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GNews API

Simple multi-source news search and top-headlines API with a no-card free tier.

GNews is a lightweight news aggregation API covering articles from thousands of sources across many languages and countries. Two endpoints, search (query the index) and top-headlines (by category/country), return clean JSON with title, description, content snippet, source, image and publish time. The free tier needs no credit card and is fine for development and prototyping a news-aware Claude Skill, though it is dev/test-only and does not return full article bodies.

Free tier

Free tier (development/testing only, non-commercial). Paid plans from $9.99/mo for commercial use and full content.

Rate limits

Free: 100 requests/day, max ~1 request/second; counter resets 00:00 UTC; over-limit returns HTTP 403.

Auth

API key

Base URL

https://gnews.io/api/v4

What you'd build with it

  • Prototype a keyword news monitor
  • Country/category headline digests
  • Quick news lookups inside an agent tool
  • Multi-language news search for localization

Key endpoints

  • GET/searchKeyword search across the news index (q, lang, country, max, from/to).
  • GET/top-headlinesTop headlines by category and country (general, business, tech, ...).
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newsaggregatormultilingualkeyfree-tier