Prnewswire MCP Server

@pipeworx/prnewswire

Live press releases from PR Newswire's site-wide RSS feed — headline, issuer, industry tags, publish time and excerpt, newest first.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.

Tools

• prnewswire_latest_releases(since_hours?, limit?) — the current rolling window of releases, newest first. newest_item_at tells a caller whether the feed is quiet or stalled.
• prnewswire_search_releases(query, limit?) — keyword/company match over headline, issuer, excerpt and industry tags, within the current window only.
• prnewswire_get_release(url) — one specific release, matched by the URL a prior call returned. Fails clearly (not silently empty) if the release has scrolled out of the current window.

Auth

Keyless. No account, no clickthrough terms.

Data sources

• https://www.prnewswire.com/rss/news-releases-list.rss — PR Newswire's "All News Releases" feed. Its own description spans politics/government, business, technology, religion, sports/entertainment, science/nature and health/lifestyle, in English or other languages. It holds roughly the ~20 most recent releases site-wide — typically under two hours of volume — and every call re-fetches this same rolling window live. It is not an archive: search_releases only ever searches what is currently in the window, and get_release can miss a release that has already scrolled off.

The issuer name is pulled from <dc:contributor>, not from <media:credit role="publishing company"> — that tag names PR Newswire itself on every item, not the issuer, so treating it as a byline would mislabel every release as being "by PRNewswire".

Cloudflare bot-management quirk, worth knowing if you extend this pack: the feed URL intermittently 301-redirects to a trailing-slash variant that itself 404s — roughly 1 in 3 fresh requests, measured live 2026-09-21 (8-request sample: 3/8). It is a cookie-issuing challenge redirect, not a real outage; the next fresh request typically succeeds. This pack retries up to 3 attempts before reporting the wire down.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prnewswire": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/prnewswire/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/prnewswire/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/prnewswire_latest_releases \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/prnewswire_latest_releases. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prnewswire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-prnewswire"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-prnewswire

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Prnewswire data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT