Retrieve latest headlines

curl --request GET \
  --url https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines \
  --header 'x-api-token: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-token': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "x-api-token: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-token", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-token"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "status": "<string>",
  "total_hits": 123,
  "page": 123,
  "total_pages": 123,
  "page_size": 123,
  "articles": [],
  "user_input": {}
}

{
  "message": "Invalid JSON in request body",
  "status_code": 400,
  "status": "Bad request"
}

{
  "message": "The 'x-api-token' parameter has an invalid value. Please provide a valid API key.",
  "status_code": 401,
  "status": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "message": "Your plan request date range cannot be greater than 400 days",
  "status_code": 403,
  "status": "Forbidden"
}

{
  "message": "Request timed out after 30 seconds",
  "status_code": 408,
  "status": "Request timeout"
}

{
  "message": "Invalid date format",
  "status_code": 422,
  "status": "Validation error"
}

{
  "message": "Max API requests concurrency reached",
  "status_code": 429,
  "status": "Too many requests"
}

Internal Server Error

GET

api

latest_headlines

Retrieve latest headlines

curl --request GET \
  --url https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines \
  --header 'x-api-token: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-api-token': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "x-api-token: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-token", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://v3-api.newscatcherapi.com/api/latest_headlines")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["x-api-token"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "status": "<string>",
  "total_hits": 123,
  "page": 123,
  "total_pages": 123,
  "page_size": 123,
  "articles": [],
  "user_input": {}
}

{
  "message": "Invalid JSON in request body",
  "status_code": 400,
  "status": "Bad request"
}

{
  "message": "The 'x-api-token' parameter has an invalid value. Please provide a valid API key.",
  "status_code": 401,
  "status": "Unauthorized"
}

{
  "message": "Your plan request date range cannot be greater than 400 days",
  "status_code": 403,
  "status": "Forbidden"
}

{
  "message": "Request timed out after 30 seconds",
  "status_code": 408,
  "status": "Request timeout"
}

{
  "message": "Invalid date format",
  "status_code": 422,
  "status": "Validation error"
}

{
  "message": "Max API requests concurrency reached",
  "status_code": 429,
  "status": "Too many requests"
}

Internal Server Error

Authorizations

x-api-token

string

header

required

API Key to authenticate requests.

To access the API, include your API key in the x-api-token header. To obtain your API key, complete the form or contact us directly.

Query Parameters

when

string

default:7d

The time period for which you want to get the latest headlines.

Format examples:

7d: Last seven days
30d: Last 30 days
1h: Last hour
24h: Last 24 hours

Example:

"7d"

by_parse_date

boolean

default:false

If true, the from_ and to_ parameters use article parse dates instead of published dates. Additionally, the parse_date variable is added to the output for each article object.

In the Aggregation count endpoint, the articles are also counted per interval by their parse date.

Example:

true

sort_by

enum<string>

default:relevancy

The sorting order of the results. Possible values are:

relevancy: The most relevant results first.
date: The most recently published results first.
rank: The results from the highest-ranked sources first.

Available options:

relevancy,

date,

rank

Example:

"date"

lang

string

The language(s) of the search. The only accepted format is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code. To select multiple languages, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see Enumerated parameters > Language.

Example:

"en,es"

not_lang

string

The language(s) to exclude from the search. The accepted format is the two-letter ISO 639-1 code. To exclude multiple languages, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see Enumerated parameters > Language.

Example:

"fr,de"

countries

string

The countries where the news publisher is located. The accepted format is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. To select multiple countries, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see Enumerated parameters > Country.

Example:

"US,CA"

not_countries

string

The publisher location countries to exclude from the search. The accepted format is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. To exclude multiple countries, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see Enumerated parameters > Country.

Example:

"UK,FR"

predefined_sources

string

Predefined top news sources per country.

Format: start with the word top, followed by the number of desired sources, and then the two-letter country code ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Multiple countries with the number of top sources can be specified as a comma-separated string.

