The Best Real-Time News API for Developers
Search real-time articles from 80,000+ trusted sources across 41 languages and 71 countries, and tap into years of historical news going back to 2020, all delivered in clean JSON that is ready to use. Build news monitoring, aggregation, and analytics features in minutes, not weeks.
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{
"totalArticles": 90545,
"articles": [
{
"id": "e85d27a82144f4d4f60fc5a31d4afc80",
"title": "Soon, free Gmail won’t let you “send as” a third-party email accounts.",
"description": "Support for sending emails from third-party accounts like Yahoo or Outlook is ending in January 2027, Android Authority reports. Google’s also discontinuing Gmailify and the ability to fetch emails from third-party accounts in Gmail, but says you can still use “send as” for Gmail addresses and aliases, and “Google Workspace ‘Send as’ functionality is not affected.”\n[Link: Gmail is getting rid of one of its most useful features | https://www.androidpolice.com/gmail-is-getting-rid-of-one-of-its-most-useful-features/ | Android Police]",
"content": "S\nExternal Link\nSoon, free Gmail won’t let you “send as” a third-party email accounts.\nSupport for sending emails from third-party accounts like Yahoo or Outlook is ending in January 2027, Android Authority reports. Google’s also discontinuing Gmaili... [715 chars]",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/975975/soon-free-gmail-wont-let-you-send-as-a-third-party-email-accounts",
"image": "https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-placeholder_f212b3.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0.13712291199202,100,99.725754176016",
"publishedAt": "2026-08-05T22:40:23Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "cb749b89c7dc92dc2d517a49bb9a43ab",
"name": "The Verge",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com",
"country": "us"
}
},
{
"id": "c28f82a4ffd1582847e9490cc48be9b2",
"title": "The Pixel 11’s “HiLight” might glow in these colors.",
"description": "9to5Google uncovered code in the Google Contacts app that suggests you’ll be able to give your favorite contacts a “glow color” that appears on the Pixel 11’s built-in light when they call. Based on the code, you might get to choose from blue, cyan, green, orange, pink, purple, teal, white, or yellow.\n[Link: Google Contacts reveals what colors Pixel 11 HiLight will support | https://9to5google.com/2026/08/05/google-contacts-pixel-11-hilight/ | 9to5Google]",
"content": "E\nExternal Link\nThe Pixel 11’s “HiLight” might glow in these colors.\n9to5Google uncovered code in the Google Contacts app that suggests you’ll be able to give your favorite contacts a “glow color” that appears on the Pixel 11’s built-in light when th... [638 chars]",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/975953/the-pixel-11s-hilight-might-glow-in-these-colors",
"image": "https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-placeholder_f212b3.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0.13712291199202,100,99.725754176016",
"publishedAt": "2026-08-05T22:16:24Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "cb749b89c7dc92dc2d517a49bb9a43ab",
"name": "The Verge",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com",
"country": "us"
}
},
{
"id": "758f47bbf5a6b94282789607393d0322",
"title": "Smart People in Tech and Business React to Google's AI Restructuring",
"description": "Opinions diverge on what it means for DeepMind's future as Google overhauls its AI leadership.",
"content": "Sebastian Mallaby, a British journalist and author who once wrote a biography of Hassabis and DeepMind, said in a on X that the change is \"a formalization of something that had been happening informally.\"\n\"Demis has been playing the role of Google AI... [2086 chars]",
"url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-people-in-tech-and-business-react-google-ai-restructuring-2026-8",
"image": "https://i.insider.com/6a739abd3f00ff875d13d8c3?width=1200&format=jpeg",
"publishedAt": "2026-08-05T20:41:01Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "458ddf355ab77631d3eb3dd84a0351b4",
"name": "Business Insider",
"url": "https://www.businessinsider.com",
"country": "us"
}
}
]
}
* Search results are in English and US sources only. For other languages/regions, see documentation at docs.gnews.io.
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Live coverage that keeps growing every day in 2026.
Articles indexed
100M+
News sources
80,000+
Languages
41
Live updates
24/7
Countries
71
Years of history
6+
From request to
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Make your first call with a single GET request and get back clean JSON you can drop straight into your app. GNews API gives you two endpoints.
Query the entire archive by keyword, with filters for language, country, and date range. Best for monitoring and research.
const url = "https://gnews.io/api/v4/search?q=Apple&lang=en&apikey=API_KEY"; const res = await fetch(url); const data = await res.json(); console.log(data.articles);
{
"totalArticles": 54231,
"articles": [
{
"id": "a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4",
"title": "Apple unveils the iPhone 17 lineup at its fall event",
"description": "The company showed new models, a faster chip, and camera upgrades.",
"content": "Apple introduced its new iPhone lineup on Tuesday at its annual fall event, led by a faster chip and upgraded cameras across the range. Preorders open this week and devices ship later this... [1654 chars]",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com/apple-iphone-17",
"image": "https://cdn.example.com/iphone-17.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-06-28T12:00:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "f9e8d7c6b5a4f9e8d7c6b5a4f9e8d7c6",
"name": "The Verge",
"url": "https://www.theverge.com",
"country": "us"
}
}
]
}
All the world's news, one API
Access a global news database with live updates and extensive historical archives to power your business applications and use cases. It is the news data infrastructure thousands of developers rely on in 2026.
Response performance
Low response time is a core priority. We continuously tune our infrastructure to keep latency minimal on every request, at any scale.
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Retrieve API results in JSON format through standard HTTP GET requests from any programming language. Integration is straightforward: send a request, receive results, parse the JSON response, and implement the data in your application.
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Advanced Request Options
Build precise queries with logical search operators, then refine every request with a wide range of optional parameters.
Search operators
Perform advanced searches using search operators such as AND, OR, and NOT to combine, separate, and exclude keywords.
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Access full content
Go beyond headlines and snippets and retrieve the full text of each article. Full content comes standard on every paid plan, ideal for analysis, summarization, and AI pipelines.
View plansIntegrate GNews API in minutes
GNews API fits seamlessly into your development workflow. With official libraries and easy-to-follow examples, you can start fetching news data in your favorite language with just a few lines of code.
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See what the press is saying about your brand and respond quickly to emerging narratives.
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Feed live and historical headlines into trading signals, risk models, and market analysis.
AI, LLMs, and RAG
Ground your models and agents in fresh, factual news for retrieval and summarization.
News aggregation apps
Build readers, newsletters, and dashboards on a single global news feed.
Academic research
Study media trends and narratives with years of structured, searchable archives.
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