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News API

News API provides JSON access to worldwide news headlines and articles from thousands of sources. · News API · APIs & integration

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Overview

News API offers a simple REST API for accessing news headlines and articles from thousands of sources, ideal for non-commercial projects and prototypes.

Good fit

Use when you need quick, programmatic access to global news headlines for non-commercial projects or prototypes.

  • prototyping
  • student projects
  • personal dashboards

Not a fit

Avoid if you need to run in staging or production (even internally), higher request volumes, or full article content.

  • commercial apps
  • high-volume production
  • premium news content
Quickstart · 5 steps
  1. Sign up for a free account at newsapi.org.
  2. Verify your email and log in to access your API key.
  3. Read the documentation to understand available endpoints and parameters.
  4. Make a test request using your API key to fetch headlines.
  5. Integrate the API into your application using HTTP requests.

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