openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: World News API
  description: |
    The World News API provides access to thousands of news sources in over
    90 languages from 228+ countries with semantic tagging. This minimal
    OpenAPI definition documents the public REST endpoints listed in the
    World News API documentation.
  version: "1.0"
  contact:
    name: World News API
    url: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/
servers:
  - url: https://api.worldnewsapi.com
    description: World News API base URL
x-generated-from: https://worldnewsapi.com/docs/
x-generated-by: claude-crawl-2026-05-08
tags:
  - name: News
  - name: Sources
  - name: Geo
paths:
  /search-news:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Search News
      description: Search and filter news by text, date, location, category, language, and more.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /top-news:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Top News
      description: Retrieve top news for a given source country and language.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /retrieve-news:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Retrieve News
      description: Retrieve news article(s) by id.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /retrieve-front-page:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Newspaper Front Pages
      description: Retrieve newspaper front page images and metadata.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /extract-news:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Extract News
      description: Extract a news article from a webpage URL.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /extract-news-links:
    get:
      tags: [News]
      summary: Extract News Links
      description: Extract news article links from a website.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /search-news-sources:
    get:
      tags: [Sources]
      summary: Search News Sources
      description: Search news sources / publishers.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /suggest-news-source:
    post:
      tags: [Sources]
      summary: Suggest News Source
      description: Suggest a new news source for inclusion in the index.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /feed.rss:
    get:
      tags: [Sources]
      summary: Website to RSS Feed
      description: Convert any website to an RSS feed.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/rss+xml:
              schema:
                type: string
  /retrieve-geo-coordinates:
    get:
      tags: [Geo]
      summary: Get Geo Coordinates
      description: Retrieve geographic coordinates for a location string.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api-key
security:
  - apiKeyAuth: []