Meltwater
by Meltwater
Search billions of news articles and social posts, pull sentiment and share-of-voice statistics, and manage saved searches from an AI agent. Ten tools, seven read, two write, one permanent delete. Needs a paid Meltwater subscription plus the MCP add-on.
Verified connector
Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.
Connection checked by Agentman on .
Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.
Connect Meltwater via MCP
https://api.meltwater.com/v2/mcpWorks in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.
Meltwater Tools & Capabilities (10)
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:readandtools:callseparate reading from acting, which is more than many connectors offer. Buttools:callis 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/termspage 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sources
- Meltwater Connector for Claude, Help & Setup Guide (retrieved 2026-08-23). Publicly readable; plain text via the
/export?format=txtroute. Unversioned and undated. · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Meltwater MCP overview, developer portal (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater MCP, connecting a custom agent (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater MCP Tools Explorer (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Mira API MCP server, including its published two-tool
tools/listresponse (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Meltwater developer portal index,
llms.txt(retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 - Meltwater API compliance changes, X and YouTube field removals (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater guide, Rehydrating X Posts (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater Explore+ overview, private index and API data limits (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater MCP product page and its FAQ (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater Press Release Distribution — · Media Relations (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater Privacy Notice for data subjects in monitored content (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Meltwater privacy policy (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23
- Live OAuth posture check: anonymous initialize returned 401 with a
Www-Authenticateheader naming the RFC 9728 descriptor athttps://api.meltwater.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/v2/mcp, and authorization server metadata athttps://app.meltwater.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server(2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23 developer.meltwater.com/robots.txt, explicitly permitting AI crawlers (retrieved 2026-08-23) · retrieved 2026-08-23- Anthropic Connectors Directory entry — , read from our directory snapshot dated 2026-08-16 · retrieved 2026-08-16
- Meltwater support — <mailto:help@meltwater.com> · Privacy
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