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Spaceflight News API (SNAPI)
Keyless REST feed of spaceflight news, blogs and reports from 40+ sources.
SNAPI, run by The Space Devs, aggregates spaceflight articles, blog posts and reports from 40+ outlets (SpaceNews, NASA, SpaceX, Ars Technica, NASASpaceflight, Spaceflight Now and more). Fully open and keyless: no signup, no token, no quota gate. Articles can be filtered by news site, full-text searched, and linked to Launch Library 2 launches and events, which makes it a clean drop-in news source for any space-themed Claude Skill or automation. Verified live in June 2026 returning ~34,700 articles with current same-day items.
Free tier
Free, open source, no API key.Rate limits
Not published. No documented hard limit; be polite (the maintainers ask you not to hammer it).Auth
No keyBase URL
https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4What you'd build with it
- Auto-summarize the day's spaceflight headlines into a digest
- Watch for new launch coverage and post alerts to Slack/Discord
- Build a topic-filtered space news RAG corpus
- Enrich a launch tracker with linked news articles
Key endpoints
- GET
/articles/List articles, paginated; filter by news_site, search, ordering, limit/offset. - GET
/articles/{id}/Fetch a single article by id. - GET
/blogs/List spaceflight blog posts (same query params as articles). - GET
/reports/List longer-form spaceflight reports. - GET
/info/API metadata: version and the list of aggregated news sites.
Members
Members get the runnable recipe
Sign in free to copy the example request, see a sample response, and read the gotchas.
Tags
spacenewskeylessrestopen-source