espn_news
ESPN league news. Returns recent news articles (headline, description, link) for a league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The sport enum accepts football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The league enum accepts nfl, college-football, nba, wnba, mens-college-basketball, womens-c...
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What espn_news does on Crawlora
AI agents call espn_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 |
|---|---|---|---|
sport | string | Yes | Sport key |
league | string | Yes | League key (must be valid for the sport) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why espn_news is rated Low
This tool performs a simple read operation that retrieves publicly available news data from ESPN. It requires no credentials, makes no modifications, executes no code or commands, and has no destructive or financial implications. The operation is purely informational with minimal blast radius if misused by an AI agent.
From the tool's definition Returns recent news articles (headline, description, link) for a league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The tool retrieves and queries data with no side effects.
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The rule that runs espn_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 espn_news, this is the rule to start with:
espn_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 espn_news call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about espn_news
ESPN league news. Returns recent news articles (headline, description, link) for a league from ESPN's credential-free public JSON. The sport enum accepts football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer. The league enum accepts nfl, college-football, nba, wnba, mens-college-basketball, womens-college-basketball, mlb, nhl, eng.1, esp.1, ita.1, ger.1, fra.1, usa.1, and uefa.champions; it must be valid for the chosen sport. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Crawlora MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
espn_news accepts 2 parameters: sport, league. Required: sport, league. 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 espn_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.
espn_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 espn_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 espn_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.
espn_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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