GNews

A REST News API to search current and historical articles and retrieve trending news in over 22 languages across 30 countries from 60,000+ sources.

GNews publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Headlines API and Search API. Tagged areas include Articles, Headlines, News, and Search.

The GNews catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

GNews’ developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, signup flow, pricing, and 8 more developer resources.

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32.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Articles Headlines News Search

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 32.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

GNews Headlines API

The Headlines API from GNews — 1 operation(s) for headlines.

GNews Search API

The Search API from GNews — 1 operation(s) for search.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

GNews Headlines API

OPEN COLLECTION

GNews Headlines Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

GNews API

OPEN COLLECTION

GNews API pricing

Not yet checked against GNews's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against GNews's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Gnews Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Gnews Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

GNews

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Gnews Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

GNews API Rules

56 rules · 54 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Gnews Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gnews Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Gnews Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gnews
name: GNews
description: A REST News API to search current and historical articles and retrieve trending news in over 22 languages across
  30 countries from 60,000+ sources.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gnews.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Articles
- Headlines
- News
- Search
created: '2025-02-09'
modified: '2026-10-06'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gnews/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: gnews:gnews-headlines-api
  name: GNews Headlines API
  description: The Headlines API from GNews — 1 operation(s) for headlines.
  humanURL: https://gnews.io/
  baseURL: https://gnews.io/api/v4
  tags:
  - Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gnews-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gnews.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gnews.io/#introduction
- aid: gnews:gnews-search-api
  name: GNews Search API
  description: The Search API from GNews — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://gnews.io/
  baseURL: https://gnews.io/api/v4
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gnews-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gnews.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gnews.io/#introduction
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/gnews-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/gnews-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/gnews-finops.yml
- url: https://gnews.io/blog
  type: Blog
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/gnews-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gnews-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gnews-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gnews
- type: Website
  url: https://gnews.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.gnews.io/
- type: Signup
  url: https://gnews.io/#register
- type: Pricing
  url: https://gnews.io/#pricing
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://gnews.io/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

GNews API — frequently asked questions

Does GNews have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from GNews, including GNews Headlines API and GNews Search API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the GNews API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for GNews, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the GNews API?

GNews uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Gnews Authentication.

How much does the GNews API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for GNews, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the GNews API ready for AI agents?

GNews has a Kin Score of 32.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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