Meltwater

Search news and social posts, pull sentiment and share-of-voice stats, manage saved searches.

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What the Meltwater connector does

The Meltwater MCP server connects Meltwater's media and social intelligence platform to Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP-compatible agent. Ten tools search billions of news articles and social posts, return sentiment and share-of-voice statistics, generate Boolean queries, and manage saved searches. Seven read, two write, one deletes permanently.

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Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.

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Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.

Meltwater tools (10)

  • explore_plus_list_searches
  • listening_create_search
  • listening_delete_search
  • listening_get_search
  • listening_list_filter_sets
  • listening_list_searches
  • listening_update_search
  • unified_retrieval_document_retrieval_tool
  • unified_retrieval_query_gen_tool
  • unified_retrieval_statistics_retrieval_tool

Tool names from Anthropic's directory listing. This server requires sign-in, so we could not read tool descriptions or parameter schemas.

Limits

  • One tool deletes permanently. Meltwater marks Delete Standard Search as destructive and states it cannot be undone. Meltwater also states Claude asks for approval before it runs.
  • The scope boundary stops one step short. tools:read and tools:call separate reading from acting, which is more than many connectors offer. But tools:call is a single grant covering create, update and permanent delete alike, so no consent choice separates the routine write from the irreversible one.
  • The vendor tool list matches only semantically. Meltwater documents ten Title Case labels and Anthropic ships ten snake_case identifiers, with zero shared strings. They map one-to-one by meaning in both directions, but no literal-string diff is possible, so a rename on either side would not be detectable from outside.
  • Your account may expose fewer than ten tools. Meltwater states the available set depends on your subscribed products; Explore+ tools need an Explore+ subscription. Ten is a ceiling for a fully provisioned account, not a guarantee.
  • X posts come back without their text. Meltwater returns only post and author IDs for X content because of X's terms, so any X analysis needs separate X API access to rehydrate. This silently weakens any question an agent answers from X data.
  • YouTube reach and AVE are absent. Meltwater removed both fields to comply with YouTube's terms, in November 2020 and April 2022.
  • We could not read tool schemas or safety annotations. The endpoint returned 401 to an anonymous request, so no parameter-level detail is published here, and the read/write/delete split is Meltwater's published table rather than the server's own declaration.
  • Meltwater's developer documentation is stale on authentication. It states API tokens are the only supported method and OAuth is "planned"; we observed a live OAuth challenge and a working authorization server on 2026-08-23.
  • The nominated documentation is a Google Doc. It is publicly readable without sign-in, and it is the best source on this connector — but it is unversioned, has no publication date, and can be edited or access-revoked without leaving a trace. Every claim we take from it is dated to when we read it, and may not match what you see.
  • Whether connector output can be redistributed is unresolved. Meltwater's content is third-party licensed and its public pages do not state whether retrieved content may be republished or used as AI training input. Meltwater's /en/terms page returns 404. Check your own Meltwater agreement.
  • Do not confuse this with the Mira API. Meltwater runs a second MCP server at https://api.meltwater.com/mcp — no /v2 — exposing two tools rather than ten.

Frequently asked questions

Can the Meltwater connector post to social media on my behalf?

No. Meltwater's setup guide states the connector is read-only for media content and that the only write operations manage your own saved searches. None of the ten tools names a publish, post or send verb. Meltwater does sell outbound products — press release distribution and mass journalist emails — but no listed tool reaches either one.

Can the Meltwater connector delete anything permanently?

Yes, one thing: a saved search. Meltwater's guide marks Delete Standard Search as a destructive action that cannot be undone, and states that Claude asks you to approve it before the deletion runs. It removes the saved query definition, not the underlying news and social content, which lives in Meltwater's index.

Does the Meltwater MCP server require a paid plan?

Yes, twice over. Meltwater's guide states you need an active Meltwater subscription, and its MCP product page states you also need the Meltwater MCP add-on. Explore+ tools need a further Explore+ subscription. Meltwater's developer portal adds that the exact tool set available depends on the products in your package.

What personal data does the Meltwater connector return?

Names, author handles and approximate locations from public posts. Meltwater's monitored-content privacy notice states the data it collects includes name and approximate location, that special-category data may appear in some content, and that customers can search monitored content by author. The connector's document retrieval filters by author handle directly.

Why does the Meltwater connector return X posts without any text?

X's terms of service, not a connector fault. Meltwater's developer portal states that X posts exported from its API carry only the post ID and author ID, with no content or author details, and that retrieving the text requires calling the X API separately with your own X API access. Meltwater calls this rehydration.

What OAuth permissions does the Meltwater MCP server request?

Two, and they split reads from every write. Meltwater's RFC 9728 descriptor advertised tools:read and tools:call on 2026-08-23. That boundary separates reading from acting, but it does not fall between the routine write and the irreversible one — granting tools:call authorises creating, updating and permanently deleting saved searches alike.

How many tools does the Meltwater MCP server have?

Ten in Anthropic's directory, and Meltwater's setup guide documents exactly the same ten. But Meltwater's developer portal states twice that the tools available depend on the products in your subscription, so ten is what a fully provisioned account sees rather than a fixed ceiling. Your own account may expose fewer.

What is the difference between Meltwater MCP and the Mira API?

Different servers at different URLs. Meltwater MCP is this connector, at api.meltwater.com/v2/mcp, giving an agent ten granular tools. The Mira API is a separate MCP server at api.meltwater.com/mcp exposing two tools, where Meltwater's own assistant does the orchestration and hands back a finished answer. Pointing a client at the wrong URL gets the wrong surface.

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