TheNewsAPI

TheNewsAPI sources API

News source discovery

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: TheNews news sources API
  description: Global news aggregation REST API providing real-time and historical news articles from thousands of sources with filtering by category, language, country, and search. Indexes over 1 million new articles per week from 40,000+ sources across 50+ countries and 35+ languages.
  version: 1.0.0
  termsOfService: https://www.thenewsapi.com/terms
  contact:
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/contact
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  description: Production server
security:
- ApiToken: []
tags:
- name: sources
  description: News source discovery
paths:
  /news/sources:
    get:
      operationId: getSources
      summary: Sources
      description: List all available news sources that can be used for filtering, including metadata on category and language coverage. Returns a fixed limit of 50 per page.
      tags:
      - sources
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/categories'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/exclude_categories'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/language'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response with paginated list of news sources
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SourceListResponse'
              example:
                meta:
                  found: 40000
                  returned: 50
                  limit: 50
                  page: 1
                data:
                - source_id: techcrunch-us-en
                  domain: techcrunch.com
                  language: en
                  locale: us
                  categories:
                  - tech
                  - business
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServiceUnavailable'
components:
  responses:
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Rate limit reached — too many requests within the 60-second window.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: rate_limit_reached
              message: You have exceeded the rate limit. Please wait before retrying.
    Unauthorized:
      description: Invalid or missing API token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: invalid_api_token
              message: Your API token is invalid.
    ServerError:
      description: Internal server error.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: server_error
              message: An internal server error occurred.
    BadRequest:
      description: Malformed parameters — invalid parameter formatting.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: malformed_parameters
              message: Invalid parameter formatting.
    ServiceUnavailable:
      description: Service temporarily unavailable — maintenance mode.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          example:
            error:
              code: maintenance_mode
              message: The service is temporarily unavailable for maintenance.
  parameters:
    exclude_categories:
      name: exclude_categories
      in: query
      description: Comma-separated list of categories to exclude.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    page:
      name: page
      in: query
      description: Page number for pagination. Maximum total of 20,000 results across all pages.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: integer
        minimum: 1
        default: 1
    categories:
      name: categories
      in: query
      description: 'Comma-separated list of categories to include. Options: general, science, sports, business, health, entertainment, tech, politics, food, travel.'
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        example: tech,business
    language:
      name: language
      in: query
      description: Comma-separated language codes to filter results (e.g., en,es,fr). Supports 35+ languages.
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        example: en,es
  schemas:
    Source:
      type: object
      description: A news source with metadata.
      properties:
        source_id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the source.
        domain:
          type: string
          description: Domain name of the news source.
        language:
          type: string
          description: Primary language of the source.
        locale:
          type: string
          description: Country code locale of the source.
        categories:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
          description: Categories covered by this source.
    SourceListResponse:
      type: object
      description: Paginated list of news sources.
      properties:
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PaginationMeta'
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Source'
    PaginationMeta:
      type: object
      description: Pagination metadata for list responses.
      properties:
        found:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of articles matching the query.
        returned:
          type: integer
          description: Number of articles returned in this response.
        limit:
          type: integer
          description: Maximum number of articles per page.
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Current page number.
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard error response.
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: Machine-readable error code.
            message:
              type: string
              description: Human-readable error description.
  securitySchemes:
    ApiToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_token
      description: API token obtained after free registration at https://www.thenewsapi.com/register