Top 10 Best News APIs (Updated for 2023)

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FAQs

A news API often refers to APIs that allow developers to request trending news, news stories, and other information from online news media publications. You can browse Rapid’s complete list of news APIs, or check them out on Wikipedia.

The most popular API on the Rapid API Hub is the TokApi - mobile version. You can see Rapid’s 50 most popular APIs here or check out trending APIs in this collection.

There are four main types of APIs:

• Open APIs
• Partner APIs
• Internal APIs
• Composite APIs

What is the best news API?

After reviewing over 47 news APIs, we found these 10 APIs to be the very best and worth mentioning:

• Newscatcher API
• Bing News Search API
• Google News API
• NewsomaticAPI
• NewsX API
• US Congress Top News API
• News Article Data Extract and Summarization API
• News API
• News Sentiment API
• MrNewsAPI

Our Top 10 News APIs for 2023

Our Top Picks for Best News APIs

Some of these news APIs offer free plans while others charge a monthly fee. Clicking “Connect to API” in the API description will take you to the API hub page, where you can find the API pricing.

1. Newscatcher

The Newscatcher API helps developers find news articles by any topic, country, language, website, or keyword. Features include:

• Multi-language search
• Hand-picked sources
• Fast response time
• Date added
• Extensive documentation

Popularity Score: 9.8/10

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Best Forsocial news

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2. Bing News Search

The Bing News Search API allows developers to send a search query to Bing and get back a list of news that are relevant to the search query.

Endpoints:

• News Category
• News Search
• News Trending

Popularity Score: 9.8/10

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Best For news & trending topics

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3. Google News

The Google News API is an unofficial Google news API that provides:

• Topic Headlines
• Top Headlines
• Search
• Search by Source
• and Geographic Headlines

Related Tutorial: Using the Google News API with Python

Popularity Score: 9.4/10

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Best For Google news

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4. NewsomaticAPI

NewsomaticAPI helps developers locate articles and breaking news headlines from news sources and blogs across the web. NewsomaticAPI is a simple, easy-to-use REST API that returns JSON format search results for the latest news and historic news articles published by over 1,300 worldwide sources.

Endpoints:

• Top Worldwide News
• Sources List
• All Worldwide News

Popularity Score: 9.2/10

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Best For worldwide news

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5. NewsX

The NewsX API allows developers to search and get the latest news stories with AI powered text summaries.

Endpoints:

• /search/
• /search

Popularity Score: 8.9/10

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Best For news summaries

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6. US Congress Top News

The US Congress Top News API allows developers to retrieve the latest news about the United States Congress from around the world. The API currently retrieves information from the following sources:

• USA Today
• AP News
• ProPublica
• Politico
• The New York Times

Popularity Score: 8/10

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Best For US Congress news

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7. News Article Data Extract and Summarization

The News Article Data Extract and Summarization API extracts data from online news & articles. Developers can automatically get full metadata with content, images, authors, summary, category, keywords, topics, and more. The API uses advanced AI technology to retrieve clean, structured data without the need for manual rules or site-specific training.

The API has one endpoint, Summary.

Popularity Score: 6.7/10

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Best For news metadata

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8. News API

The News API is a Google News and Bing News alternative. The API allows developers to search news from over 2,500+ Publishers around the world.

Endpoints:

• Top Headlines
• Search

Popularity Score: 9.7/10

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Best For Google and Bing news

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9. News Sentiment

The News Sentiment API helps developers bring news sentiment analysis or news insight services to production scale with only a penny cost. The API can run with any programming language and doesn’t need a high computational process.

The API has one endpoints, URL.

Popularity Score: 8.3/10

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Best For news sentiment analysis

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10. MrNewsAPI

MrNewsAPI is an all-in-one API for news. If you are looking for global general news, then this API is good for you.

Endpoints:

• Entertainment news
• Tech news
• Crypto news
• India news
• Global News

Popularity Score: N/A /10

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Best For global news stories

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This post highlights just a few of the news APIs available on the Rapid API Hub. Visit Rapid's API Marketplace to find APIs that provide news from around the world for a wide range of categories and topics.

Did we miss any news APIs that you use? Comment below!

