Mediastack
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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Mediastack the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Mediastack scores 62.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Mediastack
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Mediastack. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 2
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Mediastack News API
Live and historical news articles from global publishers.
Mediastack Sources API
Discovery of supported news sources, publishers, and blogs.
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Mediastack News API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Mediastack Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Mediastack Finops
FINOPSFeatures 10
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Live News Data
Real-time aggregation of articles from 7,500+ global news publishers.
Historical News
Date-bounded lookups of past articles via the date query parameter (paid plans).
Multi-Language Coverage
Articles indexed across 13 languages including English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic.
Multi-Country Coverage
Filter by 50+ country codes using ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
Category Filtering
Restrict to general, business, entertainment, health, science, sports, or technology.
Source Filtering
Include/exclude lists of specific publishers via comma-separated IDs.
Keyword Search
Full-text search across article title, description, and body.
Publisher Catalog
Browse the /sources catalog by country, language, or category.
HTTPS Encryption
Encrypted transport on Standard plan and above.
Commercial Use License
Permitted on Standard plan and above.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Mediastack Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Mediastack API Rules
SPECTRALMediastack API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
JSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Mediastack News Article Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMediastack Source Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
News Aggregator Apps
Power consumer-facing news readers with category- and language-filtered feeds.
Media Monitoring
Track brand, executive, product, or competitor mentions across global press.
Investor Research
Stream business-tagged headlines into trading dashboards.
AI Training Corpora
Sample current-events text for fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation.
Trend Analysis
Tally publication volume and sentiment around recurring keywords.
Newsletter Curation
Auto-generate daily digests by country, language, or topic.
Integrations 3
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
apilayer Marketplace
Mediastack is one of several APIs in the apilayer marketplace alongside marketstack, currencylayer, weatherstack, and ipapi.
REST + JSON
Standard HTTPS+JSON makes it trivial to integrate with any HTTP client library.
Postman / Insomnia
Manual import of the OpenAPI spec into common API clients.
Solutions 5
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Free Plan
Evaluation tier, 100 requests/month, HTTP only, no historical data, no commercial use.
Standard Plan
$24.99/month, 10k requests, HTTPS, historical data, commercial use.
Professional Plan
$99.99/month, 50k requests, lower overage rate.
Business Plan
$249.99/month, 250k requests, lowest published overage rate.
Enterprise Plan
Custom volume, platinum support, custom solutions.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Mediastack — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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