Mediastack

Mediastack is a free and paid REST API by apilayer for live, historical, and blog news articles aggregated from more than 7,500 publishers across 50+ countries and 13 languages. It exposes a /v1/news endpoint for keyword-, source-, country-, language-, category-, and date-filtered search, and a /v1/sources endpoint for browsing the underlying publisher catalog.

Mediastack publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: News API and Sources API. Tagged areas include News, News Aggregation, Media, APILayer, and Public APIs.

The Mediastack catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Mediastack’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, signup flow, pricing, support, FAQ, and 16 more developer resources.

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57.7/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 10 Features 6 Use Cases

News News Aggregation Media APILayer Public APIs

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Media, Creator & Social

AE-170

News

GET /news

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 57.7/100 · strong

Contract Quality 13.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 17

Access Clarity 14.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent ready

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 7 / 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

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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
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)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Operational Transparency scores 13.2 — up to +11.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 63.9 — up to +9.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 56.0 — up to +8.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
News and Media	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

Mediastack News API

Live and historical news articles from global publishers.

Mediastack Sources API

Discovery of supported news sources, publishers, and blogs.

Postman Collections 2

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Mediastack News API

POSTMAN

Mediastack News Sources API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 3

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

Mediastack News API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mediastack News Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mediastack News API

OPEN COLLECTION

Mediastack API pricing

Prices published by Mediastack, read 2026-10-28 from mediastack.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0 per month Includes: 100 Calls / mo
Standard	$24.99 per month Includes: 10,000 Calls / mo
Professional	$99.99 per month Includes: 50,000 Calls / mo
Business	$249.99 per month Includes: 250,000 Calls / mo
Enterprise	Custom Pricing Includes: Volume Calls / mo

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Rate limits

Monthly Request Quota (Free): 100 requests per month
Monthly Request Quota (Standard): 10000 requests per month
Monthly Request Quota (Professional): 50000 requests per month

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Mediastack's documentation. All 8 limits →

Billed by: api calls · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Mediastack Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Mediastack Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mediastack Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Mediastack

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Mediastack Finops

FINOPS

Features 10

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Live News Data

Real-time aggregation of articles from 7,500+ global news publishers.

Historical News

Date-bounded lookups of past articles via the date query parameter (paid plans).

Multi-Language Coverage

Articles indexed across 13 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic.

Multi-Country Coverage

Filter by 50+ country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Category Filtering

Restrict to general, business, entertainment, health, science, sports, or technology.

Source Filtering

Include/exclude lists of specific publishers via comma-separated IDs.

Keyword Search

Full-text search across article title, description, and body.

Publisher Catalog

Browse the /sources catalog by country, language, or category.

HTTPS Encryption

Encrypted transport on Standard plan and above.

Commercial Use License

Permitted on Standard plan and above.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Mediastack Context

13 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Mediastack — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Mediastack API Rules

9 rules · 5 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NewsArticle

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pagination

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Source

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Mediastack News Article Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mediastack Source Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Mediastack Historical News Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Mediastack List Sources Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Mediastack Search News Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Mediastack Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Mediastack Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Mediastack Agentic Access

2 operations

2 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers build with this provider.

News Aggregator Apps

Power consumer-facing news readers with category- and language-filtered feeds.

Media Monitoring

Track brand, executive, product, or competitor mentions across global press.

Investor Research

Stream business-tagged headlines into trading dashboards.

AI Training Corpora

Sample current-events text for fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation.

Trend Analysis

Tally publication volume and sentiment around recurring keywords.

Newsletter Curation

Auto-generate daily digests by country, language, or topic.

Integrations 3

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

apilayer Marketplace

Mediastack is one of several APIs in the apilayer marketplace alongside marketstack, currencylayer, weatherstack, and ipapi.

REST + JSON

Standard HTTPS+JSON makes it trivial to integrate with any HTTP client library.

Postman / Insomnia

Manual import of the OpenAPI spec into common API clients.

Solutions 5

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

Free Plan

Evaluation tier, 100 requests/month, HTTP only, no historical data, no commercial use.

Standard Plan

$24.99/month, 10k requests, HTTPS, historical data, commercial use.

Professional Plan

$99.99/month, 50k requests, lower overage rate.

Business Plan

$249.99/month, 250k requests, lowest published overage rate.

Enterprise Plan

Custom volume, platinum support, custom solutions.

