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Free News API with 5,000 requests per day

Search and retrieve global news through a free API with a generous daily allowance, a 2 requests/second rate limit, country and language filters, categories, and full article details.

5,000/day free requests

2 req/sec rate limit

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Real API example

GET /v1/news?language=en&country=us&order_by=archive&in_title=trump

{
  "data": [
	{
		"uuid": "ee1cab5b-77fe-44f5-952f-3c16e0786b7a", "title": "Trump warns Tehran ‘more to follow’ after strike destroys Iran’s largest bridge", "published_at": "2026-04-03T04:51:12.000Z", "publisher": "The Guardian"
	},
	{
		"uuid": "6a49c992-2642-4e8b-a61a-d40141f0b250", "title": "Republican senators McConnell and Tillis break with Trump on Nato withdrawal", "published_at": "2026-04-02T16:30:00.000Z", "publisher": "The Guardian"
	}
    "... 8 more results"
  ],
  "meta": {
		"page_size": 10,
		"returned": 10,
		"has_more": true,
		"order_by": "archive",
		"filters": {
			"published_after": null, "published_before": null, "language": "en", "country": "US", "topic": null, "publisher_uuid": null, "author_uuid": null, "q": null, "in_title": "trump", "in_body": null, "in_subtitle": null
		},
		"offset": 0,
		"next_offset": 10,
		"next_cursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJvcmRlcl9ieSI6ImFyY2hpdmUiLCJzaWciOiJkNzJlNzAzNGVjMWM4ODgwZWZiZGViMTNmYTU2MDI1MWMxMTZjNTA0YjQ4Yjk4YTMwYTc5ZjExYWZkNGE1NWY0IiwibGFzdF9pZCI6MjA0NjV9"
	}
}

Real response (truncated)

Country, language and category filters Title, subtitle and body search Full article details by UUID

Comparison

A free tier built to be used, not just tested

FreeNewsApi offers one of the most generous free plans available compared to typical news APIs.

5,000 free requests per day with a 2 requests/second rate limit.

Provider	Req/day	Req/month	Rate limit	Delayed data	Article text (body)	Text search	Source
FreeNewsApi	5,000	—	2 req/sec	No	Yes	Yes	—
NewsAPI.org	100	—	Not specified	Yes (24h)	No	Limited	pricing
GNews	100	—	~1 req/sec	Yes (12h)	No	Limited	pricing
NewsData.io	200	—	Not specified	Yes (12h)	Partial	Yes	pricing
Mediastack	—	100	Not specified	Yes	No	Limited	pricing
NewsAPI.ai	—	—	Token-based	No	Yes	Yes	plans

Verified against public pricing pages on April 11, 2026. Limits and features may change over time.

Dataset

Recent volume and current coverage

Coverage size and recent ingestion activity based on the last 7 full days.

countries

languages

101,916

avg articles/day (7d)

84,132

publishers

219,584

authors

Articles per day

Last 7 full days

Coverage

Explore available countries and languages

The map highlights countries currently covered by the API. Hover a country to see the languages currently available in the fetch job catalog.

Browse available news categories

Open the full category list to see the topics currently available across the fetch catalog.

Available categories

View the current topic list used to organize and filter the dataset.

Examples

Search first, then fetch the full article

Use the listing endpoint to discover matching articles, then retrieve complete article text and metadata by UUID.

Search articles

GET /v1/news?language=en&country=us&order_by=archive&in_title=trump

{
  "data": [
    { "uuid": "ee1cab5b-...", "title": "Trump warns Tehran..." },
    "... 9 more results"
  ],
  "meta": {
    "returned": 10,
    "has_more": true
  }
}

Get full article

GET /v1/details?uuid=ee1cab5b-77fe-44f5-952f-3c16e0786b7a

{
  "data": {
    "uuid": "ee1cab5b-...",
    "title": "Trump warns Tehran ‘more to follow’...",
    "publisher": "The Guardian",
    "topics": ["politics", "world"],
    "languages": ["en"],
    "published_at": "2026-04-03T04:51:12.000Z",
    "body": "Donald Trump claimed responsibility..."
  }
}

Filtering

Filter the dataset the way you need

Narrow results with a combination of structured filters and text search.

Country

Limit results to a specific country code.

Language

Filter articles by language code and inspect available combinations.

Publisher

Search or filter by publisher through dedicated lookup endpoints.

Author

Filter by author using lookup results and author UUIDs.

Date range

Use published_before and published_after to narrow time windows.

Endpoints

Everything you need to explore the dataset

Start with lightweight article search, then fetch complete details only when needed.

/v1/news

Lightweight article listing with filters, search, sorting and pagination.

/v1/details

Full article details by UUID, including body text and original article URL.

