World News

About World News

World News API provides programmatic access to news articles, headlines, and metadata from thousands of sources across over 210 countries and 86+ languages, adding more than 170,000 articles daily. It indexes content in real time and supports historic search, with results returned as structured JSON including authors, images, titles, descriptions, and publish dates. Articles are semantically tagged with extracted people, organizations, and locations, enabling entity-based search (e.g., searching for a location returns matches regardless of the exact name or phrasing used). The API also assigns sentiment scores (-1 to +1) to news items in English and German, allowing filtering by positive or negative coverage.

Additional features include a newspaper front-pages endpoint covering over 6,000 publications in 125+ countries, a top-news clustering endpoint for retrieving headlines by country and date, location-radius search using geographic coordinates, and filtering by source country, language, publish time frame, author, and news source. The API supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing integration with AI models such as Claude Desktop or ChatGPT. A free no-code web app called Newsroom is available for exploring API endpoints in a browser, including advanced search, front-page browsing, a 3D news globe, sentiment filters, and a quota dashboard.

The product is used by data teams and researchers, including those at Palantir, Northwestern University, and the University of Toronto, and is aimed at developers building applications that require news search, monitoring, or analysis. A free tier offers 50 points per day with no credit card required; paid plans start at $9/month.

Key features

• Search thousands of news sources across 86+ languages and 210+ countries in real time
• Semantic tagging with location, organization, and person extraction
• Sentiment analysis scoring news from -1 to +1
• Newspaper front pages from 6,000+ publications in 125+ countries
• Location-based search within a radius of any point on Earth
• MCP support for connecting the API to AI models like Claude Desktop or ChatGPT

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