NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector

NYTimes Top Stories is The New York Times' API service for accessing current news articles organized by editorial section. The NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector allows AI agents to retrieve lists of articles and associated images by section, including home, world, business, technology, and other major news categories. It supports accessing article metadata such as headlines, abstracts, bylines, publication dates, and multimedia assets to enable news monitoring and content aggregation workflows.

Authentication type

• API Key - Requires a static API key to be configured before the agent can connect to the service.

Uses

Use the NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector to perform the following actions:

• Monitor breaking news across business, technology, and world sections daily
• Curate industry-specific article feeds for internal team newsletters and communications
• Track media coverage trends in your sector to inform competitive intelligence strategy
• Automatically extract top story images for marketing presentations and social content
• Route relevant articles to department heads based on section and topic relevance
• Build a centralized news archive for compliance and regulatory monitoring purposes
• Feed real-time news data into business intelligence dashboards for executive briefings
• Trigger alerts when top stories mention your organization, competitors, or industry keywords

Example prompts

Use the following example prompts to invoke NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:

• Show me the top stories from the business section right now.
• Pull all articles from the technology section published today.
• Get the latest top stories and their associated images.
• Display top stories from the world news section.
• Retrieve current headlines from the science and health sections.
• Find top stories that mention artificial intelligence or machine learning.
• Show me all available sections in NYTimes Top Stories.
• Get the top stories from the U.S. section with their article links.
• Retrieve top stories and filter them by publication date.
• Pull top stories from multiple sections for our morning briefing.

NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector tools

The NYTimes Top Stories MCP connector provides the following tools. Each tool maps to a specific action you can invoke from your AI agent or automation.

Tool	Description
getRoot	Retrieves the latest top stories from the New York Times.