Changelog

21th of October, 2024

Many more sources and much faster search:

  • The search performance for many queries was dramatically improved.
  • The parameter source-countries is deprecated and you should use source-country going forward. The benefits are much improved query performance.
  • Over 2,000 news sources were added and the number of new daily news went up by 100%.


20th of July, 2024

New endpoints, more news, better searchability and more:

  • New endpoint for front pages of newspapers! You can get the Cover Pages for over 6,000 news publications in over 125 countries around the world.
  • The news search endpoint offers a new categories parameter allowing to filter news by category. Possible categories are politics, sports, business, technology, entertainment, health, science, lifestyle, travel, culture, education, environment, other.
  • Over 100 news sources were added and the number of new daily news went up by 80%.


7th of June, 2024

A lot has happened, here's a roundup of things that have improved. Please make sure you read the deprecation notice below as well:

  • New endpoint for breaking news! You can get the Top News for any country and language.
  • The tutorial on how to get started using our Python SDK was updated and is even easier to follow now.
  • If you are more interested in using the Javascript SDK, there is now an easy to install NPM Package!
  • The news extraction endpoint now gives you multiple images (complete with caption and dimensions if possible), multiple videos (including summary, url, and duration if available).
  • Over 500 news sources were added in the last month.
  • News Extraction time up to 40 times faster now.

Deprecation Notice

Deprecation of fields until end of 2024: Since the extraction endpoint now returns a collection of images, videos, and authors, the fields "author", "image", and "video" are deprecated and will be removed by 31st of December 2024. Please do not use them in your code but make use of the more comprehensive collection versions of these fields.