Our API directory now includes 81 news APIs. The newest is the New York Times Events API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Digg API. We list 69 Digg mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of news APIs.


In terms of the technical details, REST and JSON lead the way. There are 65 news REST APIs and 7 news SOAP APIs. In a change from most categories, JSON is the leading data format used by news APIs. Our directory lists 57 news JSON APIs and 53 news XML APIs.

The most common tags within news are 13 news search APIs, 10 news reference APIs and 6 government news APIs

On the mashup side, we list 371 news mashups. We named Time Machine as mashup of the day in January.
For reference, here is a list of all 81 news APIs.
10×10 API: Photo and news analysis service
Associated Press API: News database
BetaSignal API: News aggregator
Bordom RPC (BRAX) API: Crowd-sourced strange news service
Chronicling America API: Archive of US newspapers
Civicboom API: News crowdsourcing platform
ClearForest Semantic Web Services1 API: Natural language processing tools
Daylife API: Online News Service
Digest Report API: Independent journalism website
Digg API: Community driven news links and ratings
Dipity API: Interactive timeline creation services
DocumentCloud API: Upload and Share Documents
El Nuevo Dia APEX API: Online newspaper
EveryBlock API: Hyperlocal data and news aggregator
FanFeedr Sports News API: Sports news and information service
Feedzilla API: News feed aggregator
Findory API: Personalized news aggregation
Foxcentral News Service API: Programming language news service
Fwix API: Geolocation and location-based content service
Fwix Local News API: Local news service
Fwix Wire API: Local news gathering service
Globedia API: News aggregation service
Golem.de API: News article discovery service
Guardian API: UK newspaper
High Gear Media API: Automotive reviews and news
HNSearch API: Hacker News search engine
iMente API: News search and aggregation service
Mapping L.A. API: Geographic boundary service
Moreover API: News delivery
myFeedz API: Blog services
MyNewsdesk API: MyNewsdesk – The News Exchange Site
n0tice API: Public notice board
Nevistas News API: Hotel and Travel News Search Service
New York Times Article Search API: New York Times article archives
New York Times Best Sellers API: New York Times best-seller lists data
New York Times Campaign Finance API: U.S. campaign finance data
New York Times Community API: Access user-generated NYTimes.com content
New York Times Congress API: US Congress historical data
New York Times Districts API: Political districts service
New York Times Events API: Event listing service
New York Times Most Popular API: News popularity service
New York Times Movie Reviews API: NY Times newspaper movie review archives
New York Times Newswire API: All recent New York Times articles in summary
New York Times NY State Legislature API: NY State legislative member information
New York Times TimesPeople API: New York Times service for TimesPeople data
New York Times TimesTags API: News tagging service
NewsCloud API: Social news service
NewsCred Platform API: News syndication service
Newsfeed Lab API: News feed and activity stream service
NewsIsFree API: Online news aggregation
NewsKnowledge API: News and business information service
NPR API: US National Public Radio
ODP Search API: Article and journal search and aggregator
Outside.in API: Hyperlocal news and information aggregator
Patch API: Community-specific news and information service
Press Association Sport API: UK sports data service
Recorded Future News Analytics API: Query News Analytics Database
Reddit API: Social news service
Reuters Spotlight API: Reuters.com content service
SemanticWire API: Semantic news reader service
Silo Breaker API: News and information service
Spinn3r API: Blog search index service
Stocklytics Stock News API: Stock news service
Syndic8 API: News feed aggregation services
Tailrank API: Blog search and news aggregation service
Univision API: Spanish language content provider
Unofficial Hacker News API: News and comment service
USA Today API: News service
USA Today Best-Selling Books API: Best-Selling Books Information Service
USA Today Book Reviews API: Book review service
USA Today Movie Reviews API: Movie review service
USA Today Music Reviews API: Music reviews service
USA Today Snapshots API: Statistics
USA Today Sports Salaries API: Sports information service
Voter Guide Toolkit API: Issue and candidate support information service
vtriggers API: Realtime cloud publishing platform
Wellynews API: Wellington New Zealand news search
XigniteNews API: U.S. financial, economic and business news
XigniteOutlook API: US financial market daily news updates
XigniteReleases API: Company news releases
YourStreet API: Geocoding news article service





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2 Responses to “81 News APIs: Digg, FanFeedr and ClearForest”
at 12:22 pm
You have missed one news api: http://topic.io. This service retrieves news from topics defined by users themselves
at 12:48 pm
Aha! We do have Topics.io in our directory:
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/topics.io
Previously it wasn’t tagged news. This is fixed now. So, make that 82 News APIs. :)