Best free and paid News APIs for developers

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What is the best news API?

Top 10 Best News APIs for 2021

Bing News Search	Best for News & Trending Topics	Connect to API
Contextual Web Search	Best for Searching News, Images & the Web	Connect to API
Newslit (formerly Nuzzel)	Best for Social News Search	Connect to API
Newscatcher	Best for Social News for Developers	Connect to API
Google News	Best for Google News	Connect to API
HackerNews	Best for Global News	Connect to API
NewsAPI	Best for All Around News	Connect to API
MyAllies Breaking News	Best for Real-time News	Connect to API
Guardian	Best for General News for US, UK & Australia	Connect to API
Financial Times	Best for Financial News & Blogs	Connect to API

Top Picks for Best News APIs

Today we thought we would highlight a few of the best APIs for news. Here is the list of APIs we reviewed:

1. Bing News Search

Developers can integrate the Bing News Search API with websites and applications so that users can search for and discover news based on specific keywords and categories. Among the details included in the news search results are:Article URL
Article title
News article image
Date added
Provider information
The API features trending news (en-US and zh-CN markets only) and topics that can be sorted and filtered based on category and region. You can also retrieve general news, top news, headline news, and related news.

Bing News Search API Pricing
The Bing News Search API has a freemium pricing plan, which allows developers up to 100 free API requests per day, then $0.005 per additional request.
Popularity Score: 8.6/10
Best ForNews & Trending Topics

2. Contextual Web Search

ContextualWeb is a new search engine powered by technologies that “mimic the human brain.” Roi Krakovski, PhD Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, has written a post on Quora that explains in detail what ContextualWeb is and how it works.
Krakovski explains in the post that this search engine works unlike any of the well-known search engines in that there is no natural language processing (NLP), and no deep learning models or standard machine learning models.

ContextualWeb API Pricing
The ContextualWeb API is free to use and provides access to billions of web pages, images, and news. Krakovski says in the Quora post that “we truly believe that they [developers] will find the API highly competitive with Bing News and Images API.”
Popularity Score: 9.6/10
Best ForSearching News, Images & the Web

3. Newslit (formerly Nuzzel)

Earlier this year, Nuzzel launched Nuzzel Media Intelligence, a news monitoring and research product for business professionals. This new product is powered by Nuzzel’s News Search API. Nuzzel Media Intelligence analyzes millions of shared links that go through the Nuzzel system determining which of those links the company considers high-quality news sources. The system automatically adds sites to a list of news sources which are then continuously scanned. At this time, the system is scanning more than 100,000 news sources and nearly one million stories every day.

The Nuzzel News Search API returns news stories by keyword and each news story contains a number of fields including (but not limited to):URL, title
Source (publisher)
Date
News image
Short excerpt


Nuzzel News Search API Pricing
The company offers a free plan and three paid plans each providing different API usage levels.
Popularity Score: 7.9/10
Best ForSocial News Search

4. Newscatcher

The Newscatcher API is an Ultra-fast API to find news articles by any topic, country, language, website, or keyword. Features include:Multi-language search
Hand-picked sources
Fast response time
Extensive documentation

Popularity Score: 9.5/10
Best ForSocial News for Developers

5. Google News

The Google News API (also provided by Newscatcher) is an unofficial Google News API that provides:Topic Headlines
Top Headlines
Search
Search by Source
and Geographic Headlines

Related Tutorial: Using the Google News API with Python

Popularity Score: 6.3/10
Best ForGoogle News

6. HackerNews

Many developers are familiar with Hacker News (HN), but for those of you who aren’t, Hacker News is a social news website ran by Y Combinator. The site focuses primarily on sharing computer science and entrepreneurship news stories. Hacker News has partnered with Firebase to make HN data available in near real time. The Hackers News API returns in near real-time up to 500 top and new stories and returns best stories. The technology news API returns up to 200 show HN, Ask HN, and Job stories. Stories, comments, jobs, and other HN information are items that are identified by an ID. And each item has some properties such as URL, title, item type, time (creation date), text, and by (username of the author).

Hacker News API Pricing
The Hacker News API is free to use (MIT License).
Popularity Score: 9.7/10
Best ForGlobal News

7. NewsAPI

The NewsAPI is a simple and easy to use REST API that returns JSON metadata for headlines currently published from over 30,000 news sources and blogs.

The NewsAPI covers top publications including:ABC News
Al Jazeera
Associated Press
BBC News
Business Insider
CNN
Buzzfeed
Fox
ESPN
and so much more.

The API also cover a huge range of countries around the world.
NewsAPI Pricing

The NewsAPI has 3 pricing tiers:Developer - Completely free for all non-commercial projects (limited to 500 requests/day)
Business - $449/month for 250,000 requests/month (no uptime SLA)
Enterprise - $849 for 250,000 requests/month plus 99.95% uptime SLA

Popularity Score: 8.6/10
Best ForAll Around News

8. MyAllies Breaking News

The MyAllies Breaking News API delivers real-time news and stock pricing from across the globe. It also provides information on the latest breaking business and financial news.
The API has 3 endpoints:Real-time News Feed
Company NewsGet Company Details by Symbol

MyAllies API Pricing
The MyAllies API is completely free to use on RapidAPI.
Popularity Score: 9.1/10 
Best ForReal-time News

9. Guardian

The Guardian is a British publication that delivers:Local News

Global News
Sports
Business
Opinion
Analysis
and Reviews

The API allows you to query the Guardian's database of editions, sections, tags and search.
Popularity Score: 5.8/10
Best ForGeneral News for US, UK & Australia

10. Financial Times

The Financial Times is one of the leading global business publications that provides news, analysis and comments. The API allows developers to query financial news, blog posts, and articles.

Get content through the API by aspect, ID, notifications, curations, facets, and search.
Popularity Score: 5.5 /10
Best ForFinancial News & Blogs

This post highlights just a few of the news APIs available at RapidAPI. Visit API Marketplace to find APIs that provide news from around the world for a wide range of categories and topics.

Do you agree with our post? Did we miss any news APIs that you use? Comment below your favorite APIs.

Summary: Best News APIs for Developers

API	Main Functionality	Popularity Score	Latency	Success Rate
Bing News Search	Search News from Bing	8.6/10	362ms	99%
Contextual Web Search	Search Engine for the Web, Images, and News	9.6/10	5456ms	95%
Nuzzel News Search	Search for News	7.9/10	113ms	100%
Newscatcher	Search for Top News	9.5/10	376ms	98%
Google News	Search for Top News Headlines	9.7/10	1275ms	99%
Hacker News	Access Hacker News stories, comments, and user data	6.3/10	598ms	100%
NewsAPI	Access Global News from multiple sources	8.6/10	427ms	100%
MyAllies Breaking News	Real-time financial news	9.1/10	973ms	87%
Guardian	Get News from the Guardian	5.8/10	239ms	100%
Financial Times	Financial news, blogs, and articles	5.5/10	239ms	100%

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