Changelog

We've made the Sentiment and Tag available on the Free and Basic plans. Previously, these features were available only on the Professional and Corporate plans.

This update gives more users access to sentiment analysis and article tags for news analysis, categorization, and filtering.

We're excited to introduce the Real-Time Streaming API, enabling you to receive live news updates through a persistent WebSocket connection as they are published without the need for repeated API polling.

For more details, visit the Real-Time Streaming API documentation.

We've enhanced the Market Endpoint by replacing the symbol parameter with market_id, a globally unique identifier in the format TICKER-COUNTRY-EXCHANGE that accurately identifies publicly listed companies across global stock exchanges. 

We've also introduced Market Identifier Search, allowing you to search by company name or stock ticker to find the correct market_id for your API requests quickly.

We are excited to announce that WebSocket streaming is coming soon to NewsData.io, enabling you to receive live news updates as they are published, without repeated API polling.
For more information, visit our documentation to get ready for launch.

Today, we're excited to announce an enhancement to our Corporate Plan. Corporate users can now access up to 10 years of historical news data.

Additionally, Custom historical news data is now available from 2016 onwards. Users can request tailored datasets covering up to 10 years.

Starting today, we're introducing an official Postman collection for the NewsData.io API. This collection allows you to quickly test and explore all API endpoints without writing any code.

For more information, visit our documentation or simply import the NewsData.io API collection into Postman.

Starting today, we’re introducing three new API parameters:

datatype: This optional parameter allows you to filter articles by their content type. Supported values include: news, blog, multimedia, forum, press_release, review, research, opinion, analysis, and podcast.

sentiment_score: This optional parameter allows you to filter articles based on sentiment score. It returns only articles with a sentiment score equal to or greater than the specified value.

creator: This optional parameter allows you to search articles by the name of the author or content creator.

For more details, visit the Documentation.

Starting today, we’re rolling out updates to the Response Object and sorting capabilities across multiple endpoints.

New response field

fetched_at: The timestamp indicates when the article was fetched and indexed by NewsData.io.

Sorting Enhancements

We’ve extended the sort parameter to support additional filtering capabilities. You can now use fetched_at within the sort parameter to order articles based on when they were fetched.

We’ve added a new response field, datatype, to help you better classify and filter the type of content returned in your API results.

The datatype field now indicates the specific type of each article. Supported values include: news, blog, multimedia, forum, press release, review, research, opinion, analysis, and podcast.

We’ve introduced the News Count API, allowing users to fetch the exact article count for any search query across our database. This feature supports all filters and parameters available in the existing endpoints and can be used within the Archive, Market and Crypto endpoints.

For more details, visit the documentation.

We’ve introduced News AI Tags in the tag parameter for the Market endpoint, allowing users to search and filter market-related news using AI-classified tags.

Available for Professional and Corporate users.
For more details, visit the documentation.

The excludecountry parameter has been added to the Latest, Archive, and Market endpoints. You can now exclude news articles from specific countries to refine your search results.

• Include up to 5 countries per query on Free and Basic plans
• Include up to 10 countries per query on Professional and Corporate plans

Check the full list of supported country codes in the documentation.

We’re excited to launch a new 'Market' endpoint designed for real-time financial and stock market news from premium global sources.

For more details, visit the Documentation.

Starting today, we're introducing three new API parameters:

excludelanguage: This optional parameter allows you to exclude specific languages when searching for news articles. You can exclude up to 5 languages per query on the Free and Basic plans. For Professional and Corporate plans, this limit can be customized up to 10 languages.

sort: This optional parameter lets you sort the search results based on your preferred criteria. Available options include:

• pubdateasc – Sort articles by publish date in ascending order (oldest to newest).

• relevancy – Sort articles by most relevant results first based on your query.

• source – Sort articles by source priority (top to low).
  

url: This optional parameter allows you to search for a specific news article by providing its URL. It fetches details of that particular article directly.

These parameters are now available across the relevant endpoints to help you refine your searches and retrieve more precise results.

The ai_content field will be deprecated from all responses starting November 1, 2025. Please update your integrations accordingly.

Starting today, we have added a new feature that allows users to create and manage multiple API keys within their account.

Key Highlights:

• Users can now generate up to 5 API keys (including the default key).
• Default API Key cannot be renamed or deleted, but can be regenerated anytime.
• Additional keys can be created, renamed, regenerated, or deleted.
• Each key includes usage tracking with a detailed graph and credit consumption history.
• Restriction options are available for enhanced security, similar to the existing key restriction features.
• Paid Plan users can create multiple keys. However, if downgraded to a Free Plan, all created keys will be deleted automatically.
• Users can download detailed API logs for each key in CSV format.

