api/catalog?q=… · Guide : llms.txt

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