Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Free News API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Free News API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Ffreenewsapi.io%2Ffreenewsapi" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Ffreenewsapi.io%2Ffreenewsapi" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Free News API.

List and search news articles across sources

Fetch the full details of a single article

Search publishers by name or attributes

Search authors across articles

List the languages available for a given country

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Free News API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Agent News Retrieval

An AI agent connected through Jentic can search for news articles on a topic, fetch the full details of the most relevant one, and identify the publisher behind it, without a developer wiring the Free News API by hand. The agent discovers each operation by intent and calls it with a stored key.

Search for articles about a topic, fetch the top article's details, and report its publisher

Topic and Source Discovery

Apps let users browse news by subject and source. The Free News API lists the available topics and searches publishers and authors, so a reader can filter articles by topic and follow specific sources.

List the available topics and search publishers that cover a chosen topic

Localized News Feeds

International apps serve news in the right language for each market. The Free News API lists the languages available for a country, so a feed can request articles in a language that fits the audience.

List the languages available for a country and search news articles in the chosen language

Key Endpoints

6 endpoints — the free news api serves news articles and their full details, and searches publishers and authors across sources.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/news

List news articles

GET

/details

Get article details

GET

/publishers

Search publishers

GET

/authors

Search authors

GET

/languages

List available languages for a country

GET

/topics

List available topics

GET

/news

List news articles

GET

/details

Get article details

GET

/publishers

Search publishers

GET

/authors

Search authors

GET

/languages

List available languages for a country

GET

/topics

List available topics

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring the Free News API by hand means managing its API key header, learning each query's parameters, and paging through results yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Free News API from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

The Free News API is read-only with six operations, so a rule can allow only the article and lookup reads your agent needs. You choose the operations the agent may call, and because none of them write, the agent can search news but change nothing.

Credential isolation

Your Free News API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'search news articles' or 'get article details', and Jentic returns the matching Free News API operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using Free News API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Free News API use?

The Free News API authenticates with an API key sent in the `x-api-key` request header, per its OpenAPI spec. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at call time, so it never reaches the agent's context.

Can I fetch the full details of an article with the Free News API?

Yes. After listing or searching articles, the details operation returns the full content and metadata for a single article so an agent can read or summarize it.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Free News API?

Yes. The Free News API is read-only, so write a rule that allows only the article-search and detail operations, letting the agent pull news without touching anything else. Every call it makes is logged.

Is there a Free News API MCP server?

You do not need an MCP server to give your agent the Free News API. Jentic connects it directly from the API Directory: import the Free News API, store your key once, and the agent calls its read operations by intent without loading another server's tool definitions into its context.

What are the rate limits for the Free News API?

The OpenAPI spec does not specify numeric rate limits for the Free News API. Check the Free News API documentation at https://freenewsapi.io for current plan limits.

How do I search news articles with the Free News API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for an intent like 'search news articles', and it returns the Free News API's article-search operation with its input schema so your agent can query by topic, language, or source. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.

Free News API

AI ReadinessFoundational (C-)51/100

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Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyData EnrichmentData TransformationapiKey6 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Search and list news articles, fetch the full details of an article, and look up publishers and authors. Discover the languages available by country and the available topics to filter queries.

Use for: Search for recent news articles about a topic, Get the full details of a specific article, Find publishers that cover a subject, Look up an author across news articles

Not supported: Does not publish articles, send newsletters, or run sentiment analysis. Use for searching news articles, publishers, authors, languages, and topics only.

The Free News API serves news articles and their full details, and searches publishers and authors across sources. It lists the languages available for a country and the available topics, so queries can be filtered by language and subject. Requests are authenticated with an API key sent in a request header.

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Show dimension breakdown

100

Foundational Compliance

Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.

Grade: A+Signals: 4

98%

Lint Results

Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.

100%

Resolution Completeness

Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.

100%

Specification Validity

Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).

100%

Structural Integrity

Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.

Grade: BSignals: 4

13%

Example Density

How richly the API is illustrated with examples.

100%

Example Validity

Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.

50%

Response Coverage

Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).

100%

Tooling Readiness

Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.

Grade: FSignals: 4

68%

Description Coverage

Coverage of descriptions across API elements.

Error Standardization

Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.

OperationId Quality

Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.

35%

Summary Coverage

Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.

Agent Usability

Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.

Grade: A+Signals: 1

94%

Complexity Comfort

Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.

Security

Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.

Grade: C-Signals: 1

50%

Authentication Strength

Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).

AI Discoverability

Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.

Grade: A-Signals: 1

75%

Descriptive Richness

Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.

Connect the Free News API to your agent

Capabilities

Start building with Free News API

Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

Related APIs

FAQs

Free News API

Jentic AI Readiness Score

Free News API

Foundational Compliance

Lint Results

Resolution Completeness

Specification Validity

Structural Integrity

Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility

Example Density

Example Validity

Response Coverage

Tooling Readiness

AI-Readiness & Agent Experience

Description Coverage

Error Standardization

OperationId Quality

Summary Coverage

Agent Usability

Complexity Comfort

Security

Authentication Strength

AI Discoverability

Descriptive Richness