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 API contracts indexed 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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News Headlines Articles Search Media Content REST JSON

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17

Access Clarity 2.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 11

Contract Governance 2.4 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 33/100 · 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 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 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 Ask about this →
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Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it Ask about this →

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 14.9 — up to +17.0 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 11.9 — up to +11.5 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 3

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.

JSON

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

REST

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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

Open Collections 3

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

News Everything API

OPEN COLLECTION

News Everything Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

News Everything Top Headlines API

OPEN COLLECTION

NewsAPI pricing

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

Plan	Price
Developer	Free
Business	$449.0
Advanced	$1749.0
Enterprise	Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

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

5 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. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

NewsAPI — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

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 (API Evangelist recommendations) 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

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

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
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: '2026-11-13'
  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: '0.23'
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

NewsAPI — frequently asked questions

Does NewsAPI have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from NewsAPI, including NewsAPI Everything API, NewsAPI Sources API and NewsAPI Top Headlines API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the NewsAPI?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for NewsAPI, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the NewsAPI?

NewsAPI uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as NewsAPI Authentication.

How much does the NewsAPI cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for NewsAPI, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the NewsAPI ready for AI agents?

NewsAPI has a Kin Score of 33.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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