This update provides developers and teams with more flexibility, security, and control over their NewsData.io API usage.

Starting today, we're introducing two new response object fields:

ai_summary: This new response object field provides a concise AI-generated summary of a news article. This response object field is available in all paid plans.

ai_content: This new response object field provides the AI-enhanced full content of a news article. This response object field is available only in the Professional and Corporate plans.

Effective from July 11, 2025. We are updating our subscription plans to reflect added value, enhanced features, and greater API capacity. Below is a detailed breakdown of the upcoming changes:

Basic Plan

• New Price: $149.99 → $199.99/month
• New Features Added:
  
  ✅ AI Summary - AI-generated concise summary of a news article. (Coming soon)

Professional Plan – Best Value for Growing Teams

• New Price: $249.99 → $349.99/month
• Historical Data Access: 1 year → 2 years
• Query Limit: 100 characters → 256 characters
• New Features Added:
  
  ✅ AI Summary - AI-generated concise summary of a news article. (Coming soon)
  ✅ AI Content - AI-enhanced full content of news articles. (Coming soon)

This plan is now more powerful than ever, ideal for developers, startups, and teams scaling fast.

Corporate Plan

• New Price: $599.99 → $1,299.99/month
• API Tokens: 300,000 → 1 Million
• Historical Data Access: 2 years → 5 years
• Query Limit: 100 characters → 512 characters
• New Features Added:
  
  ✅ AI Summary - AI-generated concise summary of a news article. (Coming soon)
  ✅ AI Content - AI-enhanced full content of news articles. (Coming soon)
  

Note: ai_summary and ai_content are available only in the English language

Upgrade before July 11 to lock in current pricing and get all the upgraded features.

Starting from April 20, 2025, we will adjust the character limit for keyword or sentence-based searches from 512 characters to 100 characters (including spaces) to enhance performance and improve response times.

Today, we're adding a parameter "domainurl" in the "Sources" endpoint. This parameter allows users to retrieve detailed source information for a specific domain.

Starting today, we're introducing two new response objects fields:

coin: This new response object field provides the symbol of the cryptocurrencies mentioned in the article. It is exclusively available in the Crypto endpoint.

pubDateTZ: The pubDateTimezone response object field will provide the time zone of the publication date mentioned in the news article. This response object field is available in the Latest/News, Crypto, and Archive endpoints.

Today, We're thrilled to announce that we have launched 1 new response object and 1 new parameter in the "latest" and "crypto" endpoints.

Response Object

duplicate - This response object will help identify whether the article is duplicate or not.

duplicate = false: This indicates that the article is recognized as unique.

duplicate = true: This signifies that the article is identified as a duplicate of an article already present.

New Parameter

The "removeduplicate" parameter will allow users to filter out duplicate articles, ensuring that users receive only unique articles, enhancing the overall user experience.

(Note: The mentioned response object and parameter functioning works on the basis of Newsdata.io's internal algorithm. It doesn’t imply that the article which has a duplicate is actually a duplicate article.)

Today, We're thrilled to announce that our corporate plans now come up with one new response field in the "Latest" endpoint.

Starting today, the result will include "ai_org" as an additional field in the response object.

ai_org: This response field will provide the AI-classified name of the organizations mentioned in the article. It is now available in the latest endpoint, offering a new level of detail and enhanced insights.

Today, We're changing the name of our "news" endpoint to "latest" endpoint. Both endpoints will remain functional ensuring uninterrupted access to our news data. Additionally, we will deprecate our "news" endpoint in a year, and the "latest" endpoint will remain operational.

Users can access the “latest” endpoint using the following URL:

https://newsdata.io/api/1/latest?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Today, We're adding the "excludefield" parameter in the "news", "archive" and "crypto" endpoint. This addition allows users to limit which response object they want and which they want to avoid.

Today, We're adding the "excludecategory" parameter in the "news" and "archive" endpoint. This addition allows you to exclude up to 5 specific categories from your searches, refining your results to meet your needs better.

Today, we are delighted to announce that Crypto Endpoint now supports crypto coin news tracking. Starting today, you can use the 'coin' parameter to track any crypto coin news.

We are removing the following parameters from Crypto Endpoint. Effective immediately, the following parameters are no longer supported in the Crypto Endpoint.

• Country
• Category
• Region

Today, we're adding a parameter "id". Starting today, you can search for any specific article by using its unique "article_id".

Today, We're adding 2 new response objects. Starting today, your result will include the following response objects:

source_url: We've introduced the source_url response object to provide the URL of the source from which the news article originated.

source_icon: The source_icon response object has been added, allowing you to retrieve the logo associated with the news source.

