AI-ready news data • REST API for LLMs, RAG & AI agents

Best News API for Real-Time ,
Historical & Worldwide News Data

Get real-time and historical news from 102434+ trusted sources across 206+ countries in 90+ languages. Power AI agents, market intelligence, finance, media monitoring, and news applications with one scalable REST API.

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1,02,434+

News Sources

206+

Countries

90+

Languages

10+

Years Historical Data

What is NewsData.io?

The real-time News API for the AI era

NewsData.io is a real-time News API that provides structured news data from thousands of global publishers. Developers and businesses use it to build AI agents, market intelligence platforms, financial tools, media monitoring systems and news applications.

Real-Time & Breaking News

Global News Coverage

Historical News Archive

REST API for Developers

AI-Ready JSON API

Multilingual Support

How does NewsData.io work?

From signup to structured data in four steps

Create Free Account

Generate API Key

Get an instant key from your dashboard.

Choose Filters

Country, language, keyword & category.

Receive JSON Response

Parse clean data and build your application.

All-in-One News API

Get real-time news feeds, historical archives, and deep analytical insights from thousands of trusted global sources in one unified platform.

Who uses NewsData.io?

One News API for market intelligence, brand monitoring, AI, and research - real-time, structured news from global publishers to power smarter applications.

AI Agents

Feed real-time news to LLMs, RAG pipelines & autonomous agents.

Market Intelligence

Track industries, competitors and signals as they break.

Financial Intelligence

Power trading models with structured financial news.

Media Monitoring

Monitor coverage across 102434+ global publishers.

Brand Monitoring

Follow brand mentions and sentiment worldwide.

Research

Query a decade of historical archives for analysis.

Trading Platforms

Deliver low-latency news events to your users.

News Apps

Launch news products without a scraping pipeline.

What Our Clients Say

Trusted by companies, researchers, and analysts worldwide for reliable real-time news intelligence and insights.

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A 90-second product walkthrough of the API and intelligence platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find quick answers about NewsData.io APIs, pricing, integrations, licensing, and news data access.

News API is an API that is used to collect News data along with the related metadata. Newsdata.io is a JSON-based REST API to fetch and get news data in JSON format.

Yes, NewsData.io News API is 100% legal and can be used for commercial purposes. However, it is possible that publishing the full news content and media as your own may attract copyright issues from the original publisher. Hence, if you are using our API for publishing news articles, we suggest you give credit to the original publisher of the articles. As a part of the News API, NewsData.io aggregates and generates news data from publicly available web pages

Step 1 : Go to Newsdata.io and register yourself.

Step 2 : Choose an appropriate pricing plan, and if you’re not sure about it then you can also choose the free plan.

Step 3 : To fetch news data you can simply use Newsdata.io’s news search dashboard and download the data in CSV and XLSX format, or use the API key to fetch news data through a python script.

We are just the data aggregator and we gather the data from the RSS feed provided by the news sources themselves. Hence, there is no need to be legally authorized by any news source. You can use the data for personal and commercial use. The data you can use to publish are Title, short description, publisher name, author name, date, and time. The data you can't post are images and the full content of the news.

Copyright and other legal issues depend on various circumstances. For example,

If you are using full content of a news article from some news sources and publish it as your own then it may attract copyright issues.
If you are using full size images and videos from some news sources and publish it as your own then it may attract copyright issues.

However, there is no copyright issue if,

You publish the news feed from various news sources on your platform.
You are displaying a thumbnail size image in the news feed.
You are using the data for research and other purposes.

Also, I would like you to note the following points:

The news itself, as a fact or event, cannot be copyrighted by a website or any other source. However, the way it's presented in articles, images, or videos can be.
According to the Supreme Court of the USA, publicly available internet content can generally be scraped and used for commercial purposes, such as what Google Search does. However, publishing someone's full content, images, or videos as your own may still infringe on copyright laws.

As Google News has discontinued its news API long back, now we use APIs like Newsdata.io to fetch all the news from Google news.

There are several reasons to choose NewsData.io over NewsAPI.org. Here are some key reasons:

The full content of the article.
Sentiment analysis of each news.
Region-based news.
More news coverage as compared to NewsAPI.org
Easy Integration and more budget-friendly.
Real-time clustering and streamlining of News data.
Less noise, and more of the news coverage you want.
More Flexibility and Data Availability in a range of languages.
Best Free News API in the market.

Yes, Newsdata.io news API is a REST-based news API.

You can't publish images and videos as such because it may attract copyright issues from the owner of the images and videos but you can use a thumbnail version (small in size) of the images without attracting copyright.

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