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Currents API

Global multilingual news search and latest-news feed with a 1,000/day free plan.

Currents API delivers recent and historical news articles from sources worldwide in 18+ languages, exposed as JSON with title, description, url, author, image, language, category and publish time. It offers a latest-news feed and a search endpoint with language/category/region/date filters, plus keyless helper endpoints listing available regions, languages and categories. The free plan's 1,000 daily requests is generous for building a news-aware Claude automation, with no credit card required. Verified live in June 2026.

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Free tier

Free plan (1,000 requests/day, no card). Paid plans from $69/mo for higher volume and commercial scale.

Rate limits

Free: 1,000 requests/day. Responses include X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers.

Auth

API key

Base URL

https://api.currentsapi.services/v1

What you'd build with it

Multilingual latest-news feed for a digest bot
Keyword + region news monitoring
Language-specific news for localization
RAG corpus of recent global headlines

Key endpoints

GET/latest-newsLatest published news, filterable by language.
GET/searchSearch news by keyword, language, category, country, region and date.
GET/available/regionsList supported regions (keyless).
GET/available/languagesList supported languages (keyless).

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