Free News API

About Free News API

FreeNewsApi is a REST API for searching and retrieving global news articles. It offers 5,000 free requests per day with a 2 requests/second rate limit, with no paid tiers. The API supports filtering by country, language, category, publisher, author, and date range, and allows text search across article titles, subtitles, and body content.

The API is built around two main endpoints: /v1/news for lightweight article listing with search, filtering, sorting, and pagination, and /v1/details for retrieving full article content and metadata (including publisher, topics, languages, and original article URL) by UUID. Additional endpoints support publisher lookup, author search, language discovery by country, and topic listing. The dataset covers 71 countries and 88 languages, with an average of 122,479 articles per day over the last 7 days, drawn from 138,341 publishers and 626,544 authors.

FreeNewsApi is intended for applications that need on-demand article search and retrieval rather than continuous data delivery. For real-time, event-driven use cases requiring a persistent stream of structured news data, the page points to a separate related product called SocketNews.

Key features

• Search global news articles via REST API with country, language, category and date filters
• 5,000 free requests per day with a 2 requests/second rate limit
• Full-text search across article title, subtitle and body
• Retrieve full article details including body text and original URL by UUID
• Publisher and author lookup endpoints for search and autocomplete
• Coverage across 71 countries and 88 languages from 138,341+ publishers

Frequently asked questions