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The Guardian Open Platform
2.7M Guardian articles with full body text, 5,000 free calls/day
The Guardian Open Platform gives free access to over 2.7 million articles from The Guardian and The Observer since 1999, including full body text, tags, contributors, and section data. A free developer key (emailed on registration) allows 5,000 calls/day and about 12 calls/second.
Free tier
Free developer tier: 5,000 calls/day, 12 calls/secRate limits
12 requests/sec and 5,000 requests/day on the free developer keyAuth
API keyBase URL
https://content.guardianapis.comWhat you'd build with it
- Source quality news articles with full text for a summarization agent
- Build a topic monitor over a section or tag
- Create a dated news corpus for RAG or trend analysis
Key endpoints
- GET
/searchSearch articles by query, section, tag, and date - GET
/{item-id}A single content item, optionally with body fields - GET
/sectionsList all content sections - GET
/tagsSearch the Guardian tag taxonomy
Members
Members get the runnable recipe
Sign in free to copy the example request, see a sample response, and read the gotchas.
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newscontentsearchmedia