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How to Scrape News for Monitoring with Copilot

Monitor news in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. News extraction for building media monitoring tools.

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Web Scraper

Copilot scrapes news content from your IDE, useful for developers building media monitoring tools, news aggregation features, or brand tracking dashboards. Extract article text, metadata, and publication details alongside the code that processes them for faster feature development with real data.

Connect ToolRouter to Copilot

1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouter
Server description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.
Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp
3Set Authentication to None and click Create
No API key needed — account created automatically.All platforms →

Steps

Once connected (see setup above), use the Web Scraper tool:

  1. Ask Copilot: "Search for news about our-company and extract article data"
  2. Review the extracted article data in your editor
  3. Ask: "Generate an API endpoint that returns news monitoring results in this format"
  4. Build the monitoring feature into your application

Example Prompt

Try this with Copilot using the Web Scraper tool
Search for recent news about "our-company" and generate a TypeScript interface for the article data structure.

Tips

  • Perfect for building custom media monitoring dashboards
  • Copilot can generate webhook handlers for real-time news alerts
  • Use extracted data to prototype news aggregation features

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