Mediastack

Live News API for Global Coverage & Blog Articles

Mediastack is a scalable REST API delivering worldwide news, headlines, and blog articles in real-time. Supporting 7,500+ news sources, it delivers instant access to live news data from 50+ countries in 13 languages in a lightweight JSON format.

Real-time news updates

Implement live news data feeds, headlines, and trends updated as often as every single minute. This ensures your application always displays the most current breaking news events from around the globe.

Massive source coverage

Access structured and readable news data from over 7,500 reputable international news publishers and blogs. The API aggregates content from 50+ countries and 13 languages, ensuring diversity and credibility in your content.

Historical & news archives

Beyond live headlines, query years of historical news archives to perform powerful data analysis and insight generation. This feature allows you to back-test trends or visualize the evolution of specific news topics over time.

Scalable JSON infrastructure

Built on scalable cloud infrastructure, the API delivers news results in a lightweight and easy-to-use JSON format. It features CDN-accelerated endpoints and optimized caching to ensure fast response times and high uptime worldwide.

7,500+

News Sources

50+

Countries Covered

13

Languages Supported

100

Free Monthly Requests

Flexible Plan for Every
Stage of Growth

All news sources

Live news data

Delayed news data

All 13 languages

HTTPS Encryption

Historical data access

Commercial use allowed

Standard support included

Custom solutions / features

Free

100 Total Requests.

Starter

10,000 Request/mo.

$24.99/mo.

Professional

50,000 Request/mo.

$99.99/mo.

Enterprise

250,000 Request/mo.

$249.99/mo.

Custom

Need more? Contact sales for custom needs

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What is Mediastack?

Mediastack is a scalable REST API that delivers real-time news, headlines, and blog articles from over 7,500 sources worldwide in a simple JSON format.

Is there a free plan available?

Yes, Mediastack offers a free plan that provides 100 API requests per month, giving you instant access to live news data from 50+ countries for testing and small projects.

Which languages and countries are supported?

The API covers news from over 50 countries and is available in 13 different languages, allowing you to access diverse content from international publishers.

Can I access historical news data?

Yes, in addition to real-time live news, Mediastack provides access to historical news archives, allowing you to query past articles for analysis and trend tracking.

What kind of filters does the Mediastack API offer?

You can filter news results by specific keywords, dates, countries, languages, sources, and categories (e.g., business, sports, technology) to get exactly the content you need.

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See Mediastack in Action

See how Mediastack powers news aggregators, brand monitoring tools, and financial analytics platforms with automated, real-time news feeds.

Mediastack Documentation

Everything you need to integrate in minutes:
quickstart guides, code examples, and full API
reference for JSON responses.

Trusted by Developers
Worldwide

“The live news feed is incredibly fast; we get headlines immediately after they are published.”

Anna Northcott
Head of Marketing

“We replaced our custom web scraper with Mediastack and saved hundreds of engineering hours.”

Tom Geary
Product Manager

“Historical data access was key for our trend analysis project—accessing years of news was seamless.”

Chris Sagger
CTO

“Great filtering options. We can easily isolate sports news from specific countries without a problem.”

Paul Wilson
Product Manager

“The JSON response is clean and standardized, making it easy to display news from thousands of different sources.”

Sarah Scammell
Head of Product

Mediastack