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NewsAPI alternative: news data that's already scored and classified
NewsAPI (newsapi.org) is great for quickly pulling English headlines into a prototype — simple, well-documented, huge English index. If what you actually need is enriched news — every article scored for urgency, tagged by political lean, topic and country, and clustered by event — that's where NewsAgent Data is built differently.
NewsAPI vs NewsAgent Data
| NewsAPI | NewsAgent Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Source breadth | Large English index | ~3,900 active, RU+EN focused + 190+ countries tagged |
| Languages | 14, English-heavy | Deep RU + EN (scored), 10+ more for coverage |
| Urgency scoring (0–10) | ✗ | ✓ 300+ patterns |
| Political-lean classification | ✗ | ✓ 9-category |
| Topic / audience tags | ✗ | ✓ 27 topics, 6 audiences |
| Event clustering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Telegram channels | No | ✓ thousands |
| What you get per article | headlines + text, no enrichment; no historical on the free tier | title, content, urgency, lean, topic, country, audience, cluster, timestamp |
| Entry price | Free dev tier / $449 business | Free tier · paid from $29/mo |
Which should you pick?
Stay with NewsAPI if you want the broadest possible raw feed and you'll run your own NLP (scoring, classification, dedup) on top.
Choose NewsAgent Data if you'd rather skip building that pipeline — you want articles that arrive pre-scored and pre-classified, with Telegram coverage that web-only APIs miss, and genuine depth in Russian + English. Filter by urgency, lean, topic and country in a single call.
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://api.newsagentdata.com/v1/feed?min_score=7&topic=sanctions&country=ru"
# → already scored, classified, de-duplicated
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