Language filter

Greek news API

Q: What is the ISO 639-3 code for Greek?

Pass ell as the language filter. Greek is written in Greek.

Query Ελληνικά coverage by keyword, meaning or both. Written in Greek. Pass ell as the language filter.

What the coverage looks like

A high article count concentrated in a relatively small number of outlets, several of which publish at very high frequency. That combination inflates volume without a matching increase in distinct reporting, so story-level collapsing changes the result set here more than in most languages.

2.8kArticles observed

109Distinct outlets

26Articles per outlet

ellISO 639-3 code

GreekScript

Outlet spread is the number worth watching here, not volume. 109 distinct publishers at roughly 26 articles each describes a very different information environment than the same total produced by a handful of prolific sources — and it is the difference between reaching independent reporting and reading one newsroom repeatedly.

In this sample the most active publisher is inewsgr.com, carrying about 18% of Greek articles on its own, and the three busiest — inewsgr.com, newsbeast.gr, iefimerida.gr — account for roughly 23% between them. That is a comparatively flat distribution, which means volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What is the ISO 639-3 code for Greek?

ell. Pass it as the language filter on any endpoint. Greek is written in Greek.

What does Greek script mean for Greek search results?

Its own alphabet, so no accidental overlap with Latin-script queries — a mixed-script query simply returns nothing rather than returning something wrong. Inflection is rich, with case and number marked on nouns and adjectives, and accent marks are sometimes omitted in headlines.

Which retrieval mode should I use for Greek news?

Query in Greek script; transliterated queries do not match. Semantic mode handles the inflection. Watch the ratio of articles to stories as a signal of how much independent reporting a topic has attracted.

Bound every request with a time range regardless of mode. Meaning-based retrieval always returns its best guesses, so an unbounded query produces a confident-looking result set anchored to nothing in particular. If results feed a model rather than a person, collapse to stories as well — one event covered by thirty outlets should cost you one item, not thirty.

Recent headlines in Ελληνικά

Pulled from the index on 2026-07-31, shown in their original script so you can see what the API actually returns rather than a translated approximation of it.

Outlets publishing in Greek

The most active publishers in this language, by article count. Use these as an outlet filter when you want to pin a particular market or editorial position rather than taking the whole language.

inewsgr.com · newsbeast.gr · iefimerida.gr · newsbomb.gr · capital.gr · euro2day.gr · sigmalive.com · thetoc.gr · bankingnews.gr · naftemporiki.gr · newsit.gr · newpost.gr

What catches people out when querying Greek?

A small number of very prolific outlets produce a large share of the volume, so raw counts overstate how much independent reporting a topic has attracted. This is the same republication problem Italian has, in a smaller stream where it is proportionally more distorting.

A worked case

Query in Greek script — transliterated queries match nothing — and use the ratio of articles to stories as your quality signal. For Eastern Mediterranean stories, Greek outlets frequently report before international coverage exists, so this stream is worth watching directly rather than as confirmation of something you already saw elsewhere.

Where this language leads

Dense on domestic politics, shipping and tourism, and on Eastern Mediterranean affairs where Greek outlets often report before international coverage appears.

Who queries it, and why

Queried for shipping, tourism and Eastern Mediterranean politics. The shipping angle is the one outsiders miss — Greek outlets carry maritime reporting with a specificity that no English-language source matches.

Reading these numbers

Provisional. Measured from one ingestion adapter's public feed rather than from the index itself. Outlets and headlines are real; the counts are the right order of magnitude and are not coverage guarantees.