Example:

"top 50 US, top 20 GB"

sources

string

One or more news sources to narrow down the search. The format must be a domain URL. Subdomains, such as finance.yahoo.com, are also acceptable.To specify multiple sources, use a comma-separated string.

Example:

"nytimes.com,finance.yahoo.com"

not_sources

string

The news sources to exclude from the search. To exclude multiple sources, use a comma-separated string.

Example:

"cnn.com,wsj.com"

not_author_name

string

The list of author names to exclude from your search. To exclude articles by specific authors, use a comma-separated string.

Example:

"John Doe, Jane Doe"

ranked_only

boolean

default:true

If true, limits the search to sources ranked in the top 1 million online websites. If false, includes unranked sources which are assigned a rank of 999999.

Example:

true

is_headline

boolean

If true, only returns articles that were posted on the home page of a given news domain.

Example:

true

is_opinion

boolean

If true, returns only opinion pieces. If false, excludes opinion-based articles and returns news only.

Example:

true

is_paid_content

boolean

Filters articles by content completeness.

If false, returns only articles for which full-text content is publicly available. If true, returns all indexed articles, including those where only partial content is publicly available (e.g., headlines, summaries, or preview paragraphs from paywalled sources).

Note: NewsCatcher indexes content that is publicly accessible and available for crawling in accordance with publisher access controls (e.g., robots.txt and similar mechanisms). For paywalled sources, only content that publishers make publicly available (such as headlines, summaries, or preview text) is indexed. NewsCatcher does not bypass paywalls, authentication systems, or other technical access restrictions.

Example:

false

parent_url

string

The categorical URL(s) to filter your search. To filter your search by multiple categorical URLs, use a comma-separated string.

Example:

"wsj.com/politics,wsj.com/tech"

all_links

string

The complete URL(s) mentioned in the article. For multiple URLs, use a comma-separated string.

For more details, see Search by URL.

Example:

"https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report,https://www.stateof.ai"

all_domain_links

string

The domain(s) mentioned in the article. For multiple domains, use a comma-separated string.

For more details, see Search by URL.

Example:

"who.int,nih.gov"

all_links_text

string

The text content of links mentioned in the article. Searches for links where the anchor text contains the specified terms. For multiple terms, use a comma-separated string.

Note: When this parameter is used, the response includes the all_links_data field with detailed link information.

To learn more, see Search by URL.

Example:

"Nvidia,Tesla"

word_count_min

integer

The minimum number of words an article must contain. To be used for avoiding articles with small content.

Required range: x >= 0

Example:

300

word_count_max

integer

The maximum number of words an article can contain. To be used for avoiding articles with large content.

Required range: x >= 0

Example:

1000

page

integer

default:1

The page number to scroll through the results. Use for pagination, as a single API response can return up to 1,000 articles.

For details, see Retrieve large datasets

Required range: x >= 1

Example:

2

page_size

integer

default:100

The number of articles to return per page.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 1000

Example:

50

clustering_enabled

boolean

default:false

Determines whether to group similar articles into clusters. If true, the API returns clustered results.

To learn more, see Clustering news articles.

Example:

true

clustering_variable

enum<string>

default:content

deprecated

Deprecated from January 1, 2026 onward. For articles published on or after 2026-01-01, this parameter is ignored. Clustering always uses a combined title + content embedding generated by the Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B model, regardless of the value supplied.

For articles published before 2026-01-01, this parameter remains functional and specifies which part of the article to use for clustering:

content: Uses the full article content (default).
title: Uses only the article title.
summary: Uses the article summary.

To learn more, see Clustering news articles.

Available options:

content,

title,

summary

Example:

"content"

clustering_threshold

number<float>

default:0.7

Sets the similarity threshold for grouping articles into clusters. A lower value creates more inclusive clusters, while a higher value requires greater similarity between articles.

For example:

0.6: Results in larger, more diverse clusters.
0.7: Balances cluster size and article similarity (default).
0.8: Creates smaller, tightly related clusters.