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Signup

Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Support

FAQ

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

PublicAPIsListing

PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: mediastack
name: Mediastack
description: Mediastack is a free and paid REST API by apilayer for live, historical, and blog news articles aggregated from
  more than 7,500 publishers across 50+ countries and 13 languages. It exposes a /v1/news endpoint for keyword-, source-,
  country-, language-, category-, and date-filtered search, and a /v1/sources endpoint for browsing the underlying publisher
  catalog.
url: https://mediastack.com
humanURL: https://mediastack.com
baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  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
image: https://mediastack.com/site_images/mediastack_logo_dark.svg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-30'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: News
x-tier: 2
x-tier-reason: company-tiered-commercial-news-aggregation
x-docs-platform: redoc
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- News
- News Aggregation
- Media
- APILayer
- Public APIs
tags_raw:
- News
- News Aggregation
- Media
- Apilayer
- Public APIs
apis:
- aid: mediastack:mediastack-news-api
  name: Mediastack News API
  description: Live and historical news articles from global publishers.
  humanURL: https://mediastack.com/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mediastack-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#quickstart
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#authentication
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-news-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-source-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-pagination-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-error-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/mediastack-news-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/mediastack-source-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-search-news-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-list-sources-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-historical-news-example.json
- aid: mediastack:mediastack-sources-api
  name: Mediastack Sources API
  description: Discovery of supported news sources, publishers, and blogs.
  humanURL: https://mediastack.com/documentation
  baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mediastack-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#quickstart
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#authentication
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-news-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-source-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-pagination-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/mediastack-error-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/mediastack-news-article-structure.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/mediastack-source-structure.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-search-news-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-list-sources-example.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/mediastack-historical-news-example.json
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/mediastack-capability-edges.yml
  name: Mediastack Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/apilayer/mediastack/issues
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/mediastack/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/mediastack-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mediastack-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/mediastack-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://mediastack.com
- type: Portal
  url: https://mediastack.com/dashboard
- type: Signup
  url: https://mediastack.com/signup/free
- type: Pricing
  url: https://mediastack.com/product
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://mediastack.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://mediastack.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://mediastack.com/contact
- type: FAQ
  url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#faq
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/apilayer/mediastack
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/mediastack-context.jsonld
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/mediastack-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/mediastack-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mediastack-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mediastack-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mediastack-finops.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Live News Data
    description: Real-time aggregation of articles from 7,500+ global news publishers.
  - name: Historical News
    description: Date-bounded lookups of past articles via the date query parameter (paid plans).
  - name: Multi-Language Coverage
    description: Articles indexed across 13 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic.
  - name: Multi-Country Coverage
    description: Filter by 50+ country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
  - name: Category Filtering
    description: Restrict to general, business, entertainment, health, science, sports, or technology.
  - name: Source Filtering
    description: Include/exclude lists of specific publishers via comma-separated IDs.
  - name: Keyword Search
    description: Full-text search across article title, description, and body.
  - name: Publisher Catalog
    description: Browse the /sources catalog by country, language, or category.
  - name: HTTPS Encryption
    description: Encrypted transport on Standard plan and above.
  - name: Commercial Use License
    description: Permitted on Standard plan and above.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: News Aggregator Apps
    description: Power consumer-facing news readers with category- and language-filtered feeds.
  - name: Media Monitoring
    description: Track brand, executive, product, or competitor mentions across global press.
  - name: Investor Research
    description: Stream business-tagged headlines into trading dashboards.
  - name: AI Training Corpora
    description: Sample current-events text for fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation.
  - name: Trend Analysis
    description: Tally publication volume and sentiment around recurring keywords.
  - name: Newsletter Curation
    description: Auto-generate daily digests by country, language, or topic.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: apilayer Marketplace
    description: Mediastack is one of several APIs in the apilayer marketplace alongside marketstack, currencylayer, weatherstack,
      and ipapi.
  - name: REST + JSON
    description: Standard HTTPS+JSON makes it trivial to integrate with any HTTP client library.
  - name: Postman / Insomnia
    description: Manual import of the OpenAPI spec into common API clients.
- type: Solutions
  data:
  - name: Free Plan
    description: Evaluation tier, 100 requests/month, HTTP only, no historical data, no commercial use.
  - name: Standard Plan
    description: $24.99/month, 10k requests, HTTPS, historical data, commercial use.
  - name: Professional Plan
    description: $99.99/month, 50k requests, lower overage rate.
  - name: Business Plan
    description: $249.99/month, 250k requests, lowest published overage rate.
  - name: Enterprise Plan
    description: Custom volume, platinum support, custom solutions.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Mediastack API — frequently asked questions

Does Mediastack have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Mediastack, including Mediastack News API and Mediastack Sources API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Mediastack API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Mediastack API?

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

How much does the Mediastack API cost?

Mediastack publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 per month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Mediastack, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Mediastack API ready for AI agents?

Mediastack has a Kin Score of 57.7 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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