mcp-trendpulseCAUTION
Google News + Google Trends MCP server for keyword, market, SEO, and content research. Free OSS.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
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TrendPulse is a Python Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for researching current news and search-interest trends. It combines Google News discovery and article extraction with Google Trends analysis so MCP clients can inspect what is trending, compare keyword momentum, explore related demand, and add current-news context to research workflows.
The project currently ships as a community/self-hosted MCP server and also contains the implementation for a separate hosted TrendPulse by DigestSEO surface for remote MCP clients such as ChatGPT and Codex. The hosted layer uses a smaller, goal-oriented tool surface while the community server keeps the full low-level research toolkit available to developers.
Project status: the local/community server is usable today. The DigestSEO-hosted MCP and public OpenAI plugin are not released yet and should not be treated as available endpoints.
Engineering context: TrendPulse is part of the DigestSEO MCP ecosystem. It complements mcp-gsc for Google Search Console data, mcp-geo for AI visibility, and mcp-web-validator for technical web validation. The broader architecture is documented in the [DigestSEO MCP Suite engineering case study](https://
e60fc7c9a619OBSERVED · 2026-10-11Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add mcp-trendpulse -- uvx mcp-trendpulse==0.2.37
Trust audit
CAUTIONgrade B · trust 86/100 Install with care. The audit found things worth knowing before you trust its output.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | WARN |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- found
Findings (9)
secret = "sensitive-keyword-that-must-not-be-logged"
secret = "do-not-log-this-keyword-or-token"
"http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data",
if curl --fail --silent http://127.0.0.1:18000/health >/dev/null; then
curl --fail --silent http://127.0.0.1:18000/health | grep '"status":"ok"'
curl --fail --silent http://127.0.0.1:18000/ready | grep '"status":"ready"'
curl --fail --silent http://127.0.0.1:18000/ready | grep '"auth":"disabled"'
http://127.0.0.1:18000/mcp \
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
e60fc7c9a619full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/akzar1el__mcp-trendpulse.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | e60fc7c9a619 | CAUTION | B | 86 | first audit |
Questions
What is the mcp-trendpulse MCP server?
Google News + Google Trends MCP server for keyword, market, SEO, and content research. Free OSS.
Is mcp-trendpulse safe to connect to an agent?
With care. The audit graded it B (86/100) and found 9 things worth knowing before you trust this server, listed below with the exact line each was found on.
What credentials does mcp-trendpulse need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does mcp-trendpulse run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on PyPI as mcp-trendpulse.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (e60fc7c9a619), read on 2026-10-11. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.