Publishers and feeds
Newspapers, broadcasters and Hacker News
APIs and feeds from news publishers themselves: newspapers and broadcasters such as the BBC, The Guardian and The New York Times, and the stories and comments of Hacker News. Use them to show headlines, search a publisher's archive or follow a community.
BBC News Feeds
The BBC publishes RSS feeds of its news sections, such as world, UK, business, politics, technology, science, health and entertainment, plus regional news. Each feed lists the latest headlines with a short summary, a link to the ...
Hacker News API
The official Hacker News API makes the stories, comments, polls and users of Hacker News available in near real time, through Firebase. Get the lists of top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job stories, then fetch each item by its ...
Hacker News Search API (Algolia)
Algolia's Hacker News Search API adds full-text search to Hacker News: find stories, comments and polls by keyword, sorted by relevance or by date, and filter by tags, author, points or creation date. Items and user profiles are ...
hnrss
hnrss makes custom feeds of Hacker News: the front page, new posts, Ask HN and Show HN, jobs, a user's posts or replies, and searches by keyword, filtered by points or comments, for example to follow every new post about a ...
Kagi News
Kagi News publishes its daily news summaries as open JSON files: kite.json lists the categories, and each category file (such as world.json or tech.json) holds the day's stories, each clustered from many sources with a summary ...
rss2json
rss2json turns any RSS or Atom feed into JSON, so a web page can show the latest items of a news site or blog without parsing XML. Requests are GET calls with the feed address in the rss_url parameter, and the JSON answers are ...
The Guardian Open Platform
The Guardian Open Platform gives access to Guardian content going back to 1999: search articles by keyword, section, tag and date, and get the full article text, tags, images and metadata. Other endpoints list sections, tags and ...
The New York Times APIs
The New York Times offers a set of free APIs: Article Search for articles back to 1851, Top Stories per section, Most Popular articles, the Books API with the bestseller lists, the Times Wire for the newest articles, the Archive ...
Compare the news publisher APIs and feeds
| Service | API key | Formats | Free use |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBC News Feeds | Not needed | RSS | Free for personal, non-commercial use, as set out in the BBC's terms. |
| Hacker News API | Not needed | JSON | Free. |
| Hacker News Search API (Algolia) | Not needed | JSON | Free, no key needed, up to 10,000 requests an hour per IP address. |
| hnrss | Not needed | JSON, XML, RSS | Free, no key needed. |
| Kagi News | Not needed | JSON | Free, no key needed, for non-commercial use with attribution (CC BY-NC); commercial use needs a licence from Kagi. |
| rss2json | Not needed | JSON, RSS | Free, no key needed; a free account key unlocks the item count and sort order, and paid plans raise the daily and per-minute limits. |
| The Guardian Open Platform | Needed, free | JSON, XML | Free developer key for non-commercial use, with a daily limit; commercial use by agreement with the Guardian. |
| The New York Times APIs | Needed, free | JSON | Free, with a free API key and a daily request limit. |
Questions
Which free news publisher APIs and feeds work without an API key?
BBC News Feeds, Hacker News API, Hacker News Search API (Algolia), hnrss, Kagi News and rss2json work without a key, according to their documentation. Most keyless services ask you to keep the number of requests reasonable, and some ask for a User-Agent that names your app.
Are these news publisher APIs and feeds really free?
The services here can be used without paying, at least on a free plan or free tier, often with limits such as a number of requests per day or non-commercial use only. The table above quotes what each service says about its free use; check the provider's own terms before you rely on it.
How up to date is this list?
The address of every service is checked about once a week, and services that stop working or stop being free are removed. This list last changed on November 8th, 2026.