Free News & Media APIs — ranked by value

Headlines, articles, feeds

Scores rate free-tier value on a 1–10 scale. How scores work →

NewsAPI.org News & Media API key Simple REST API returning JSON search results for current and historic articles from 150,000+ worldwide news sources and blogs. 100 req/day
GNews API News & Media API key Search and top-headlines news API aggregating articles from thousands of sources with language and country filtering. 100 req/day
The Guardian Open Platform News & Media API key Free Content API giving access to over a million Guardian articles, tags, and sections dating back to 1999. 500 req/day
The New York Times APIs News & Media API key Family of free APIs for NYT article search, top stories, most popular, books bestsellers, and an archive going back to 1851. 500 req/day
Currents API News & Media API key Real-time news API delivering latest and historical articles across 18+ languages with topic and category filtering. 600 req/day
Mediastack News & Media API key Lightweight JSON news API delivering live and historical news from 7,500+ sources in 50+ countries and 13 languages. 100 req/mo
NewsData.io News & Media API key Real-time and 10+ year archive news API from 90,000+ sources with sentiment, categories, and multi-language support. 200/day
Hacker News (Algolia Search API) News & Media No auth Free, no-auth search API over all Hacker News stories and comments, with full-text and date-based queries. 10k req/hr
Hacker News Official API News & Media No auth Firebase-backed official API for live Hacker News items, top/new/best stories, users, and comment trees with no authentication. Fair use
RSS to JSON (rss2json) News & Media API key Converts any RSS or Atom feed into clean JSON over a simple HTTP endpoint, ideal for ingesting publisher feeds. 10k req/day
NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry) News & Media API key News intelligence API indexing 150,000+ publishers in 60+ languages with entity recognition, event clustering, sentiment, and an archive to 2014. Free tier
TheNewsAPI News & Media API key Fast JSON REST API for live, top, and all news data with similar-article matching and source filtering. 100 req/day
NewsCatcher API News & Media API key Recall-first news and web search API for AI agents and enterprise teams with a 2B+ page index and clean article extraction. Free trial
Webz.io News API Lite News & Media API key Access to Webz.io's large global news repository, with a free News API Lite tier returning structured articles and metadata. 1k req/mo
World News API News & Media API key Search news in any language with entity extraction, sentiment, geo-coordinates, and full-text article retrieval. 50/day
Marketaux News & Media API key Free finance and stock-market news API in JSON with entity/ticker tagging and sentiment across 80+ markets and 5,000+ sources. 100 req/day
finlight News & Media API key Real-time financial news API with AI-driven sentiment analysis, an advanced query builder, and full-text article content. 10k req/mo
GDELT Project API News & Media No auth Free, no-auth API monitoring global news in 100+ languages with full-text search, tone, and geographic event data. Fair use
Spaceflight News API News & Media No auth Free, no-auth API aggregating spaceflight news articles, blogs, and reports from across the space industry. Fair use
Bing News Search API News & Media API key Microsoft Azure-hosted API returning trending and topical news articles, categories, and headlines from across the web. 1/mo
Wikipedia / Wikimedia REST API News & Media No auth Free, no-auth REST API for fetching article content, summaries, page views, and on-this-day events from Wikipedia. 200 req/sec
Wikipedia Current Events / Wikinews News & Media No auth MediaWiki Action API exposing free-license Wikinews articles and Wikipedia current-events content with no authentication. Fair use
NewsAPI.com (apilayer) News & Media API key Apilayer-hosted news articles API returning recent and historical headlines with keyword and source filtering. 100 req/mo
Perigon API News & Media API key Real-time news intelligence API with deduplication, entity and topic tagging, sentiment, and journalist/source metadata. 500 req/mo
ScrapingBee News Results API News & Media API key Scrapes Google News SERPs with JS rendering, geotargeting, and AI-powered field extraction for fresh ranked results. Trial credit
SerpApi Google News API News & Media API key Structured JSON results scraped from Google News, including stories, topics, and publisher metadata by query and locale. 100 req/mo
Associated Press Content API News & Media API key AP's official API for searching and downloading newswire stories, images, and breaking-news content and metadata. Paid / API key
New York Times → MediaStack alternative: Aylien / News API (Quantexa) News & Media API key NLP-enriched news API providing entities, sentiment, clustering, and trends over a global indexed news corpus. 14-day trial
DEV.to (Forem) API News & Media API key Public API serving DEV.to and Forem community articles, tags, comments, and user feeds for developer news content. 3 req/sec
The News API (currentsapi-style) — Bing alternative: Yle / public broadcaster RSS News & Media API key NPR developer APIs for stories, station finding, and transcripts spanning decades of public-radio news content. Fair use
Feedbin / Feedly Cloud API News & Media OAuth RSS aggregation and discovery API exposing feed content, streams, and topic search across millions of indexed sources. OAuth raises cap
Financial Times Developer API News & Media API key FT's developer APIs for integrating headlines, content, and concept/data-mining endpoints (subscription-backed). Paid / API key