/v1/publishers

Publisher lookup endpoint for search and autocomplete workflows.

/v1/authors

Search authors and use the returned identifiers to refine article queries.

/v1/languages

Discover which languages are currently available for a specific country.

/v1/topics

Inspect the list of topics currently available across the API catalog.

Documentation

Read the full API reference

Explore parameters, responses, examples and interactive documentation in the public docs.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Quick answers to the most common questions about the API.

Yes. FreeNewsApi is free to use and designed to stay free. The REST API you see here is not a limited trial or a gateway to paid tiers.

No. The REST API presented here is not part of a paid tier system. It is designed as a standalone free service, not a restricted version of a paid product.

/v1/news returns lightweight article results for discovery, filtering and pagination. /v1/details returns the full article payload for a specific UUID, including body text and metadata.

You can do both. The API supports title-specific search as well as broader matching across subtitle and body fields.

Yes. You can filter by country, language, topic, publisher, author and publication time window.

Yes. Full article content is available through the /v1/details endpoint, together with metadata such as publisher, topics, countries, languages and the original article URL.

The full API reference is available in the public documentation, including endpoints, parameters, examples and response formats.

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{ "data": { "uuid": "ee1cab5b-77fe-44f5-952f-3c16e0786b7a", "title": "Trump warns Tehran ‘more to follow’ after strike destroys Iran’s largest bridge", "thumbnail": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dea420d315c126046f3a27553e9a0695fd4c88e4/227_130_1651_1320/master/1651.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none", "publisher": "The Guardian", "authors": [ "Dan Sabbagh", "https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dan-sabbagh" ], "topics": [ "politics", "world" ], "countries": [ "AU", "CA", "GB", "IL", "MY", "NG", "PK", "US" ], "languages": [ "en" ], "published_at": "2026-04-03T04:51:12.000Z", "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/trump-warns-tehran-more-to-follow-after-strike-destroys-irans-largest-bridge", "body": "Donald Trump claimed responsibility for destroying Iran’s largest bridge, a day after he threatened to bomb the country “back to the stone ages” if a deal to end the five-week-long war he started was not reached. The US president shared footage of part of the newly built 136 metre-high $400m B1 suspension bridge between Tehran and Karaj collapsing dramatically on to the causeway below amid a rising plume of black smoke. Eight people were killed and 95 wounded, according to Karaj, Iran’s state media. The middle of the bridge was struck twice. Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects. “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again,” the US president posted on the Truth Social website, and he warned there would be “much more to follow” if a settlement was not reached. Footage shows Iranian bridge destroyed by strikes – video It was not clear if the bridge was being used by civilians at the time, though there appeared to be a lorry on one side of the bridge. One video appeared to show a projectile hitting the span where there was already damage. A day earlier, in a primetime speech Trump had declared the war the US and Israel launched on Iran on 28 February was a success “nearing completion ”, and that the US would “very shortly” achieve nearly all its strategic objectives. But in his White House address, the president also repeated a threat to destroy Iran’s power plants, potentially cutting off electricity to millions of people. “We are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously,” he said. He doubled down on that threat in a social media post after the bridge strike. The attack on the bridge was one of several confirmed attacks in Iran this week, despite the difficulty of getting unsanctioned information out of the country, where the internet has been shut down by the authorities. Footage of a major strike earlier this week on a missile base in the city of Isfahan was confirmed on Thursday as genuine, with fiery plumes and secondary explosions filmed from a nearby car, whose driver expresses surprise at the scale of the attack. Isfahan is also where Iran is thought to have moved some or all of its 440kg stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, which in theory could be used to make 10 nuclear bombs if it could be enriched to 90% if Tehran still had the technology available. There has been speculation in the US that Trump has considered a high-risk airborne raid to seize the radioactive material from its underground storage – though the president said late on Wednesday that it was buried so deeply that “I don’t care”. Though most observers took Trump at his word, the US president has in the past engaged in misdirection. On 28 February, the US and Israel attacked and killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several associates at a point when negotiations over a new nuclear deal were thought to bear fruit. Iran also said the Pasteur medical institute in Tehran was hit on Thursday. Israel said it had struck a headquarters used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to finance armed proxies across the Middle East the day before. Iran said it would conduct “more crushing, broader and more destructive” attacks in the future. The war would continue until the “permanent regret and surrender” of Iran’s enemies, said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the Iranian military’s Khatam al-Anbiya central headquarters. Iran, however, has suffered far more than the US and Israel, in more than 15,000 bombing raids since the start of the war. At least 1,900 people have been killed and 20,000 injured in Iran since the start of the war, according to a rough estimate by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Oil prices jumped by 7% a barrel to $108 as there appeared to be no immediate sign of the conflict ending. António Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications as he called for an end to the fighting." } }