News API

Name: News API
Brand: News API
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For Agents

Search and retrieve news articles from 80,000+ worldwide sources. Returns article metadata, source attribution, and publication timestamps for AI-assisted research and monitoring.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the News API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the News API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with News API.

Search the live news index across 80,000+ sources by keyword, date range, language, and domain via GET /everything

Retrieve breaking-news top headlines filtered by country, category, or source through GET /top-headlines

Enumerate the supported news sources directory with country, language, and category metadata via GET /top-headlines/sources

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use News API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Brand and Competitor Monitoring

Marketing and PR teams use News API to track mentions of their brand, products, and competitors across worldwide press. GET /everything accepts keyword queries, date ranges, language filters, and source filters so a daily cron job can pull the previous day's mentions, deduplicate by URL, and feed them into an internal review queue. The 80,000+ source coverage means coverage in regional press is captured alongside major outlets.

Fetch all articles from the last 24 hours mentioning 'Acme Corp' in English and return titles, sources, and URLs

Breaking-News Dashboards

Newsroom and trading-desk dashboards pull current top headlines via GET /top-headlines filtered by country and category. The endpoint returns the same set of headlines that NewsAPI's homepage surfaces, so a refresh every few minutes is sufficient for an editorial or market-watch view. Source attribution and publication timestamps are included on every article.

Get the top 20 business headlines for the United States and return them sorted by publication time

Event Timeline Research

Analysts researching how an event was covered over time call GET /everything with a keyword query and successive date windows. By stepping the from and to parameters week by week, an agent can build a coverage timeline showing volume, language, and outlet distribution. This is useful for due-diligence reports, academic research, and post-incident reviews.

For the search term 'merger announcement Q1 2026', return article counts grouped by week between January and March

Agent-Powered News Briefing

An AI agent uses News API through Jentic to generate morning briefings tailored to a user's interests. The agent queries GET /top-headlines for the user's country and categories, summarises the headlines, and formats a digest. Source attribution is preserved so the user can click through to the original article when something looks relevant.

Build a 5-bullet morning briefing covering the top US technology, business, and health headlines for the current day

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for news api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/everything

Search the live news index by keyword, date, language, and source

GET

/top-headlines

Get current breaking-news headlines filtered by country or category

GET

/top-headlines/sources

List supported news sources with country, language, and category metadata

GET

/everything

Search the live news index by keyword, date, language, and source

GET

/top-headlines

Get current breaking-news headlines filtered by country or category

GET

/top-headlines/sources

List supported news sources with country, language, and category metadata

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your News API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected into the API-key request header at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'search news articles about a topic' or 'get top headlines for a country', and Jentic returns the matching News API operation with its query parameter schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using News API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for News API?

NewsAPI.org does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call News API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the News API use?

News API uses an API key passed in the X-Api-Key request header. Through Jentic the key sits in the encrypted vault and Jentic injects it on each call, so the raw key never enters the agent's prompt or response context.

Can I search news articles by date range with the News API?

Yes. GET /everything accepts from and to query parameters in ISO-8601 format, so an agent can pull articles for a specific window. The /top-headlines endpoint, in contrast, returns only current breaking news and does not accept a date range.

What is the difference between /everything and /top-headlines?

/everything searches the full historical news index and supports keyword queries, date ranges, language, source, and domain filters. /top-headlines returns the smaller, curated set of current breaking-news headlines and is filtered by country, category, or source. Use /everything for research and monitoring; use /top-headlines for live front-page feeds.

How do I build a news monitoring agent with News API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'search news articles by keyword', load the GET /everything schema, and execute with your query string and date range. Jentic returns the structured article list - title, source, URL, publication timestamp - that the agent can summarise or store.

Is News API free to use?

NewsAPI.org offers a free developer tier intended for non-commercial and prototype use, with paid plans for production usage and historical search depth. The API surface is identical across plans; what changes is request volume, the look-back window, and commercial-use rights.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the News API?

Yes. News API is read-only search, so with your self-hosted Jentic One instance you scope the agent by operation, and your own rules decide which of the three read operations it may call. You can allow only what it needs, such as searching articles via GET /everything or fetching breaking-news headlines via GET /top-headlines, and leave the GET /top-headlines/sources directory out when it is not required. Because filters are passed in the query string rather than as resource IDs in the URL path, you control access at the operation level and the agent can only invoke the endpoints you permit.