News API

Name: News API API
Brand: News API
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For Agents

Search and retrieve news articles from 80,000+ worldwide sources. Returns article metadata, source attribution, and publication timestamps for AI-assisted research and monitoring.

Quickstart

Get started with 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 news articles by keyword"

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

Capabilities

What an agent can do with News API API.

Search the live news index across 80,000+ sources by keyword, date range, language, and domain via GET /everything

Retrieve breaking-news top headlines filtered by country, category, or source through GET /top-headlines

Enumerate the supported news sources directory with country, language, and category metadata via GET /top-headlines/sources

Filter articles by ISO date range to track coverage of an event over time

GET STARTED

Start building with News API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

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

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for News API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. News API searches and retrieves live articles from over 80,000 news sources worldwide, returning article titles, descriptions, URLs, source attribution, and publication timestamps. The API exposes three operations — full article search across the open web via /everything, breaking-news headlines filtered by country or category via /top-headlines, and a directory of supported sources via /top-headlines/sources. Authentication uses an X-Api-Key header tied to a NewsAPI.org account.

Use Cases

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

★ Brand and Competitor Monitoring

Marketing and PR teams use News API to track mentions of their brand, products, and competitors across worldwide press. GET /everything accepts keyword queries, date ranges, language filters, and source filters so a daily cron job can pull the previous day's mentions, deduplicate by URL, and feed them into an internal review queue. The 80,000+ source coverage means coverage in regional press is captured alongside major outlets.

Fetch all articles from the last 24 hours mentioning 'Acme Corp' in English and return titles, sources, and URLs

Breaking-News Dashboards

Newsroom and trading-desk dashboards pull current top headlines via GET /top-headlines filtered by country and category. The endpoint returns the same set of headlines that NewsAPI's homepage surfaces, so a refresh every few minutes is sufficient for an editorial or market-watch view. Source attribution and publication timestamps are included on every article.

Get the top 20 business headlines for the United States and return them sorted by publication time

Event Timeline Research

Analysts researching how an event was covered over time call GET /everything with a keyword query and successive date windows. By stepping the from and to parameters week by week, an agent can build a coverage timeline showing volume, language, and outlet distribution. This is useful for due-diligence reports, academic research, and post-incident reviews.

For the search term 'merger announcement Q1 2026', return article counts grouped by week between January and March

Agent-Powered News Briefing

An AI agent uses News API through Jentic to generate morning briefings tailored to a user's interests. The agent queries GET /top-headlines for the user's country and categories, summarises the headlines, and formats a digest. Source attribution is preserved so the user can click through to the original article when something looks relevant.

Build a 5-bullet morning briefing covering the top US technology, business, and health headlines for the current day

Key Endpoints

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

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/everything

Search the live news index by keyword, date, language, and source

GET

/top-headlines

Get current breaking-news headlines filtered by country or category

GET

/top-headlines/sources

List supported news sources with country, language, and category metadata

GET

/everything

Search the live news index by keyword, date, language, and source

GET

/top-headlines

Get current breaking-news headlines filtered by country or category

GET

/top-headlines/sources

List supported news sources with country, language, and category metadata

Why though Jentic?

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

Credential isolation

News API X-Api-Key values are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault. Agents receive a scoped credential reference and Jentic injects the header at execution time, so the raw key stays out of the agent's context window.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic for intents like 'search news articles' or 'get top headlines for a country' and Jentic returns the matching News API operation with its query parameter schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint with valid filters.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 2-3 hours to register, wire the X-Api-Key header, handle pagination, and parse the article JSON. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

GNews API

GNews offers similar headline and article search across worldwide sources with a different free tier

Choose GNews when News API's free quota is exhausted or when GNews's source mix gives better coverage in a specific region. Choose News API for its breadth of 80,000+ sources.

Alternative

Mediastack API

Mediastack provides live and historical news from 7,500+ sources with country and language filters

Choose Mediastack when an agent needs JSON-only output and predictable per-call pricing. Choose News API when the broader source list and the curated /top-headlines endpoint matter more.

Complementary

Bing Search API

Bing's search API covers web and news together; News API focuses only on news with stronger filtering

Use Bing for combined web-plus-news research where the agent does not know in advance whether the answer lives in news. Use News API when the task is specifically news monitoring or article retrieval.

FAQs

Specific to using News API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for News API?

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

News API uses an API key passed in the X-Api-Key request header. Through Jentic the key sits in the encrypted vault and Jentic injects it on each call, so the raw key never enters the agent's prompt or response context.

Can I search news articles by date range with the News API?

Yes. GET /everything accepts from and to query parameters in ISO-8601 format, so an agent can pull articles for a specific window. The /top-headlines endpoint, in contrast, returns only current breaking news and does not accept a date range.

What is the difference between /everything and /top-headlines?

/everything searches the full historical news index and supports keyword queries, date ranges, language, source, and domain filters. /top-headlines returns the smaller, curated set of current breaking-news headlines and is filtered by country, category, or source. Use /everything for research and monitoring; use /top-headlines for live front-page feeds.

How do I build a news monitoring agent with News API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'search news articles by keyword', load the GET /everything schema, and execute with your query string and date range. Jentic returns the structured article list — title, source, URL, publication timestamp — that the agent can summarise or store.

Is News API free to use?

NewsAPI.org offers a free developer tier intended for non-commercial and prototype use, with paid plans for production usage and historical search depth. The API surface is identical across plans; what changes is request volume, the look-back window, and commercial-use rights.