News API

Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API.

News API publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Articles API, Headlines API, and Sources API. Tagged areas include News, Articles, Headlines, and Search.

News API’s developer surface includes authentication and 2 more developer resources.

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26.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

News Articles Headlines Search

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 26.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 35/100 · 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 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

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APIs 3

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

News API Articles API

The Articles API from News API — 1 operation(s) for articles.

News API Headlines API

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

News API Sources API

The Sources API from News API — 1 operation(s) for sources.

Open Collections 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

News Articles API

OPEN COLLECTION

News Articles Headlines API

OPEN COLLECTION

News Articles Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

News API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

NewsAPI GraphQL Schema

Conceptual GraphQL schema for the [NewsAPI](https://newsapi.org/) news aggregation REST API. NewsAPI provides access to breaking headlines and a searchable index of articles fro...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

News Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

News Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

News Api Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

News Api Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

News Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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News Api Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Source (apis.yml)

aid: news-api
name: News API
description: Locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web with our JSON API.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/news-api.png
tags:
- News
- Articles
- Headlines
- Search
created: '2025-02-09'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/news-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: news-api:news-api-articles-api
  name: News API Articles API
  description: The Articles API from News API — 1 operation(s) for articles.
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/news-api-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/news-api-graphql.md
- aid: news-api:news-api-headlines-api
  name: News API Headlines API
  description: The Headlines API from News API — 1 operation(s) for headlines.
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/news-api-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/news-api-graphql.md
- aid: news-api:news-api-sources-api
  name: News API Sources API
  description: The Sources API from News API — 1 operation(s) for sources.
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/news-api-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/news-api-graphql.md
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/news-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/news-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/news-api-authentication.yml

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