NewsAPI
News aggregation API that provides access to headlines and articles from over 150,000 news sources worldwide with search and filtering capabilities.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
Single API key. Developer plan: 100 requests/day. Free plan: only development use allowed. News content copyright — agent use must comply with licensing terms.
⚡ 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
Interface
Authentication
API key as header (X-Api-Key) or query parameter. Simple single-key access.
Pricing
Free tier is very restrictive. Paid tiers are expensive for what you get. The pricing jump from free to paid is steep.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Free tier prohibits commercial use - most production agents technically violate ToS
- ⚠ Articles are snippets, not full text - agents needing full content must scrape source URLs
- ⚠ Free tier limited to articles published within last 30 days
- ⚠ Daily rate limits (not per-minute) mean burst usage can exhaust daily quota quickly
- ⚠ Source availability varies - not all sources are indexed; results can have gaps
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.