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World News API

The World News API gives you access to thousands of news sources in over 90 languages from over 228 countries. News are semantically tagged allowing for semantic news search like never before.

World News API publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Geo API, News API, and Sources API.

World News API’s developer surface includes authentication and 3 more developer resources.

📡 Source on GitHub
23.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
3 APIs

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 23.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 12.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 20
Access Clarity 3.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 4.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 3

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

World News API Geo API

The Geo API from World News API — 1 operation(s) for geo.

World News API News API

The News API from World News API — 6 operation(s) for news.

World News API Sources API

The Sources API from World News API — 3 operation(s) for sources.

Open Collections 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Geo API

OPEN COLLECTION

World Geo News API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Geo Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

World News Api Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

World News Api Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

World News Api Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

World News Api Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

World News Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

World News Api Agentic Access

10 operations · 1 acting

10 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LlmsText
LlmsText

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: world-news-api
name: World News API
description: The World News API gives you access to thousands of news sources in over 90 languages from over 228 countries.
  News are semantically tagged allowing for semantic news search like never before.
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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/world-news-api.png
tags: []
created: '2025-02-09'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/world-news-api/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/world-news-api-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/world-news-api-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/world-news-api-authentication.yml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/llms.txt
apis:
- aid: world-news-api:world-news-api-geo-api
  name: World News API Geo API
  description: The Geo API from World News API — 1 operation(s) for geo.
  humanURL: ' https://worldnewsapi.com/'
  tags:
  - Geo
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/world-news-api-geo-api-openapi.yml
- aid: world-news-api:world-news-api-news-api
  name: World News API News API
  description: The News API from World News API — 6 operation(s) for news.
  humanURL: ' https://worldnewsapi.com/'
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/world-news-api-news-api-openapi.yml
- aid: world-news-api:world-news-api-sources-api
  name: World News API Sources API
  description: The Sources API from World News API — 3 operation(s) for sources.
  humanURL: ' https://worldnewsapi.com/'
  tags:
  - Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/world-news-api-sources-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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