NewsAPI

⚠ Stale — 96d ago

News aggregation API that provides access to headlines and articles from over 150,000 news sources worldwide with search and filtering capabilities.

Evaluated Mar 01, 2026 (96d ago) vcurrent
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⚙ Agent Friendliness
76
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
N/A
Not evaluated
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
N/A
Not evaluated
Does it work consistently?
AF Security Reliability

Best When

You need aggregated news search across many sources with topic/keyword filtering for research or monitoring agents.

Avoid When

You need full article text, sub-minute freshness, or commercial redistribution of news content.

Use Cases

  • Monitoring news for specific topics or companies in research agents
  • Building news briefing and digest automation
  • Sentiment analysis and media monitoring workflows
  • Tracking breaking news for event-driven agent triggers
  • Competitive intelligence gathering from news sources

Not For

  • Full article content scraping (snippets only on most tiers)
  • Real-time news with sub-minute latency
  • Publishing or reproducing news content commercially

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-01.

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