GNews

About GNews

GNews API provides real-time and historical news search through a JSON API, indexing articles from over 80,000 sources across 41 languages and 71 countries, with historical coverage going back to 2020. It offers two endpoints: a search endpoint for querying the archive by keyword with filters for language, country, and date range, and a top-headlines endpoint for retrieving the latest stories by category and country. The database indexes more than 100 million articles, with content updated continuously.

The service is aimed at developers building news monitoring, aggregation, and analytics features into applications. Articles are indexed in GNews's own database rather than scraped on demand, and requests are made via GET calls that return structured JSON, with client examples provided in JavaScript, Python, PHP, and cURL.

A free tier is available for development and testing without a credit card, with subscription activation available when moving to production. The company states it is used by more than 150,000 developers.

Key features

• Search real-time and historical news articles across 80,000+ sources back to 2020
• Covers 41 languages and 71 countries
• Search endpoint for keyword queries with language, country, and date filters
• Top Headlines endpoint for latest breaking stories by category and country
• Articles indexed in-house for fast, ranked JSON responses rather than scraped on demand
• Free tier available for development with no credit card required

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