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Pollar News

news.pollar/pollar-news

Independent European news from Pollar: search, brief, threads, markets. Read-only, no login.

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Uptime
100.0%
5 direct probes · 30d
Response
1575ms
last probe
Tools
24
callable
Resources
6
readable
Prompts
3
available
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
why this score
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
24 tools, 6 resources, 3 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
33 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
pass Describes itself 10/10
92 characters; more than 30 earns these points.

Tools · 24

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 subjec…

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 brie…

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 re…

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 withHist…

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…

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…

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 symb…

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 chapt…

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…

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…

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 …

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 pl…

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 quote…

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 b…

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_epi…

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.…

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 …

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 …

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.

Resources · 6

Pollar news list

A compact list of Pollar stories with canonical links.

ui://pollar/news-list-v1.html
Pollar explainer

A Pollar explainer: the question, the narration beat by beat, and its map, timeline, figures, charts and quotes.

ui://pollar/explainer-v1.html
Pollar daily brief (en)

Today's curated Pollar brief as Markdown.

pollar://brief/en
Pollar daily brief (pl)

Today's curated Pollar brief as Markdown.

pollar://brief/pl
Pollar daily brief (de)

Today's curated Pollar brief as Markdown.

pollar://brief/de
Pollar daily brief (fr)

Today's curated Pollar brief as Markdown.

pollar://brief/fr

Prompts · 3

explain_story

Why a news story matters: what happened, the background, what comes next, with Pollar sources.

news_around

What is happening in and around a city or region, nearest first.

morning_briefing

Pollar's daily brief, stories developing live, and who is in the news.

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pollar_news": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pollar.news/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}