To learn more, see Clustering news articles.

Required range: x <= 1

Example:

0.7

include_translation_fields

boolean

default:false

If true, includes English translation fields in the response (title_translated_en, content_translated_en, and NLP translation fields).

Example:

true

include_nlp_data

boolean

default:false

If true, includes an NLP object for each article in the response. This object provides results of NLP analysis, including article theme, summary, sentiment, tags, and named entity recognition if available.

Note: NLP data is only available for articles indexed from July 2023 onward. For articles indexed before July 2023, the nlp field is returned as an empty object {}.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Example:

true

has_nlp

boolean

default:false

If true, filters results to include only articles that have NLP data.

Note: NLP data is only available for articles indexed from July 2023 onward. Applying this filter to a date range that predates July 2023 returns zero results.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Example:

true

theme

string

Filters articles based on their general topic, as determined by NLP analysis. To select multiple themes, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Available options: Business, Economics, Entertainment, Finance, Health, Politics, Science, Sports, Tech, Crime, Financial Crime, Lifestyle, Automotive, Travel, Weather, General.

Example:

"Finance,Tech"

not_theme

string

Inverse of the theme parameter. Excludes articles based on their general topic, as determined by NLP analysis. To exclude multiple themes, use a comma-separated string.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Example:

"Crime,Sports"

content_type

string

Filters articles by content type: the kind of page an article is, as determined by NLP analysis. To select multiple content types, use a comma-separated string. Values are case-insensitive, and an article is returned if it matches any of them.

Available options: news_report, analysis, interview, opinion, press_release, listicle, service, commerce, review, autogen, seo_spam, obituary, ugc, non_article. Shortcuts: news selects news_report, analysis, and interview; all applies no filter.

Note: Articles without a content type label are excluded whenever content_type is set. An unknown value returns a 422 error.

To learn more, see Content types.

Example:

"news"

ORG_entity_name

string

Filters articles that mention specific organization names, as identified by NLP analysis.

To specify multiple organizations, use AND, OR, NOT operators, and \" escape literals for exact matches.
To search in translations, combine with the translation options of the search_in parameter (e.g., title_content_translated).

To learn more, see Search by entity.

Example:

"\"Apple Inc\" OR Microsoft"

PER_entity_name

string

Filters articles that mention specific person names, as identified by NLP analysis.

To specify multiple names, use AND, OR, NOT operators, and \" escape literals for exact matches.
To search in translations, combine with the translation options of the search_in parameter (e.g., title_content_translated).

To learn more, see Search by entity.

Example:

"\"Elon Musk\" OR \"Jeff Bezos\""

LOC_entity_name

string

Filters articles that mention specific location names, as identified by NLP analysis.

To specify multiple locations, use AND, OR, NOT operators, and \" escape literals for exact matches.
To search in translations, combine with the translation options of the search_in parameter (e.g., title_content_translated).

To learn more, see Search by entity.

Example:

"\"San Francisco\" OR \"New York City\""

MISC_entity_name

string

Filters articles that mention other named entities not falling under person, organization, or location categories. Includes events, nationalities, products, works of art, and more.

To specify multiple entities, use AND, OR, NOT operators, and \" escape literals for exact matches.
To search in translations, combine with the translation options of the search_in parameter (e.g., title_content_translated).

To learn more, see Search by entity.

Example:

"AWS OR \"Microsoft Azure\""

title_sentiment_min

number<float>

Filters articles based on the minimum sentiment score of their titles.

Range is -1.0 to 1.0, where:

Negative values indicate negative sentiment.
Positive values indicate positive sentiment.
Values close to 0 indicate neutral sentiment.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Required range: -1 <= x <= 1

Example:

-0.5

title_sentiment_max

number<float>

Filters articles based on the maximum sentiment score of their titles.

