# World News API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/worldnewsapi/  
**Website:** https://worldnewsapi.com  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 69.8 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+31.0 from 38.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 59.0 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 76.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 82.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 53.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **World News API Extract News API** — Extract article content and links from arbitrary news URLs.
- **World News API Front Pages API** — Retrieve newspaper front-page images by country and date.
- **World News API Geo Coordinates API** — Resolve a place name to latitude/longitude for local news search.
- **World News API News Sources API** — Discover and inspect available news sources.
- **World News API Retrieve News API** — Retrieve full article records by id.
- **World News API Search News API** — Full-text, semantic, and geo/local news search.
- **World News API Top News API** — Country-level top news clustered by coverage.

## MCP servers (1)

- **worldnewsapi-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Worldnewsapi Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Worldnewsapi Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Worldnewsapi Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Worldnewsapi Plans Pricing**

## Tags

News, Local News, News Search, Media Monitoring, Geo Search, News Data, Sentiment Analysis, Content Extraction, Front Pages, MCP, RSS, Semantic Search

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/worldnewsapi/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.