Relevant API Collections

• Trending News APIs
• News Article Extraction APIs

Summary: Best News APIs for Developers

Complete List of the Best News Media & Publication APIs

• News - Connexun News APIs serve historical and trending news content from trusted sources worldwide. Our crawler scrapes content published by over 20.000 highly-trusted online sources in different languages, thus enabling our users to be the first to pick up on emerging stories and most relevant information. Ensure a real-time view into the world of football with our solution, or collect historical structured data on the most relevant past stories and events. Test our endpoints for free and do not hesitate to reach us out for further information.
• Google News - Unofficial Google News API
• AccuWeather - AccuWeather provides hourly and Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™.
• adverifai - Artificial Intelligence for fake news detection and automated fact checking
• AdVerifai-es - AdVerifai - automatically get news quality score and insights with FakeRank
• Anilist - Discover and share Anime and Manga.
• Article Data Extraction and Text Mining - Lexper provides tools for content extraction and text analysis and classification.
• Bing News Search - The News Search API lets you send a search query to Bing and get back a list of relevant news articles.
• Blogger - Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.
• Breaking News - MyAllies News delivers real-time news and stock pricing from across the globe and information on the latest breaking business and financial news.
• FacebookLiveAPI - Stream, search and manage live video on Facebook.
• FAROO Web Search - Free Search API with 1 million free queries per month. Web Search More than 2 billion pages indexed. English, German and Chinese results. Sorted by relevancy. News Search News articles from newspapers, magazines and blogs. Sorted by publishing date, with author and article image. Trending News Trending news, grouped by topic. Topics sorted by buzz (number of sources reporting on same topic). One main article per topic + related links. Trending Topics Trending news, grouped by topic. Topics sorted by buzz (number of sources reporting on same topic). All full articles per topic, sorted by publishing time. Suggestions Suggestions with auto completes for query substrings and corrections for misspelled terms.
• FinancialTimes - Get financial news, blog posts and articles.
• Guardian - Query and download data from this publication's database.
• Hacker News - This is the first iteration of YCombinator's Hacker News API which provides read only access to Hacker News data near real-time, including stories, comments, user data, top stories, etc.
• HN Search - This API is built on top of Algolia Search's API. It enables developers to access HN (Hacker News) data programmatically using a REST API. This documentation describes how to request data from the API and how to interpret the response.
• HuffingtonPostPollster - Polls, charts, forecasts and data about upcoming elections
• Marvel - Place to connect with other fans and get news about comics
• National Park Service - This API is designed to provide authoritative National Park Service (NPS) data and content about parks and their facilities, events, news, alerts, and more.
• News Search - Nuzzel tracks the most comprehensive set of important news sources, and integrates social signals from thousands of top business influencers. Over 100,000 sources are scanned each day.
• Telegraph - Telegra.ph is a minimalist publishing tool.
• Vectorspace AI Summarizer - The Vectorspace AI API returns JSON data with a summary of cryptocurrency news, whitepapers, websites or any other context with optional context control, powered by AI.
• vegan news - Returns a list of the latest vegan related news articles, updated every 4 hours
• Web Search - Web Search API. News API. Image API. Billions of webpages, images and news with a single API call.
• Anime News Network Encyclopedia - Get data from the Anime News Network Encyclopedia in XML format.
• Trade Articles - The Trade News & Articles API provides in-depth news and articles written by Trade Specialists working in the Federal government. The authors include staff from ITA as well as other Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) agencies.
• Many2One - Search within a huge quantity of documents (news, blog posts, websites, rss feeds… downloaded from thousands of web sources) based on publishing date, keywords and other parameters
• TrustServista News Analytics - Unique News Search and Analytics capabilities: search in over 50,000 daily English-language news posts, content quality scoring and clickbait detection, URL links and semantic graph extraction, similar content detection, publisher statistics, geolocation tagging and more. TrustServista is a software solution provided by Zetta Cloud (www.zettacloud.ro). Read more: www.trustservista.com
• Trendn - Trendn aggregates the most viral and socially-shared content on the web. Ranking is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be. Examples of engagement include sharing with your friends, bookmarking an article, leaving a comment on a blog, or clicking a link to read a news item.
• ScrapeBoss - Extract raw content, meta data, opengraph data plus much more from any blog or news article using AI.
• 90 Mins - Football News
• Cryptocurrency Real Time News - Zloadr Professional API endpoints for real-time cryptocurrency & exchange & due diligence news. This category currently includes 8 endpoints:
• Daneel - Newscuration and Market sentiment on the Blockchain market
• Ghost - Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication.
• Monitr Financial Data - The Monitr Financial REST API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Monitr with other applications. Developers can capture and pull analytics on market sentiment, economic data, financial news, and social media. Public documentation is not available; developers can request an API key here: https://www.monitr.com/developers
• Mujmal - Mujmal summarizes Arabic news articles by selecting the most important sentences from the article, it uses data mining techniques specific to the arabic language to achieve this. When using Mujmal we can select how large the summary we are interested in to be.
• Newsalyze - News Analysis - Newsalyze provides a set of news analysis functionalities. These are currently: (1) information extraction from URLs or raw HTML data (title, lead paragraph, main text content, main image, authors, publish date, language, and others)
• newscuria - Submit a url of a news article. Get back stuff. Potentially useful stuff.
• Newslookup.com Crawler Feeds - Newslookup.com is a news search engine, news aggregator, and news services provider. We provide subscription based API access to our crawler and search index.
• Newspaper - Newspaper is an API for Instapaper style article extracting and based off the python library newspaper, https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper.
• Online Station - Game news data API *Thai language only in this version
• Samepoint Monitor - The Samepoint Trend API Data-set represent a collection of current trends in news and media. It does not include everything in social media however it can be trained to find most content when put in monitoring mode.
• semanti.ca Web Article Data Extraction - semanti.ca extracts data from any Web article on any website (news, magazines, blogs) using Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning. No programming needed.
• socialanimal - Social Animal's powerful Content/News API provides a blazingly fast, simple API for popular articles with very flexible filters that let you get popular web content. Social Animal News API’s powerful query filters let you narrow down on the exact kind of content you need for your audience.
• Stock News - Get the latest financial stock news from the best news sources. Use our API to get relevant video content from companies in the stock market.
• Stream - Create and customize a social newsfeed/activity newsfeed.
• The South Asian Express News - Latest News from South Asia.

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