Mediastack · Example Payload

Mediastack Historical News Example

NewsNews AggregationMediaApilayerPublic APIs

Mediastack Historical News Example is an example object payload from Mediastack, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponsenotes

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.mediastack.com/v1/news?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&date=2026-05-01,2026-05-15&countries=us&keywords=election&limit=1"
  },
  "response": {
    "pagination": {
      "limit": 1,
      "offset": 0,
      "count": 1,
      "total": 312
    },
    "data": [
      {
        "author": "Reuters Staff",
        "title": "State Officials Certify Primary Election Results",
        "description": "Certification proceeded on schedule across battleground counties.",
        "url": "https://example.com/election-results",
        "source": "Reuters",
        "image": "https://example.com/img/election.jpg",
        "category": "general",
        "language": "en",
        "country": "us",
        "published_at": "2026-05-15T22:14:00+00:00"
      }
    ]
  },
  "notes": "The `date` parameter is only available on Standard plans and above. Free-plan requests with `date` will receive HTTP 403 with `function_access_restricted`."
}