News API Overview
Learn what News API is and how can we use it.
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News is a way to look at what’s happening around the world. The primary function of news is to empower people with information. As developers, we can empower others by developing applications and websites that provide our audience with the information they need. The News API can help us achieve this goal.
What is News API?
The News API is a basic HTTP REST API that allows us to get articles and breaking news from across the web. We can search for a trending topic, such as bitcoin, or anything else of interest. The News API provides articles from various sources from 20 different countries in 14 different languages.
Uses of News API
With the News API, we can:
- Search through millions of articles.
- Obtain headlines for a country, a specific category within a country, a single source, or multiple sources.
- Find information about the publishers and sources available on the News API.