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NewsData

NewsData.io provides live breaking news and historical news data going back to January 2018, sourced from over 82,000 sources worldwide. The API supports searching, filtering by source, language, country, and category, and returns results in JSON format suitable for analytics, monitoring, and AI training.

NewsData publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include News, Media, Search, and Content.

NewsData’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, and 4 more developer resources.

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22.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
NewsMediaSearchContent

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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

NewsData

NewsData.io API for retrieving live breaking news and historical news data from over 82,000 sources, with search, filtering, and multi-language support.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Newsdata Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Newsdata Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Newsdata Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Newsdata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup
Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText
LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: newsdata
name: NewsData
description: NewsData.io provides live breaking news and historical news data going back to January 2018, sourced from over
  82,000 sources worldwide. The API supports searching, filtering by source, language, country, and category, and returns
  results in JSON format suitable for analytics, monitoring, and AI training.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/newsdata.png
tags:
- News
- Media
- Search
- Content
created: '2025-02-09'
modified: '2026-07-25'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/newsdata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: newsdata:newsdata
  name: NewsData
  description: NewsData.io API for retrieving live breaking news and historical news data from over 82,000 sources, with search,
    filtering, and multi-language support.
  humanURL: https://newsdata.io/
  tags:
  - News
  - Media
  - Search
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://newsdata.io/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://newsdata.io/register
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://newsdata.io/pricing
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/newsdata-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/newsdataapi
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newsdata
- type: Documentation
  name: NewsData Documentation
  description: Official API documentation for NewsData.io.
  url: https://newsdata.io/documentation
- type: Signup
  name: NewsData Sign Up
  description: Register for an API key to access the NewsData.io API.
  url: https://newsdata.io/register
- type: Pricing
  name: NewsData Pricing
  description: Pricing tiers for the NewsData.io API.
  url: https://newsdata.io/pricing
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://newsdata.io/llms.txt
- url: https://newsdata.io/blog/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com