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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 contract indexed on the APIs.io network: News API. Tagged areas include News, Local News, News Search, Media Monitoring, and Geo Search.

The World News API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

World News API’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, changelog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, developer console, and 41 more developer resources.

64.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills
NewsLocal NewsNews SearchMedia MonitoringGeo SearchNews DataSentiment AnalysisContent ExtractionFront PagesMCPRSSSemantic Search

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Data & Reference Information Services
AE-230
News
GET /search-news GET /extract-news GET /search-news-sources

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  • Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
News and Media long-tail 12.1 (thin) - -

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

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.

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)
RSS
tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified
measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 8

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

World News API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

World News API pricing

Prices published by World News API, read 2026-10-28 from worldnewsapi.com/pricing/.

PlanPrice
Free $0/mo
Includes: 50 points/day
Reporter $39/mo
Includes: 500 points/day
Journalist $379/mo
Includes: 5,000 points/day
Editor $1,779/mo
Includes: 50,000 points/day

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

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Billed by: points/day · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Worldnewsapi Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

FinOps 1

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

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

World News API API Rules

62 rules · 59 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 7

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Worldnewsapi Extract News Api Overlay

6 actions · update · worldnewsapi-extract-news-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi Front Pages Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-front-pages-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi Geo Coordinates Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi News Sources Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-news-sources-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi Retrieve News Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi Search News Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-search-news-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Worldnewsapi Top News Api Overlay

5 actions · update · worldnewsapi-top-news-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

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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

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 7

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 8

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '2026-10-06'
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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/worldnewsapi-capability-edges.yml
  name: World News API Business Capability Map
- url: https://worldnewsapi.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- 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

World News API — frequently asked questions

Does World News API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from World News API, including World News API News API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the World News API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for World News API, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the World News API?

World News API uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Worldnewsapi Authentication.

How much does the World News API cost?

World News API publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0/mo as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for World News API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does World News API have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for World News API: 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 human installs and run

Is the World News API ready for AI agents?

World News API has a Kin Score of 64.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 36.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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