The News API

The News API provides free access to search worldwide news and top stories from over 40,000 sources in 50 countries. Access live and historical news articles with advanced filtering by keyword, category, language, country, domain, and date. The API supports boolean search operators, pagination, and returns structured article data including headlines, descriptions, images, and category classifications.

The News API publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including All News API, Articles API, Headlines API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Articles, Headlines, News, Media, and Search.

The The News API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

The News API’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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Articles Headlines News Media Search International

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Composite quality — 35.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

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

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Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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

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Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

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APIs 6

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

The News API All News API

Full historical and live article database search.

The News API Articles API

Retrieve specific articles by UUID.

The News API Headlines API

Latest headlines organized by category.

The News API Similar News API

Articles similar to a given article.

The News API Sources API

Available news sources and their metadata.

The News API Top Stories API

Top stories filtered by keyword, category, and date.

Open Collections 7

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

The News All News API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News All News Articles API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News All News Headlines API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News All News Similar News API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News All News Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News All News Top Stories API

OPEN COLLECTION

The News API

OPEN COLLECTION

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The News API pricing

Not yet checked against The News API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against The News API's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

The News Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

The News Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

The News API

SLA

FinOps 1

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

The News Api Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

The News Api Context

20 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

The News API — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

The News API API Rules

9 rules · 3 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

The News API Article

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

The News Api Article Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

The News Api Top Stories Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

The News Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

The News Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

The News Api Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRuleset

SpectralRuleset

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: the-news-api
name: The News API
description: The News API provides free access to search worldwide news and top stories from over 40,000 sources in 50 countries.
  Access live and historical news articles with advanced filtering by keyword, category, language, country, domain, and date.
  The API supports boolean search operators, pagination, and returns structured article data including headlines, descriptions,
  images, and category classifications.
kind: contract
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: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/the-news-api.png
tags:
- Articles
- Headlines
- News
- Media
- Search
- International
created: '2025-02-09'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-news-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-all-news-api
  name: The News API All News API
  description: Full historical and live article database search.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - All News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-all-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-articles-api
  name: The News API Articles API
  description: Retrieve specific articles by UUID.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Articles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-articles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-headlines-api
  name: The News API Headlines API
  description: Latest headlines organized by category.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-similar-news-api
  name: The News API Similar News API
  description: Articles similar to a given article.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Similar News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-similar-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-sources-api
  name: The News API Sources API
  description: Available news sources and their metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
- aid: the-news-api:the-news-api-top-stories-api
  name: The News API Top Stories API
  description: Top stories filtered by keyword, category, and date.
  humanURL: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Top Stories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-news-api-top-stories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation#auth
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/the-news-api-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/the-news-api-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/the-news-api-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/the-news-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-news-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/the-news-api-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/documentation
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/register
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.thenewsapi.com/pricing
- type: SpectralRuleset
  url: rules/the-news-api-rules.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/the-news-api-article-schema.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/the-news-api-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/the-news-api-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

The News API — frequently asked questions

Does The News API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from The News API, including The News API All News API, The News API Articles API and The News API Headlines API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the The News API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for The News API, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the The News API?

The News API uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as The News Api Authentication.

How much does the The News API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for The News API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the The News API ready for AI agents?

The News API has a Kin Score of 35.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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