Currents News API

Name: Currents News API API
Brand: Currents News API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentData EnrichmentData TransformationapiKey3 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Search and retrieve news articles from thousands of global sources, filterable by language, country, and category, for research, alerting, and content workflows.

Quickstart

Get started with Currents News API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search latest news articles by keyword"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Currents News API API.

Pull the latest news articles filtered by language, country, or category

Search the news archive by keyword across multiple languages and regions

List the set of available categories for use in filters and faceted search

Retrieve article metadata including title, description, source URL, and publication date for downstream summarisation

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Use for: Find all news articles about quantum computing in English, Retrieve the latest technology headlines from the US, Search for news mentioning a specific company in the last week, List the available news categories I can filter by

Not supported: Does not handle social media posts, RSS subscription management, or news content publishing — use for reading and searching news articles only.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for Currents News API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Currents News API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Currents News API delivers global news articles aggregated from thousands of sources, with filtering by language, country, and category. The compact REST surface covers latest-news retrieval, full-text search across the archive, and a metadata endpoint for available categories. Authentication is by API key in the Authorization header.

★ Brand and Topic Monitoring

Track mentions of a brand, product, or topic across global news sources by polling the /v1/search endpoint with keyword and language filters. Suitable for PR teams, competitive intelligence, and market researchers who need a daily or hourly digest of relevant coverage without scraping individual outlets.

Call GET /v1/search with keywords='Acme Corp' and language=en to retrieve all English-language articles mentioning the brand in the most recent window

Localised News Feed

Power a country- or language-specific news feed inside an app or dashboard by calling /v1/latest-news with the appropriate filters. Currents aggregates from thousands of publishers, so a single call returns a curated mix of headlines with title, summary, and source URL ready for display.

Call GET /v1/latest-news with country=DE and language=de to populate a German-language headline feed for a homepage widget

Category-Faceted News Search

Build a faceted search UI where users pick from valid categories before querying the news index. Pull the canonical category list from /v1/available/categories on app load, then issue /v1/search calls scoped to the chosen category for relevant results.

Call GET /v1/available/categories to populate a dropdown, then GET /v1/search with category=technology and keywords='AI regulation' when the user submits

AI Agent News Briefing via Jentic

An AI agent generating a morning briefing uses Jentic to discover and call Currents directly. The agent searches for 'latest news', loads the /v1/latest-news schema, supplies country and category filters, and summarises the returned articles for the user without bespoke integration glue.

Use Jentic to search 'latest news' and execute /v1/latest-news with category=business and language=en to compile a morning briefing

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for currents news api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/latest-news

Get latest news articles with filters

GET

/v1/search

Search news articles by keyword and filters

GET

/v1/available/categories

List supported news categories

GET

/v1/latest-news

Get latest news articles with filters

GET

/v1/search

Search news articles by keyword and filters

GET

/v1/available/categories

List supported news categories

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Currents API keys are held in the encrypted Jentic vault and injected into the Authorization header at call time. The agent never sees or stores the raw key.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g. 'latest news' or 'search news articles') and Jentic returns the matching Currents operation with its filter parameter schema.

Time to first call

Direct Currents integration: 1-2 hours for auth, parameter handling, and pagination. Through Jentic: under 10 minutes — search, load, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

NewsAPI

Larger news aggregator with sources, headlines, and everything endpoints

Choose NewsAPI if you need broader source-level filtering or a longer historical window than Currents provides.

Alternative

GNews

Google News-style aggregator with similar search and headline endpoints

Choose GNews when you want results aligned with Google News surfacing rather than Currents' aggregator.

Alternative

TheNewsAPI

News aggregator with similar headlines, search, and metadata endpoints

Choose TheNewsAPI for a comparable feature set with a different free-tier ceiling.

FAQs

Specific to using Currents News API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Currents News API?

Currents does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Currents News API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the Currents News API use?

The API uses an API key passed in the Authorization header on every request. Through Jentic the key is stored in the encrypted vault and injected at execution time so the raw token is never exposed to the agent.

Can I filter news by country and language with the Currents News API?

Yes. Both /v1/latest-news and /v1/search accept country and language query parameters. Use ISO codes (e.g. country=US, language=en) to scope results.

What are the rate limits for the Currents News API?

Rate limits are governed by the Currents subscription tier and are not encoded in the spec. Free plans typically permit a few hundred requests per day; paid plans raise the limit.

How do I search for news mentioning a specific topic through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, search for 'search news articles', load the /v1/search operation, and execute it with keywords, language, and an optional category filter. Jentic returns the matching articles with title, description, and source URL.

How do I list the available news categories?

Call GET /v1/available/categories. The response is a JSON list of category strings that you can use as the category filter on /v1/latest-news and /v1/search.

Currents News API

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Capabilities

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why though Jentic?

Related APIs

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