Give Claude live web search and real-time news

Claude is excellent at reasoning, but on its own it only knows what it learned in training. A custom connector gives it NestDaddy's nine tools: news by key words from around the world, country news, web search from NestDaddy's own index, the full text of any page, research papers, and fresh data on AI models, software and games.

Add the connector

1. Get a key at nestdaddy.com/mcp. The free plan gives 1,000 calls a month, no card.
2. In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector.
3. Name it NestDaddy and paste this URL, with your key at the end:

https://mcp.nestdaddy.com/mcp?key=YOUR_KEY

Claude connectors cannot send custom headers, so the key goes in the URL. Treat that URL like a password.

Try it

Start a new chat with the connector turned on and ask something that happened recently:

What did OpenAI announce this week? Read the main article and give me the key points with links.

Claude calls news_search, then read_page on the best article, and answers with sources. You can watch each tool call in the chat.

Tips

• Ask for dates and links. Claude then shows which day each fact comes from.
• For local news, name the country: "latest news about floods in Jakarta" makes Claude use country_news in Indonesian.
• Turn the connector off for chats that don't need the internet; every connected tool adds a little to the context.

The same server works in Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. Step by step: How to give Claude live web search and news.