World News API · Rate Limits

Worldnewsapi Rate Limits

World News API enforces two overlapping controls - a daily point (credit) allowance and per-request rate limits (requests per second and maximum concurrent requests). Every endpoint consumes a number of points that count against the plan's daily allowance; exceeding the allowance blocks calls on the Free plan or bills per additional point on paid plans. Rate and concurrency limits scale up with plan tier - Free is 1 request/sec and 1 concurrent request; Reporter 2/sec and 5 concurrent; Journalist 10/sec and 10 concurrent; Editor 20/sec and 20 concurrent.

Worldnewsapi Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for World News API on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring points, requests, and connections.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for quotaExceeded, throttled, and unauthorized.

Tagged areas include News, News Search, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Points.

6 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 402
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Limits

Daily Points (Free) account
points
50 per day
After 50 points, no further calls are allowed until the next day.
Daily Points (Reporter) account
points
500 per day included, then $0.003 per additional point
Paid overage past the included daily allowance.
Daily Points (Journalist) account
points
5000 per day included, then $0.0025 per additional point
Paid overage past the included daily allowance.
Daily Points (Editor) account
points
50000 per day included, then $0.002 per additional point
Paid overage past the included daily allowance.
Requests per Second account
requests
1 (Free) / 2 (Reporter) / 10 (Journalist) / 20 (Editor)
Per-second request cap scales with plan tier.
Concurrent Requests account
connections
1 (Free) / 5 (Reporter) / 10 (Journalist) / 20 (Editor)
Maximum number of in-flight requests at once, scales with plan tier.

Policies

Point Metering
Each endpoint call consumes a plan-independent number of points based on the endpoint and parameters; points are the primary quota.
Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 (rate limited) and 402 (quota exceeded) responses with exponential backoff and by staying within the plan's per-second and concurrency limits.
Quota Headers
Inspect X-API-Quota-Request, X-API-Quota-Used, and X-API-Quota-Left response headers to track remaining daily points.

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