Today, We're thrilled to announce that our corporate plan now come with 1 new response object and 1 new parameter in the "news" endpoint.

Response Object

Starting today, the result will include the following response object.

ai_region: This response object will provide the AI-classified regional information for a specific geographical understanding of news articles. ai_region could be a city, district, county, state, country, or continent.

New Parameters

region: This parameter allows you to retrieve news articles based on city, district, county, state, country, or continent.

Today, We're thrilled to announce that our professional and corporate plans now come with 2 new parameters in the "news" endpoint.

New Parameters

tag: This enhancement allows you to retrieve news articles based on their AI tag. For instance, specifying "tag=food,diseases" will retrieve articles related to food and diseases tags. You can add up to 5 tags in a single query. .

sentiment: This parameter allows you to retrieve news articles based on the overall sentiment of the news article (positive, negative, neutral) For instance, specifying "sentiment=positive" will retrieve only positive sentiment articles.

Today, We're thrilled to announce that our professional and corporate plans now come with 3 additional response objects. Starting today, the result will include the following response objects:

Response Object

ai_tag: We've implemented advanced AI-based classification for news articles. Using machine learning, each article is now tagged into 85 categories , offering a more granular understanding of the content.

sentiment: This will provide the overall sentiment of each news article. Sentiments are categorized as positive, negative, or neutral.

sentiment_stats: This will provide the sentiment distribution of each news article. Track the ratio of positive, negative, and neutral sentiments of each news article.

Effective from January 15, 2024, the following adjustments will be made to the free plan:

Latest News Delay: Latest news updates will be delayed by 12 hours for free plan users.

Content: Full content will no longer be included in the response results for free plan users.

Timeframe Parameter: The "timeframe" parameter will be removed from the free plan.

To continue enjoying uninterrupted, real-time news updates, we encourage you to consider upgrading to one of our premium plans. Upgrade Now 

Today, we're adding 1 new response object "source_priority". Starting today, your response will include source_priority, which shows the rank of news domains on the basis of their traffic and authenticity. The lower the source priority, the more authentic the domain.

Today, we're adding a parameter "prioritydomain" in the News "Sources" endpoint. This enhancement allows you to retrieve a list of News sources based on their credibility by utilizing the "prioritydomain" parameter. For instance, specifying "prioritydomain=top" will retrieve 100 news sources that rank within the top 10% of all available sources.

Today, We're updating the 'timeframe' parameter in the "news" and "crypto" endpoint, now users can search the news articles for a specific time frame in minutes. You can define the timeframe in minutes from 1m to 2880m.

Today, we're adding 1 new response object "article_id". Starting today, your response will include article_id, which is the unique id of each article.

Today, we're launching 1 new parameter "qInMeta". Along with "q" and "qInTitle" we are launching one more query parameter to let our users get more news compared to "qInTitle" and much more relevancy compared to "q" parameters.

"qInMeta": Search news articles for specific keywords or phrases present in the news titles, URL, meta keywords and meta description only. The value must be URL-encoded and the maximum character limit permitted is 512 characters. Note: qInMeta can't be used with either q or qInTitle parameters in the same query.

Difference between "q", "qInTitle" and "qInMeta"

"qInTitle" searches the keywords/phrases only in the Title of the news articles.

"qInMeta" searches the keywords/phrases in Title, URL, meta description and meta keywords of the news articles.

"q" searches the keywords/phrases in everything like Title, URL, meta description, meta keywords and full content of the articles.

Today, We're updating the Archive Endpoint. Starting today, your query must include one of these parameters: ['q', 'qintitle', 'domain', 'country', 'category', 'language', 'full_content', 'image', 'video', 'prioritydomain', 'domainurl'], otherwise your API query will not work.

We are launching the following parameter today to further improve upon the Newsdata API experience:

• size: Now users can customize the number of articles they get per page or per request from 1 to 50.
• timeframe: In “News'' endpoint, now users can search the news articles for a specific hourly time frame. You can define the timeframe from 1 to 48.
• excludedomain: Now users can exclude specific domains while searching the news articles.
• prioritydomain: Search the news articles only from top news domains. We have categorized prioritydomain into 3 categories namely top, medium, and low.
• timezone: Search the news articles for a specific timezone.
• full_content: Search the news articles with full content or without full content.
• image: Search the news articles with featured images or without featured images.
• video: Search the news articles with videos or without videos.

Updated Parameter

• domain: domain parameter is now changed to domainurl. Now users can search news articles for specific domains or news sources. If the domain is incorrect, It will give suggestions in the response.

Today, we have increased the historical data access in the Professional and Corporate Plans. Corporate users can now access 2 years of historical data, while Professional users can access 1 year of historical data.