aid: mediastack name: Mediastack description: >- Mediastack is a free and paid REST API by apilayer for live, historical, and blog news articles aggregated from more than 7,500 publishers across 50+ countries and 13 languages. It exposes a /v1/news endpoint for keyword-, source-, country-, language-, category-, and date-filtered search, and a /v1/sources endpoint for browsing the underlying publisher catalog. url: https://mediastack.com humanURL: https://mediastack.com baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1 deliveryModel: model: unknown open_source: unknown commercial: true callable_host: true label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record confidence: low source: - openapi - pricing - repository-unlicensed generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived accessModel: pricing: freemium onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: false label: Freemium · Self-serve signup confidence: medium source: - plans - authentication - security generated: '2026-09-03' method: derived image: https://mediastack.com/site_images/mediastack_logo_dark.svg specificationVersion: '0.23' created: '2026-05-28' modified: '2026-05-30' x-source: public-apis/public-apis x-category: News x-tier: 2 x-tier-reason: company-tiered-commercial-news-aggregation x-docs-platform: redoc x-docs-platform-confidence: medium x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04 tags: - News - News Aggregation - Media - APILayer - Public APIs tags_raw: - News - News Aggregation - Media - Apilayer - Public APIs apis: - aid: mediastack:mediastack-news-api name: Mediastack News API description: Live and historical news articles from global publishers. humanURL: https://mediastack.com/documentation baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1 tags: - News properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/mediastack-news-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-documentation - type: APIReference url: https://mediastack.com/documentation - type: GettingStarted url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#quickstart - type: Authentication url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#authentication - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-news-article-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-source-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-pagination-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-error-schema.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/mediastack-news-article-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/mediastack-source-structure.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-search-news-example.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-list-sources-example.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-historical-news-example.json - aid: mediastack:mediastack-sources-api name: Mediastack Sources API description: Discovery of supported news sources, publishers, and blogs. humanURL: https://mediastack.com/documentation baseURL: https://api.mediastack.com/v1 tags: - Sources properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/mediastack-sources-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.apilayer.com/mediastack/docs/api-documentation - type: APIReference url: https://mediastack.com/documentation - type: GettingStarted url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#quickstart - type: Authentication url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#authentication - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-news-article-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-source-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-pagination-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/mediastack-error-schema.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/mediastack-news-article-structure.json - type: JSONStructure url: json-structure/mediastack-source-structure.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-search-news-example.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-list-sources-example.json - type: Examples url: examples/mediastack-historical-news-example.json common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/mediastack-capability-edges.yml name: Mediastack Business Capability Map - type: IssueTracker url: https://github.com/apilayer/mediastack/issues - type: PostmanWorkspace url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/mediastack/overview - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/mediastack-agentic-access.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/mediastack-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/mediastack-authentication.yml - type: Website url: https://mediastack.com - type: Portal url: https://mediastack.com/dashboard - type: Signup url: https://mediastack.com/signup/free - type: Pricing url: https://mediastack.com/product - type: TermsOfService url: https://mediastack.com/terms - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://mediastack.com/privacy - type: Support url: https://mediastack.com/contact - type: FAQ url: https://mediastack.com/documentation#faq - type: GitHubRepository url: https://github.com/apilayer/mediastack - type: PublicAPIsListing url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/mediastack-context.jsonld - type: SpectralRules url: rules/mediastack-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/mediastack-vocabulary.yml - type: Plans url: plans/mediastack-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/mediastack-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/mediastack-finops.yml - type: Features data: - name: Live News Data description: Real-time aggregation of articles from 7,500+ global news publishers. - name: Historical News description: Date-bounded lookups of past articles via the date query parameter (paid plans). - name: Multi-Language Coverage description: Articles indexed across 13 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic. - name: Multi-Country Coverage description: Filter by 50+ country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. - name: Category Filtering description: Restrict to general, business, entertainment, health, science, sports, or technology. - name: Source Filtering description: Include/exclude lists of specific publishers via comma-separated IDs. - name: Keyword Search description: Full-text search across article title, description, and body. - name: Publisher Catalog description: Browse the /sources catalog by country, language, or category. - name: HTTPS Encryption description: Encrypted transport on Standard plan and above. - name: Commercial Use License description: Permitted on Standard plan and above. - type: UseCases data: - name: News Aggregator Apps description: Power consumer-facing news readers with category- and language-filtered feeds. - name: Media Monitoring description: Track brand, executive, product, or competitor mentions across global press. - name: Investor Research description: Stream business-tagged headlines into trading dashboards. - name: AI Training Corpora description: Sample current-events text for fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation. - name: Trend Analysis description: Tally publication volume and sentiment around recurring keywords. - name: Newsletter Curation description: Auto-generate daily digests by country, language, or topic. - type: Integrations data: - name: apilayer Marketplace description: >- Mediastack is one of several APIs in the apilayer marketplace alongside marketstack, currencylayer, weatherstack, and ipapi. - name: REST + JSON description: Standard HTTPS+JSON makes it trivial to integrate with any HTTP client library. - name: Postman / Insomnia description: Manual import of the OpenAPI spec into common API clients. - type: Solutions data: - name: Free Plan description: Evaluation tier, 100 requests/month, HTTP only, no historical data, no commercial use. - name: Standard Plan description: $24.99/month, 10k requests, HTTPS, historical data, commercial use. - name: Professional Plan description: $99.99/month, 50k requests, lower overage rate. - name: Business Plan description: $249.99/month, 250k requests, lowest published overage rate. - name: Enterprise Plan description: Custom volume, platinum support, custom solutions. maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com