Free News API

About Free News API

Free News API is a REST API for searching and retrieving global news articles. It offers a free tier with 5,000 requests per day and a rate limit of 2 requests per second, with no paid tiers. The API covers 71 countries and 88 languages, drawing from a dataset of over 158,000 publishers and 661,000 authors, with an average of roughly 122,000 articles ingested per day over the most recent seven-day period measured.

The API exposes endpoints for article listing and search (/v1/news), full article details by UUID including body text and original URL (/v1/details), and lookup endpoints for publishers (/v1/publishers), authors (/v1/authors), languages (/v1/languages), and topics (/v1/topics). Results can be filtered by country, language, category, publisher, author, and publication date range, and text search can target article titles, subtitles, or body content.

It is built for applications that need on-demand article search and retrieval rather than continuous data streaming. The provider also operates a separate product, SocketNews, for realtime structured news delivery via persistent socket connections, positioned as the alternative for event-driven monitoring and alerting workflows.

Key features

• Search global news articles with country, language, category and publisher filters
• 5,000 free requests per day at a 2 requests/second rate limit
• Retrieve full article details including body text by UUID
• Search across title, subtitle and body text
• Coverage spans 71 countries and 88 languages with 158,912 publishers
• Publisher and author lookup endpoints for search and autocomplete

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