World News API

World News API is a real-time and historical news data API covering thousands of sources across 210+ countries and 86+ languages. It provides full-text and semantic news search, geo-targeted local news search (a radius filter around a latitude/longitude point), article content and link extraction from arbitrary URLs, country-level top news clustering, newspaper front-page images, and news-source discovery. Local news search is a first-class feature - resolve a place name to coordinates with the Geo Coordinates endpoint, then pass those coordinates to Search News via the location-filter parameter to find news published or mentioned near that place. Requests are authenticated with an API key (api-key query parameter or x-api-key header) and metered in points against a daily plan allowance, with X-API-Quota-* headers returning cost and remaining budget on every response. The provider publishes its own OpenAPI 3 document, generated client libraries for two dozen languages, and a first-party local-stdio MCP server exposing eight news tools to AI agents.

World News API publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: News API. Tagged areas include News, Local News, News Search, Media Monitoring, and Geo Search.

World News API’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, developer console, support, and 39 more developer resources.

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62.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

News Local News News Search Media Monitoring Geo Search News Data Sentiment Analysis Content ExtractionFront PagesMCP RSS Semantic Search

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 62.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.9 / 17

Access Clarity 14.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 8.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 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 1

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

World News API News API

The News API from World News API — 9 operation(s) for news.

Open Collections 9

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News Front Pages API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News Geo Coordinates API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News News Sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News Retrieve News API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News Search News API

OPEN COLLECTION

World News Extract News Top News API

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World News API

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

World News API MCP Server (local stdio)

World News API publishes a first-party MCP server that exposes eight news tools over stdio. It is a locally installed npm package - there is no hosted remote MCP endpoint - so a...

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Worldnewsapi Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Worldnewsapi Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Worldnewsapi Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Worldnewsapi Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Worldnewsapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Worldnewsapi Agentic Access

17 operations

17 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

Console

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

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Postman

SourceCode

SourceCode

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Support

RateLimits

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: worldnewsapi
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/worldnewsapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: World News API
kind: company
description: World News API is a real-time and historical news data API covering thousands of sources across 210+ countries
  and 86+ languages. It provides full-text and semantic news search, geo-targeted local news search (a radius filter around
  a latitude/longitude point), article content and link extraction from arbitrary URLs, country-level top news clustering,
  newspaper front-page images, and news-source discovery. Local news search is a first-class feature - resolve a place name
  to coordinates with the Geo Coordinates endpoint, then pass those coordinates to Search News via the location-filter parameter
  to find news published or mentioned near that place. Requests are authenticated with an API key (api-key query parameter
  or x-api-key header) and metered in points against a daily plan allowance, with X-API-Quota-* headers returning cost and
  remaining budget on every response. The provider publishes its own OpenAPI 3 document, generated client libraries for two
  dozen languages, and a first-party local-stdio MCP server exposing eight news tools to AI agents.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  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: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/worldnewsapi.png
tags:
- News
- Local News
- News Search
- Media Monitoring
- Geo Search
- News Data
- Sentiment Analysis
- Content Extraction
- Front Pages
- MCP
- RSS
- Semantic Search
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-news-api
  name: World News API News API
  description: The News API from World News API — 9 operation(s) for news.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/extract-news/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-news-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/llms.txt
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/ddsky/world-news-api-clients/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: OpenAPI
  name: World News API OpenAPI 3.0.0 (provider-published, v2.2.0)
  url: openapi/_original/worldnewsapi-openapi-original.json
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/worldnewsapi-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/worldnewsapi-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/worldnewsapi-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/worldnewsapi-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/worldnewsapi-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  name: World News API MCP Server (local stdio)
  url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/worldnewsapi-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/worldnewsapi-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/worldnewsapi-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/worldnewsapi-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.worldnewsapi.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/api-changelog/
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/worldnewsapi-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  name: World News API Changelog (artifact)
  url: changelog/worldnewsapi-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/worldnewsapi-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Search News API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-search-news-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Top News API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-top-news-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Extract News API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-extract-news-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Retrieve News API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Front Pages API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-front-pages-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - News Sources API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-news-sources-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist overlay - Geo Coordinates API
  url: overlays/worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api-overlay.yaml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ddsky
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-news-api
- type: Website
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/quick-start-tutorial/
- type: Console
  name: Newsroom - free browser-based API explorer
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/newsroom/
- type: Postman
  name: World News API public Postman collection
  url: https://www.postman.com/spoonacular-api/workspace/world-news-api/collection/7431899-9288f331-3732-4328-baad-1d1e53001875
- type: Support
  name: World News API Discord
  url: https://discord.gg/GrmNknKHYD
- type: Pricing
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/console/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  name: Terms and Privacy Policy (single combined page)
  url: https://worldnewsapi.com/terms/
- type: SourceCode
  name: World News API client libraries (all languages)
  url: https://github.com/ddsky/world-news-api-clients
- type: SourceCode
  name: World News API MCP server
  url: https://github.com/ddsky/world-news-api-mcp
- type: Plans
  url: plans/worldnewsapi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/worldnewsapi-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/worldnewsapi-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1

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