ag2-webzio

Search global news with Webz.io from AG2 agents — in natural language, with the most relevant articles first.

Webz.io News Search covers news and current events from sources worldwide. Ask a question in plain language, narrow results with filters (language, country, date, sentiment, domain, ticker, and more), and get back focused article excerpts with titles, URLs, and metadata.

Use this package with AG2 agents, or construct the toolkit directly to verify MCP connectivity.

What you get

• Natural-language search — no keyword hacking. Example: "EU AI Act enforcement updates" or "How is Tesla stock reacting to earnings?"
• Worldwide coverage — semantic search over Webz.io's global news index.
• Rich filters — language, country, days, sentiment, domain, ticker, person, organization, topic, and more. See the MCP tool reference.
• Live schema — filters are loaded from the hosted MCP server (tools/list). New Webz filters appear automatically, without republishing this package.
• AG2 toolkit — pass WebzioNewsSearchToolkit(...) to Agent(tools=[...]), or use toolkit.search() to register only news search.

Install

pip install ag2-webzio
export WEBZ_API_TOKEN="your-webz-api-token"

Get a token from your Webz.io dashboard (same token as the News Search API).

Requires AG2 v1 with MCP support (ag2[mcp]>=1.0, installed automatically).

Full setup and client options: MCP Server docs.

With an AG2 agent

import os
from ag2 import Agent
from ag2.config import AnthropicConfig
from ag2_webzio import WebzioNewsSearchToolkit

agent = Agent(
    "researcher",
    config=AnthropicConfig(model="claude-sonnet-4-6"),
    tools=[WebzioNewsSearchToolkit(api_token=os.environ["WEBZ_API_TOKEN"])],
)

The model discovers the live news_search_by_webz schema and picks filters itself. Example prompts:

• "Search Webz news for recent Nvidia supply-chain risk coverage and summarize with sources."
• "Find negative coverage about Boeing from the last 7 days using Webz news search."
• "Use the Webz news tool to compare EU and US AI regulation news from the past month."

Register only news search

When the MCP server exposes more than one tool, register news search with search():

toolkit = WebzioNewsSearchToolkit(api_token="your-webz-api-token")
agent = Agent("researcher", config=config, tools=[toolkit.search()])

Today the server exposes a single tool, so toolkit and toolkit.search() are equivalent.

Verify MCP connectivity (no LLM)

export WEBZ_API_TOKEN="your-token"
python examples/run_news_search.py

How it works

This package wraps AG2's client-side MCPToolkit around the hosted Webz News Search MCP server at https://news-search-mcp.webz.io/mcp. Each tool call runs a regular News Search API request with your token (same credits and rate limits). Filter fields are not hardcoded — the tool schema comes from the live server.

Configuration

You can also pass api_token= and mcp_url= to WebzioNewsSearchToolkit().

Links

• Webz.io
• News Search MCP documentation
• MCP server landing page
• News Search API filters
• AG2 MCP servers guide
• GitHub