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Newscatcher

Newscatcher is a news search and aggregation API platform that provides access to over 120,000 news sources worldwide with full-text search, NLP enrichment, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and automated clustering. The platform offers three core products — a News API for structured article retrieval, a Web Search (CatchAll) API for recall-first AI-grade web search, and a Local News API for hyper-local geographic news coverage. All APIs return clean, enriched, and deduplication-ready data designed for enterprise risk teams, financial services, AI platforms, and media intelligence workflows. The company is backed by Y Combinator (S22) and holds ISO certifications and SOC2 Type II compliance.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Newscatcher the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — Newscatcher scores 59.2/100 (developing), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 59.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Newscatcher

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Newscatcher. 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 16

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.

Newscatcher AggregationCount API

Operations to aggregate news counts.

Newscatcher Authors API

Operations to search by author.

Newscatcher BreakingNews API

Operations to retrieve breaking news articles.

Newscatcher Datasets API

Operations to create and manage datasets of entities. A dataset is a named collection of entities — think of it as a watchlist or portfolio. Connect a dataset to a job via `conn...

Newscatcher Entities API

Operations to create, update, and delete company entities. Entities are the building blocks of Company Watchlist. Each entity represents a company (or person) you want to track....

Newscatcher Jobs API

Operations to create, monitor, and retrieve job results.

Newscatcher LatestHeadlines API

Operations to retrieve local news latest headlines. Includes both standard location filtering and advanced GeoNames filtering.

Newscatcher Meta API

Operations to check API health and version.

Newscatcher Monitors API

Operations to create, operate and retrieve monitor results.

Newscatcher Projects API

Operations to create, organize, and manage projects. A project is a named container for jobs, monitors, and datasets. Group related resources by use case, team, or client, and s...

Newscatcher Search API

Operations to search for local news articles. Includes both standard location filtering and advanced GeoNames filtering.

Newscatcher SearchBy API

Operations to search local news by link, ID or RSS GUID.

Newscatcher SearchByLink API

Operations to search by link or ID.

Newscatcher Sources API

Operations to retrieve local news sources.

Newscatcher Subscription API

Operations to get subscription info.

Newscatcher Webhooks API

Operations to create and manage reusable webhook endpoints. A webhook is a named HTTP endpoint that receives a POST notification when a job or monitor completes. Create webhooks...

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

Pricing 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.

Newscatcher Rate Limits

11 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

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.

Newscatcher Context

34 classes · 36 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Newscatcher API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Newscatcher Article

31 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Newscatcher Search Response

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 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.

Newscatcher Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Newscatcher Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Newscatcher Agentic Access

79 operations · 48 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

79 operations · 48 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Newscatcher — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

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 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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