TheNews API

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Overview

TheNewsAPI is a news aggregation API that delivers headlines, top stories, and live news in JSON format from thousands of sources worldwide. It supports filtering by topic, language, country, and source, making it easy to build news feeds tailored to any audience. A free tier is available that lets you get started with minimal setup.

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Beginner Tip

Sign up at thenewsapi.com to receive a free API token and call the /v1/news/top endpoint to retrieve top stories immediately. Use the locale and language parameters to target specific regions or languages.

Available Data

article title and content

publication source

published date

article URL

image URL

Example Response

JSON Response

{
  "totalArticles": 100,
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Tech Industry Sees Record Growth",
      "source": {
        "name": "TechNews",
        "url": "https://technews.com"
      },
      "publishedAt": "2025-01-15T08:00:00Z",
      "description": "The technology sector reported unprecedented growth...",
      "image": "https://example.com/article-image.jpg",
      "url": "https://technews.com/article/123"
    }
  ]
}

Field Reference

data[].uuid Unique identifier for the article

data[].title Headline of the news article

data[].url URL to the original article

data[].published_at ISO 8601 date and time the article was published

data[].source Domain name of the news source that published the article

meta.found Total number of articles matching the query

Implementation Example

const url = "https://www.thenewsapi.com/";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);