Give Claude, Cursor or any MCP client the ability to search news and read the article text. Not headlines: the body of the story, back to 1995.
Point your client at the endpoint and paste your API key. This is the whole setup.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hawkcrawl": {
"url": "https://api.hawkcrawl.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer hc_live_your_key" }
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"hawkcrawl": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "hawkcrawl-mcp"],
"env": { "HAWKCRAWL_API_KEY": "hc_live_your_key" }
}
}
}Source: github.com/mohamidi74/hawkcrawl-mcp — MIT.
The article text is the point. A news feed gives an agent a headline and a link, and an agent cannot reason about a link. We fetch the page and extract the body — 77% of the time, measured over 636 articles across thirteen subjects and four periods.
The other 23% comes back labelled, not empty. paywalled, blocked, unavailable — so your agent says "Reuters wants a subscription" instead of hallucinating a summary of an article it never read. That distinction is the whole reason to send a status rather than a null.
The archive reaches 1995. Questions about what was reported at the time are answerable, not just what is being reported now. Link resolution held at 16 of 16 at every depth we tested, including 1995.
Every other news and search API in this space takes cards and only cards. We take about thirty cryptocurrencies, and the free tier needs no payment method at all. If you are building outside the US or the EU, that is often the difference between using a tool and closing the tab.
Credits never expire and there is no subscription to cancel.
1 credit to search, 4 to resolve a link, 20 for an article with its full text — and nothing for what we could not deliver. That is $20 per 1,000 delivered articles, falling to $8 as you top up more at once. Full pricing.
5,000 free credits a month, renewed. Enough to read 250 full articles before you pay anything.
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