News your agent can actually use
One event returns once, with the outlets that covered it. Query by meaning, filter by language and publisher, and call it from your backend or straight from Claude.
1,000 requests a month, free forever. No card required.
Provisional figures, regenerated each publication cycle from the source the index is built on.
Twenty results, one story
A wire report reaches hundreds of sites within an hour. Search for it and you get all of them back, each ranked as an independent result. A person skims past the repetition. A model reads the same fact twenty times, fills its context, and treats the repetition as corroboration.
Ask for stories instead of articles and that event arrives once, carrying the list of publishers who ran it. Three outlets or thirty — that number tells you more than the article count ever did.
Built for tool calls
A first-party MCP server
Six tools over the same query surface as the REST API, with the same filters and the same key. No community wrapper to maintain, no drift between what your backend does and what your agent does.
Matching on meaning
A layoff is also a restructuring, a headcount reduction and letting people go. Keyword search finds whichever phrasing you guessed. Semantic and hybrid modes find the event.
26 languages, filtered properly
Japanese has no spaces. Arabic drops its vowels. Serbian is written in two alphabets at once. Language is a first-class filter here, not a flag bolted onto an English index.
Nothing gated
Semantic retrieval, story grouping and MCP access are on the free tier. Paid plans buy volume, history and rate limit. You evaluate what you would ship.
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Called from an agent
What we return
Headline, publisher, timestamp, language, link, and a story identifier. Not article bodies — those stay with the publishers who wrote them, and you stay clear of the licensing questions that follow full text around.
Small responses suit agents well. A model choosing what to read next needs to compare candidates, not consume them, and a compact result set lets it weigh far more options for the same budget.