Search and read VI Update and Good Day (U.S. Virgin Islands news) and The Straight Record.
Connect Remote server
claude mcp add --transport http news https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"news": {
"url": "https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"news": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp"
}
}
}
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URL: https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp
Tools 8 found in our last check
searchKeyword search across published VI Update articles, Good Day, This Week editions, The Straight Record editions and VI Update's Papers (long-form reports from the public record), or one of them. Use for finding coverage of a person, place, agency or event. Each result has an id f…
fetchThe full text of one published item, by the id search or a list returns (such as "viupdate:<slug>", "goodday:036", "straightrecord:042" or "paper:<slug>") or by its public URL. Use for reading an article or edition before quoting or summarizing it. Returns up to 40,000 character…
latestThe newest published items: by default the newest VI Update articles, the newest Good Day, This Week edition and the newest Straight Record edition; or the newest items of one publication. Use for "what is new" or for current coverage. Each item has an id for fetch, its date, he…
list_itemsPublished items of one publication, newest first, optionally between two dates, with paging. Use for browsing what a publication ran in a week, month or year. VI Update articles are dated by the date the article shows; Good Day and Straight Record editions by their publication d…
get_good_day_editionOne Good Day, This Week edition in full and in structure, by its number (such as "036" or "36"), or the newest when no number is given. Use for the week's stories with their sources, the tracked weekly items (WAPA, government, federal, infrastructure), By the Numbers and Also Th…
get_straight_record_editionOne Straight Record edition in full, by its id (such as "042", "42" or "P001", or the edition URL), or the newest when no id is given. Use for reading every story's The Gap, Left Said, Right Said and The Record (or The Record So Far), with sources, verbatim quotes and their attr…
claims_of_the_weekThe Claim of the Week fact check from Straight Record Sunday editions, newest first: the claim as quoted, who said it and when, the verdict and the analysis, with the edition date, URL and citeAs line. Use for what The Straight Record has fact-checked. Verdicts are the edition's…
aboutWhat this server holds: how many published items each publication has, the date range each covers, when the VI Update and Good Day data were last refreshed, how each publication is credited, and what is not included; also every published Paper by id, with its date, version, DOI…
Details
| Endpoint | https://mcp.viupdate.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP) |
| First published | 10 Nov 2026 |
| Last updated | 10 Nov 2026 |
| Registry name | com.viupdate/news |
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