Range is -1.0 to 1.0, where:

Negative values indicate negative sentiment.
Positive values indicate positive sentiment.
Values close to 0 indicate neutral sentiment.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Required range: -1 <= x <= 1

Example:

0.5

content_sentiment_min

number<float>

Filters articles based on the minimum sentiment score of their content.

Range is -1.0 to 1.0, where:

Negative values indicate negative sentiment.
Positive values indicate positive sentiment.
Values close to 0 indicate neutral sentiment.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Required range: -1 <= x <= 1

Example:

-0.5

content_sentiment_max

number<float>

Filters articles based on the maximum sentiment score of their content.

Range is -1.0 to 1.0, where:

Negative values indicate negative sentiment.
Positive values indicate positive sentiment.
Values close to 0 indicate neutral sentiment.

To learn more, see NLP Enrichments.

Required range: -1 <= x <= 1

Example:

0.5

iptc_tags

string

Filters articles based on International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) media topic tags. To specify multiple IPTC tags, use a comma-separated string of tag IDs.

Note: The iptc_tags parameter is only available in the v3_nlp_iptc_tags subscription plan.

To learn more, see IPTC Media Topic NewsCodes.

Example:

"20000199,20000209"

not_iptc_tags

string

Inverse of the iptc_tags parameter. Excludes articles based on International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) media topic tags. To specify multiple IPTC tags to exclude, use a comma-separated string of tag IDs.

Note: The not_iptc_tags parameter is only available in the v3_nlp_iptc_tags subscription plan.

To learn more, see IPTC Media Topic NewsCodes.

Example:

"20000205,20000209"

iab_tags

string

Filters articles based on Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) content categories. These tags provide a standardized taxonomy for digital advertising content categorization. To specify multiple IAB categories, use a comma-separated string.

Note: The iab_tags parameter is only available in the v3_nlp_iptc_tags subscription plan.

To learn more, see the IAB Content taxonomy.

Example:

"Business,Events"

not_iab_tags

string

Inverse of the iab_tags parameter. Excludes articles based on Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) content categories. These tags provide a standardized taxonomy for digital advertising content categorization. To specify multiple IAB categories to exclude, use a comma-separated string.

Note: The not_iab_tags parameter is only available in the v3_nlp_iptc_tags subscription plan.

To learn more, see the IAB Content taxonomy.

Example:

"Agriculture,Metals"

custom_tags

string

Filters articles based on provided taxonomy that is tailored to your specific needs and is accessible only with your API key. To specify tags, use the following pattern:

custom_tags.taxonomy=Tag1,Tag2, where taxonomy is the taxonomy name and Tag1,Tag2 is a comma-separated list of tag names.

Example: custom_tags.industry="Manufacturing,Logistics"

To learn more, see the Custom tags.

Example:

"Tag1,Tag2"

robots_compliant

boolean

If true, returns only articles that comply with the publisher's robots.txt rules. If false, returns only articles that do not comply with robots.txt rules. If omitted, returns all articles regardless of compliance status.

Example:

true

Response

A successful response containing articles that match the search criteria. When clustering_enabled is true, returns a Clustered Articles Response. Otherwise, returns a Search Response.

Search Response
Clustered Articles Response

The response model for the search requests applies to the Search, Latest Headlines, Search by link, and Authors endpoints. Response field behavior:

Required fields are guaranteed to be present and non-null.
Optional fields may be null or undefined if the data point is not presented or couldn't be extracted during processing.
To access article properties in the articles response array, use array index notation. For example, articles[n].title, where n is the zero-based index of the article object (0, 1, 2, etc.).
The nlp property within the article object articles[n].nlp is only available with NLP-enabled subscription plans.

status

string

required

The status of the response.

total_hits

integer

required

The total number of articles matching the search criteria.

page

integer

required

The current page number of the results.

total_pages

integer

required

The total number of pages available for the given search criteria.

page_size

integer

required

The number of articles per page.

articles

Article Object · object[]

A list of articles matching the search criteria.

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user_input

object

The user input parameters for the request.

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