The World News API gives you access to thousands of news sources in over 86 languages from over 210 countries in real time. News are semantically tagged allowing for semantic news search like never before.
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Get the front pages from over 6,000 publications in over 125 countries.
Title pages from newspapers give a good impression of what matters in a country at a certain point in time.
On the right you see examples of today's papers of the New York Post and The Australian.
See the full documentation of the newspaper front pages API.
World News API clusters thousands of news per country allowing you to retrieve the most relevant headlines from any country on any date.
Here's today's top 5 headlines from the United States
See the full documentation of the breaking news API.
The News API searches through thousands of news outlets world wide allowing you to get multiple views on the same issue. News is indexed in real time so you will get breaking news in the API as well as historic data.
News texts often mention locations such as cities, neighborhoods, or points of interest. We tag these locations which allows you to search for news that mention any location within a certain area.
Semantic search allows you to find entities without caring about the exact spelling or synonyms used. For example, finding news about the USA you can search for Location:USA and all news mentioning the USA will be returned, no matter if they talk about the "US", the "United States" or the "United States of America".
You can also search for pure text matches, phrases, or exclude words from your search.
We index news in over 86 languages from over 210 countries. With simple country and language filters you can limit your search to the exact country and language. For example, you could search for Spanish news that originate in the USA or French news from Canada.
Combining country filter with other parameters allows you to dig really deep into the news coverage, e.g. you could compare news about a polarizing topic from different countries.
See the full list of available countries.
Relevance of news is often short lived but new coverage is always in the context of what happened before. The API allows you to filter news by publish time to analyze content over time, for example, to detect shifts in opinions or amounts of news coverage of a certain topic over time.
News items (currently limited to English and German) are analyzed with AI trained sentiment classifiers assigning each news an overall value between -1 (negative) and +1 (positive).
The World News API supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) allowing you to use the API with AI models in your usual work flows. For example, you can add the World News API MCP server to your Claude Desktop or ChatGPT and allow it to access up to date news information and everything else the API has to offer.
Read more about how this works here.
source-countries=de entities=LOC:Italy source-country=us source-country=au language=es text=covid-19 OR corona text="Elon Musk" -tesla min-sentiment=0.5 earliest-publish-date=2022-04-01 max-sentiment=-0.5 news-sources=https://www.bbc.co.uk author=Phil Hutchinson First get the geo coordinates (latitude and longitude of London)
location=London, UK Now get the news with the coordinates 15km around London.
location-filter=51.509865,-0.118092,15 See the docs for full functionality.
Draw a circle on the map to search for news mentioning any location within that circle.
Search news by queries and filter them down.
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A News API is a programming interface that lets developers retrieve news articles, headlines, and related metadata from thousands of sources worldwide. Instead of scraping news websites manually, you make simple HTTP requests and receive structured JSON data with articles, authors, images, publish dates, and more. Read our documentation to get started.
World News API indexes thousands of news sources from over 210 countries in 86+ languages, adding 170,000+ new articles every day. You can browse available sources by country on our news sources page.
Yes. The free plan gives you 50 points per day at no cost — no credit card required. That's enough for testing and small hobby projects. When you're ready for production use, paid plans start at just $9/month. See all plans.
Semantic tagging (also called Named Entity Recognition) automatically extracts people, organizations, and locations mentioned in news articles. For example, an article about Tesla is tagged with ORG:Tesla and PER:Elon Musk. This lets you search semantically — searching LOC:USA finds articles mentioning "US", "United States", or "United States of America".
World News API supports 86+ languages and 210+ countries — making it one of the most internationally comprehensive news APIs available. Sentiment analysis is currently available for English and German, with more languages coming. See the full list of supported countries and language codes.
Yes. World News API supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), so you can plug real-time news data directly into AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents. Learn how to set up MCP.
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