Mediastack API

Name: Mediastack API API
Brand: Mediastack API
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For Agents

Search live and historical news articles by keyword, country, language, category, and source so an agent can ground its answers in current journalism.

Quickstart

Get started with Mediastack 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 recent news articles about a topic"

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

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Mediastack API API.

Search news articles by free-text keyword across 7,500+ sources

Filter articles by ISO country code, language, and category such as business or technology

Page through historical news using date ranges and offset-limit pagination

List available news sources by language and country to discover what is searchable

GET STARTED

Start building with Mediastack API API

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Use for: Search for news about renewable energy in the last 24 hours, Find all articles about a company filed today in English, Retrieve the list of news sources available for the United Kingdom, Get the most recent business headlines from Germany

Not supported: Does not handle web crawling, social media posts, or full article-text licensing — use for structured news article search and source discovery only.

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

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Mediastack API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Mediastack is a real-time and historical news data API that aggregates live news articles and headlines from over 7,500 sources across 50+ countries in 13 languages. The API exposes two endpoints: /news for searching articles by keywords, dates, languages, categories, countries, and sources, and /sources for listing available publishers. Use it to enrich agent answers with current news, build news dashboards, or feed content models with topical text.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Mediastack API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Brand and Reputation Monitoring

Track every news mention of a brand, executive, or product across 7,500+ international sources without scraping individual outlets. Mediastack returns structured article objects with publication date, source, country, language, and a snippet, which makes it straightforward to dedupe coverage and roll up sentiment downstream. PR teams use this to flag emerging stories within minutes of publication.

Call /news with keywords=Acme Corp, languages=en, sort=published_desc, and date=today and return the article titles, sources, and URLs published in the last six hours.

AI Agent Grounding for Current Events

Give a research agent up-to-the-minute news context so its answers are not stuck at the model's training cutoff. The /news endpoint returns recent articles filtered by topic, language, and country, which the agent can summarise inline. This pattern lifts factuality on questions about ongoing events without exposing the agent to arbitrary web scraping.

Search Mediastack for keywords=climate summit and languages=en limited to the last 48 hours, then summarise the three most-cited stories with their source URLs.

Topical Content Curation

Feed a newsletter or internal briefing with curated articles by topic, country, and language without manually scanning each outlet. Mediastack's category filter (general, business, entertainment, health, science, sports, technology) and country filter let an agent assemble a tightly scoped reading list per audience segment. This compresses hours of editorial scanning into a single API call per audience.

Fetch business-category news for countries=us,gb in English published today, dedupe by URL, and return the top 10 by source authority for inclusion in the morning briefing.

Multilingual Market Intelligence

Search for industry signals in 13 languages so a market-intelligence agent does not miss non-English-language coverage of competitors and regulators. The /sources endpoint helps the agent confirm coverage in each market before searching, and /news returns articles tagged with language and country for downstream filtering. This is especially useful for regulated industries where regional press breaks news first.

Use /sources to list news sources for country=de language=de, then call /news with keywords=Bundeskartellamt and languages=de for the last seven days and return the unique sources covering it.

Key Endpoints

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

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/news

Search live and historical news articles

GET

/sources

List available news sources

GET

/news

Search live and historical news articles

GET

/sources

List available news sources

Why though Jentic?

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

Credential isolation

Your Mediastack access_key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected as the query parameter at execution time. Agents never see the raw key.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g. 'find recent news about a topic') and Jentic returns the matching Mediastack /news operation with its parameter schema.

Time to first call

Direct Mediastack integration: a few hours wiring the auth and pagination plus retry logic. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

NewsAPI

NewsAPI provides a similar global news search with comparable filters and a generous free tier.

Pick NewsAPI when you need a larger free quota for prototyping; pick Mediastack when you need broader source counts and stricter country filtering.

Alternative

GNews API

GNews offers Google News-derived article search with built-in deduplication.

Pick GNews when you want Google's clustering of duplicate stories; pick Mediastack for raw publisher feeds.

Alternative

Currents API

Currents API focuses on latest news with category and language tags.

Pick Currents for simple latest-news queries; pick Mediastack when you also need a sources directory and historical pagination.

Complementary

OpenAI API

Use OpenAI to summarise or classify the article text returned by Mediastack.

Use OpenAI alongside Mediastack when you need to roll up dozens of articles into a digest or extract structured fields from headlines.

FAQs

Specific to using Mediastack API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Mediastack API?

Mediastack does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Mediastack 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 Mediastack API use?

Mediastack uses an API key passed as the access_key query parameter. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted in the vault and injected at execution time, so the agent never sees the raw value.

Can I retrieve historical news articles with the Mediastack API?

Yes. The /news endpoint accepts a date filter that supports both single dates and ranges, allowing you to page back through historical coverage subject to the retention window of your Mediastack plan.

What are the rate limits for the Mediastack API?

Rate limits are tied to plan: the free tier allows up to 500 requests per month and the paid tiers raise that ceiling progressively. Plan also gates HTTPS access and historical depth, so check your dashboard before scaling agent calls.

How do I search news for a topic through Jentic?

Search Jentic for search news articles, load the schema for the /news operation, and execute with keywords, languages, and date parameters. Jentic returns the article list with title, source, URL, and published_at fields ready for the agent to summarise.

Which languages and countries does Mediastack cover?

Mediastack covers 13 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, sourced from publishers across more than 50 countries. Use /sources with the languages and countries filters to enumerate exactly which publishers are available before searching.