bing_news
Search Bing news results. Returns normalized Bing news search results for a query string. Locale defaults to country=us and lang=en-us. Results are fetched from public Bing news HTML/async pages and return 503 when Bing serves a challenge page or unusable HTML.
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What bing_news does on Crawlora
AI agents call bing_news to retrieve information from Crawlora without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Yes | Search query |
lang | string | — | Bing UI language; defaults to en-us |
page | integer | — | 1-based page number; defaults to 1 |
count | integer | — | Results per page; defaults to 10, clamped to 1..50 |
country | string | — | Two-letter country code; defaults to us |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why bing_news is rated Low
This tool retrieves publicly available news search results from Bing without any side effects, data modification, code execution, or destructive operations. It is a straightforward information retrieval tool that queries a public search service and returns results. The low severity reflects the minimal risk from misuse—searching news poses no financial, destructive, or system security threat.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Search Bing news results' and 'Returns normalized Bing news search results for a query string'. The operation is explicitly a search/retrieval action with no modification or execution capabilities.
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The rule that runs bing_news safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Crawlora, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For bing_news, this is the rule to start with:
bing_news is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Crawlora, apply this rule, and every bing_news call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about bing_news
Search Bing news results. Returns normalized Bing news search results for a query string. Locale defaults to country=us and lang=en-us. Results are fetched from public Bing news HTML/async pages and return 503 when Bing serves a challenge page or unusable HTML. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlora MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
bing_news accepts 5 parameters: q, lang, page, count, country. Required: q. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Crawlora MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bing_news: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Crawlora. Nothing to install.
bing_news is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the bing_news rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for bing_news. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
bing_news is provided by the Crawlora MCP server (crawlora-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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