# Mediastack

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mediastack/  
**Website:** https://mediastack.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 55.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 55.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |
| Access Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 41.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (2)

- **Mediastack News API** — Live and historical news articles from global publishers.
- **Mediastack Sources API** — Discovery of supported news sources, publishers, and blogs.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Mediastack Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (2)

- **Mediastack Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Mediastack Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Mediastack Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **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.

## Tags

News, News Aggregation, Media, APILayer, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/mediastack/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.