Polish news API
Query Polski coverage by keyword, meaning or both. Written in Latin with diacritics . Pass pol as the language filter.
What the coverage looks like
A large, active domestic press with strong political polarisation between outlet groups. Editorial stance varies enough between publishers covering the same event that any sentiment measure computed across an unfixed outlet set is describing the sample rather than the story. Volume is substantial and the outlet base is wide, but the two are not evenly distributed across subjects: politics and security are covered by almost everyone, while business and technology concentrate in a much smaller set of publishers. A query that looks well served in one subject area can be thinly served in another within the same language, so checking outlet spread per topic rather than per language is worth the extra step here.
| Articles observed | 887 |
|---|---|
| Distinct outlets | 125 |
| Articles per outlet | 7 |
| ISO-639-3 code | pol |
| Script | Latin with diacritics |
Outlet spread is the number worth watching here, not volume. 125 distinct publishers at roughly 7 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 bankier.pl, carrying
about 6% of Polish articles on its own, and the three busiest
— bankier.pl, wiadomosci.onet.pl, se.pl — account for roughly 15% between
them. That is a comparatively flat distribution, which means volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
Script and matching behaviour
Highly inflected with seven cases, and consonant alternations that change the stem itself rather than just the ending. Diacritics are frequently dropped in informal writing and in URLs. A dictionary-form keyword query is close to useless.
How to query it
Semantic mode is effectively mandatory. If you are measuring sentiment or tone, fix the outlet set first and compare within it over time — cross-outlet comparison in Polish measures editorial line, not events.
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 Polski
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 Polish
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.
bankier.pl · wiadomosci.onet.pl · se.pl · dorzeczy.pl · rp.pl · wiadomosci.wp.pl · portalsamorzadowy.pl · portalspozywczy.pl · niedziela.pl · gazetaolsztynska.pl · wprost.pl · fakt.pl
What catches people out
Sentiment analysis is where Polish punishes careless pipelines. Editorial positions differ sharply between outlet groups covering identical events, so a sentiment average across whichever publishers a query happened to reach describes the sample composition and nothing else. Week-on-week movement in such a figure is usually the outlet mix changing rather than opinion shifting.
A worked case
Fix the outlet set first, then track sentiment within it over time. For energy and security stories, Polish coverage frequently precedes English-language reporting on the same developments by a meaningful margin, so it is worth querying directly rather than waiting for it to be picked up.
Where this language leads
Strong on domestic politics, energy security and regional affairs in Central and Eastern Europe, often ahead of English-language coverage of the same developments.
Who queries it, and why
Queried for energy security, regional politics and increasingly for defence and infrastructure. Polish reporting frequently leads English-language coverage of Central European developments, which makes it valuable as a leading indicator rather than as confirmation.
Reading these numbers
These figures are provisional. They are measured from the public source the index is built from rather than from the index itself, because the query endpoint is not yet reachable from the build. They are the right order of magnitude and the outlets and headlines are real, but they should not be quoted as coverage guarantees until a snapshot taken against the API replaces them.
A page exists for this language because the index carries enough Polish coverage from enough distinct outlets to answer a real question about it. Languages that do not clear that bar deliberately have no page rather than a page that implies coverage which is not there.