TheNewsAPI
TheNewsAPI
TheNewsAPI is run by the vendr team and focuses on ease of use plus transparent pricing — 50+ country coverage, UUID article IDs, clean JSON structure.
Low commercial entry price ($19/mo vs NewsAPI $449)
Source count not publicly disclosed (community estimates 5K-10K)
Sign up at thenewsapi.com for an api_token, then GET https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1/news/all?api_token=XXX&search=world+cup.
Uptime · 30-day window
About this API
TheNewsAPI emerged around 2020, positioned as a lightweight commercial alternative to NewsAPI — same REST pattern but the commercial bar is much lower ($19/mo vs NewsAPI Business at $449/mo). API design borrows Stripe conventions: UUID primary keys, unified error envelope, clean pagination. Three main endpoints: /all (search), /top (headlines), /sources. Free tier is 100 requests/day. Good fit for small-scale commercial products, news aggregation MVPs, and portfolio pieces that need to claim commercial use. Less suitable for data-science projects that need >1 year of historical news.
What you can build
- 1Alternative to NewsAPI's expensive Business plan (commercial use, modest traffic)
- 2News aggregation MVPs
- 3Keyword and entity tracking
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Low commercial entry price ($19/mo vs NewsAPI $449)
- UUID article IDs make dedup easy
- Stable JSON shape and clear error messages
Limitations
- Source count not publicly disclosed (community estimates 5K-10K)
- Short historical backfill window (30 days max)
- Thin local-media coverage in some regions
Example request
curl https://www.thenewsapi.com/<endpoint> \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY"Getting started
Sign up at thenewsapi.com for an api_token, then GET https://api.thenewsapi.com/v1/news/all?api_token=XXX&search=world+cup.
FAQ
TheNewsAPI vs NewsAPI Business?+
TheNewsAPI is 20x more affordable but has fewer sources and shorter backfill. Small-to-mid projects: TheNewsAPI. Need deep global coverage: NewsAPI Business.
Technical details
- Auth type
- api_key
- Pricing
- free
- Rate limit
- Free 每天 100 请求；付费从 $19/月起
- Free tier quota
- Free tier: 100 requests/day. Paid plans from $19/month with higher quotas and commercial use.
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- javascript, python