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 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Extract News API, Front Pages API, Geo Coordinates API, and 5 more. 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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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-extract-news-api
  name: World News API Extract News API
  description: Extract article content and links from arbitrary news URLs.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/extract-news/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Extract News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-extract-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-extract-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/extract-news/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/extract-news/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/extract-news-links/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-extract-news-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-extract-news-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-front-pages-api
  name: World News API Front Pages API
  description: Retrieve newspaper front-page images by country and date.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/newspaper-front-pages/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Front Pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-front-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-front-pages-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/newspaper-front-pages/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/newspaper-front-pages/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-front-pages-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-front-pages-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api
  name: World News API Geo Coordinates API
  description: Resolve a place name to latitude/longitude for local news search.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/get-geo-coordinates/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Geo Coordinates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/get-geo-coordinates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/get-geo-coordinates/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-geo-coordinates-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-news-sources-api
  name: World News API News Sources API
  description: Discover and inspect available news sources.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news-sources/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - News Sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-news-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-news-sources-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news-sources/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news-sources/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-news-sources-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-news-sources-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api
  name: World News API Retrieve News API
  description: Retrieve full article records by id.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/retrieve-news/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Retrieve News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/retrieve-news/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/retrieve-news/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-retrieve-news-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-search-news-api
  name: World News API Search News API
  description: Full-text, semantic, and geo/local news search.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Search News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-search-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-search-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/search-news/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-search-news-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-search-news-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: worldnewsapi:worldnewsapi-top-news-api
  name: World News API Top News API
  description: Country-level top news clustered by coverage.
  humanURL: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/top-news/
  baseURL: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
  tags:
  - Top News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/worldnewsapi-top-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/worldnewsapi-top-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/top-news/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/top-news/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-top-news-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/worldnewsapi-top-news-api.opencollection.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/worldnewsapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- 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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