Best Free News APIs (May 2026)
Ranked by uptime + speed + free-tier quality. Updated every hour.
- #1 Hacker News API — 🟡 Unknown
Official Firebase-based Hacker News API providing real-time access to stories, comments, jobs, and user data.
Unlimited, no key, no credit card
- #2 Spaceflight News API — 🟡 Unknown
Free API aggregating space and astronomy news from major outlets like NASA, ESA, SpaceX, and others.
Unlimited, no key, no credit card
- #3 Reddit JSON API — 🟡 Unknown
Unofficial read-only access to Reddit posts and comments by appending .json to any Reddit URL. No key required.
60 requests/min, no key, must set User-Agent
- #4 Wikipedia REST API — 🟡 Unknown
Official Wikipedia API for retrieving article summaries, full text, featured content, and on-this-day events.
Unlimited, no key, must set User-Agent
- #5 Lobste.rs API — 🟡 Unknown
Simple JSON API for the Lobste.rs technology-focused news aggregator, providing stories, comments, and user data.
Unlimited, no key, no credit card
- #6 DEV Community API — 🟡 Unknown
Official API for DEV.to providing access to articles, tags, and user profiles from the developer community platform.
30 calls/30s unauthenticated, no key for reads
- #7 NewsData.io — 🟡 Unknown
Global news API aggregating 50,000+ sources across 150+ countries.
200 calls/day, free key, email signup
- #8 NewsAPI.org — 🟡 Unknown
Aggregates headlines and articles from 80,000+ news sources worldwide with keyword and source filtering.
100 calls/day, free key, developer-only (no production)
- #9 GNews — 🟡 Unknown
Real-time news search API covering 60,000+ sources in 70+ languages with full-text search and topic filtering.
100 calls/day, free key, no credit card
- #10 Mediastack — 🟡 Unknown
Real-time news API aggregating 7,500+ global sources with filtering by country, language, category, and keyword.
500 calls/month, free key, no credit card
- #11 Currents API — 🟡 Unknown
Latest news articles across 4,000+ sources in 30+ languages with topic and region filtering.
600 calls/day, free key, no credit card
- #12 New York Times APIs — 🟡 Unknown
Official NYT APIs providing access to article search, top stories, book reviews, and movie reviews content.
500 calls/day, 10 calls/min, free key, email signup
- #13 The Guardian Open Platform — 🟡 Unknown
Official Guardian API providing access to over 2 million articles with full text, tags, and section filtering.
500 calls/day, free key, no credit card (test key available)
- #14 NewsCatcher API — 🟡 Unknown
Machine-learning-powered news search API covering 70,000+ sources with NLP-based topic classification.
100 calls/day, free key, no credit card (trial)