generated: '2026-08-13'
method: probed
status: published-gated
source: https://developer.newswhip.com/mcp
checked: '2026-08-13'
summary: NewsWhip serves a live, reachable MCP endpoint from its own developer host at https://developer.newswhip.com/mcp.
  A GET returns "This URL can only be accessed with a MCP client" (HTTP 200) and a JSON-RPC POST returns
  a well-formed JSON-RPC error envelope — both `initialize` and `tools/list` answer {"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32001,"message":"Authorization
  required"},"id":null} with HTTP 401. The endpoint is therefore real and provider-hosted, but its tool
  list is auth-gated and could not be enumerated anonymously. No WWW-Authenticate header is returned and
  no /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource or /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server is served (all 404),
  so the authorization flow is not discoverable either — a client cannot bootstrap auth from the endpoint
  alone.
ownership_note: developer.newswhip.com is NewsWhip's own developer hub, hosted on ReadMe (response headers
  carry readme-subdomain "newswhip-api" and readme-repo "newswhip-api-29dcc4d8f685"). The /mcp surface
  is the platform-provided MCP server for that hub, served on a host NewsWhip controls and populated with
  NewsWhip's own documentation and API reference. It is recorded as NewsWhip's agent surface for that
  reason, with the platform origin stated plainly rather than presented as a bespoke NewsWhip build.
deployment:
  mode: none
  verified: derived
  tools: 10
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census
server:
  name: newswhip-developer-hub
  transport: streamable-http
  platform: ReadMe
  tools_enumerated: false
  tools_note: tools/list is gated. NewsWhip publishes no llms.txt tool list either — its /llms.txt is
    a documentation index, not a tool manifest — so no real tool names, descriptions or inputSchemas are
    available without authenticated introspection. Nothing below is presented as this server's actual
    tool list.
probes:
- url: https://developer.newswhip.com/mcp
  method: GET
  status: 200
  body: This URL can only be accessed with a MCP client.
- url: https://developer.newswhip.com/mcp
  method: POST
  rpc: initialize
  status: 401
  body: '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32001,"message":"Authorization required"},"id":null}'
- url: https://developer.newswhip.com/mcp
  method: POST
  rpc: tools/list
  status: 401
  body: '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","error":{"code":-32001,"message":"Authorization required"},"id":null}'
- url: https://developer.newswhip.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
  status: 404
- url: https://developer.newswhip.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  status: 404
- url: https://api.newswhip.com/mcp
  status: 404
- url: https://mcp.newswhip.com/mcp
  status: 0
  note: host does not resolve to a NewsWhip service
candidate_tools:
  method: derived
  source: openapi/
  note: Candidate tool shapes derived from the captured OpenAPI operations, for agent authors who want
    to wrap the REST API themselves. These are NOT the tools the hosted MCP server exposes.
  tools:
  - name: search
    description: GET /search — keyword search over the last 24 hours (Quick Start API)
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-search-api-openapi.yml#search
  - name: region
    description: GET /region/{Region}/{Category}/{Time_Period} — ranked content by region and category
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-region-api-openapi.yml#region
  - name: publisher
    description: GET /publisher/{Publisher}/{Time_Period} — ranked content for one publisher
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-publisher-api-openapi.yml#publisher
  - name: local
    description: GET /local/{City}/All/{Time_Period} — hyper-local content for one city
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-local-api-openapi.yml#local
  - name: articles
    description: POST /articles — filtered historical search for web and YouTube content
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-articles-api-openapi.yml#articles
  - name: articlesbyhrefs
    description: POST /articlesByHrefs — engagement lookup for a supplied list of URLs
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-articlesbyhrefs-api-openapi.yml#articlesbyhrefs
  - name: fbposts
    description: POST /fbPosts — filtered historical search for Facebook posts
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-fbposts-api-openapi.yml#fbposts
  - name: fbinfluencers
    description: POST /fbInfluencers — Facebook pages driving engagement for a query
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-fbinfluencers-api-openapi.yml#fbinfluencers
  - name: twitterinfluencers
    description: POST /twitterInfluencers — Twitter accounts driving engagement for a query
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-twitterinfluencers-api-openapi.yml#twitterinfluencers
  - name: stats
    description: POST /stats — aggregated engagement statistics for a query
    source_operation: openapi/newswhip-stats-api-openapi.yml#stats
crosswalk_ref: mcp/newswhip-tool-crosswalk.yml