`china_news_outlets`

Pack: china-news · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/china_news_outlets for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

List the Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese and overseas-Chinese news publishers Pipeworx has audited — 106 of them — with each one’s jurisdiction, publishing language, how its content is reachable, whether china_news_search can actually search it, and when its most recent indexed article was published. Use this before searching to see what coverage genuinely exists, instead of inferring it from an empty search result.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`region`	string	no
`method`	string	no	Filter by how the publisher’s content is reachable: “gdelt-only”, “native-rss” or “scrape” (substring match).
`searchable_only`	boolean,string	no	true to list only the publishers china_news_search can actually search.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "searchable_only": true
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/china-news/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"china_news_outlets","arguments":{"searchable_only":true}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('china_news_outlets', {
  "searchable_only": true
});

More examples

{
  "region": "tw"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the china-news pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "china-news": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/china-news/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

china_news_outlets