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NewsAPI

NewsAPI is a simple, easy-to-use REST API that returns JSON metadata for news articles and breaking headlines published by over 80,000 worldwide sources and blogs. The API supports full-text keyword search across hundreds of millions of articles, filtering by source domain, language, date range, and sorting by relevance or publication date. A dedicated top-headlines endpoint delivers live breaking news by country and category — covering business, entertainment, general, health, science, sports, and technology. Developers authenticate via an API key passed as a query parameter or HTTP header, and all responses are returned as standard JSON.

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

The NewsAPI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

NewsAPI’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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51.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
3 APIs
NewsHeadlinesArticlesSearchMediaContentRESTJSON

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 51.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 4
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APIs 3

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

NewsAPI Everything API

Search all articles from all sources

NewsAPI Sources API

Get available news sources

NewsAPI Top Headlines API

Get live top and breaking headlines

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Newsapi Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Newsapi Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Newsapi Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Newsapi Context

2 classes · 29 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

NewsAPI API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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

Article

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NewsSource

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Newsapi Everything Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Newsapi Sources Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Newsapi Top Headlines Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Newsapi Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Newsapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Newsapi Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: newsapi
name: NewsAPI
description: 'NewsAPI is a simple, easy-to-use REST API that returns JSON metadata for news articles and breaking headlines
  published by over 80,000 worldwide sources and blogs. The API supports full-text keyword search across hundreds of millions
  of articles, filtering by source domain, language, date range, and sorting by relevance or publication date. A dedicated
  top-headlines endpoint delivers live breaking news by country and category — covering business, entertainment, general,
  health, science, sports, and technology. Developers authenticate via an API key passed as a query parameter or HTTP header,
  and all responses are returned as standard JSON.

  '
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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/newsapi.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- News
- Headlines
- Articles
- Search
- Media
- Content
- REST
- JSON
apis:
- aid: newsapi:newsapi-everything-api
  name: NewsAPI Everything API
  description: Search all articles from all sources
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Everything
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newsapi-everything-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-source-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-error-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/newsapi-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-ld/newsapi-context.jsonld
- aid: newsapi:newsapi-sources-api
  name: NewsAPI Sources API
  description: Get available news sources
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newsapi-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-source-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-error-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/newsapi-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-ld/newsapi-context.jsonld
- aid: newsapi:newsapi-top-headlines-api
  name: NewsAPI Top Headlines API
  description: Get live top and breaking headlines
  humanURL: https://newsapi.org/
  baseURL: https://newsapi.org/v2
  tags:
  - Top Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/newsapi-top-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsapi.org/docs
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-source-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-schema/newsapi-error-schema.json
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/newsapi-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsapi/refs/heads/main/json-ld/newsapi-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/newsapi-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/newsapi-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/newsapi-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://newsapi.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://newsapi.org/docs
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/News-API-gh
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsapi
- type: Blog
  url: https://newsapi.org/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://newsapi.org/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://newsapi.org/status
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/newsapi
- type: Plans
  url: plans/newsapi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/newsapi-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/newsapi-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com