Currents
Real-time and historical global news with multilingual support
- Authentication
- API Key
- HTTPS
- Yes
- CORS
- Yes
- Category
- News
- Data source
- public-apis + marcelscruz
- Documentation / URL
- https://currentsapi.services/
Overview
Currents provides real-time/historical global news — key-based (an invalid key returns 401, verified).
Quick Start
Latest news (replace YOUR_KEY):
curl "https://api.currentsapi.services/v1/latest-news?apiKey=YOUR_KEY"{ "status": "401", "msg": "Invalid token" }Authentication
- Register at currentsapi.services → API key.
- Send it as the
apiKeyquery parameter (invalid → 401, verified).
Rate Limits & Notes
- Free tier with limits (check the docs); paid plans scale.
- Multilingual news, search, historical.
FAQ
Is Currents free? Free tier with limits; more is paid.
Why 401? Invalid keys return 401 (verified) — register for a key.
What’s the auth style?
apiKey query parameter.
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