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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 APIs 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 7 more developer resources.

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38.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
ArticlesHeadlinesNewsMediaSearchInternational

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 38.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Access Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 3.5 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 23/100 · 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
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
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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 8

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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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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

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 API 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

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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: 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

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