Meet Athena
Go from news to insight with our enriched News API
Fuel your analytics with nearly twenty years of enriched news data from over 50,000 sources.
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News API of the future
Uncover enriched, structured news data—from real-time updates to historical archives—designed to streamline your analytics and drive smarter decisions.
15+ Years of Historical Data
Analyze trends with nearly two decades of historical articles spanning 50,000 global sources.
Sentiment Analysis
Gain an accurate picture of changing market trends and customer preferences with sentiment analysis.
Entity Extraction and Linking
Save time as advanced language models automatically identify key entities and link them to real-world knowledge bases.
Entity Relationships
Easily understand connections between entities, providing deeper insights and a clearer context for your analysis.
Topic Analysis
Uncover the main themes in articles with automated topic analysis, helping you focus on what matters most without manual effort.
Vector Embeddings
Leverage article data in machine-learning and search applications with pre-generated vector embeddings using off-the-shelf models.
Global Coverage
Empowering analysis of world news
We transform decades of global news into enriched, structured data, empowering analysts and decision-makers to uncover insights and trends with ease.
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Use Cases
Insights that drive better decision making
Discover how our news API can supports use cases from media monitoring to advanced AI applications.
Media Monitoring
Stay informed with extensive news coverage spanning multiple regions and languages, ensuring you never miss a mention.
Risk Intelligence
Collect, analyze and share actionable risk intelligence to make faster, more informed decisions.
Financial Market Intelligence
Gain the contextual data needed to improve the precision and recall of financial models.
AI & Machine Learning
Keep your models up-to-date with fresh context using the latest news.
Effortless Integration via
REST API
Athena offers a simple, easy-to-use News API that returns JSON results for current and historic news articles.
- Get JSON results with HTTP POST requests
- Customize results with various filters
- Free account for development
Frequently asked questions
What sets Athena News API apart from competitors?
While many competitors focus on providing only recent or surface-level news data, Athena offers a unique advantage with over 15 years of historical data. This allows users to uncover long-term trends, backtest strategies, and analyze events in a broader historical context.
Moreover, Athena doesn’t just deliver raw news; it transforms data into actionable insights. Our continual enrichment process includes entity extraction and linking, sentiment analysis, relationship mapping, topic extraction, and text embeddings. These features empower users to dive deeper, identify patterns, and generate intelligence that goes beyond what typical APIs can offer.
With Athena, you’re not just accessing news—you’re gaining a powerful tool for unlocking insights, driving innovation, and making data-driven decisions.
How many websites does Athena index?
Athena aggregates and indexes news from over 50,000 trusted sources worldwide, ensuring comprehensive coverage across industries, regions, and topics.
What is the historical range of Athena's news archive?
Does Athena return the full content of the articles?
Yes, Athena returns the full article content, as long as it isn’t behind a login or paywall.
What counts as a request?
A request is defined as a successful query (200), whether through the Athena web app or News API. For each request, you can retrieve 25 news articles.
How often does Athena update with new articles?
Athena monitors sites at intervals ranging from every 2 minutes to once an hour, adapting to each site’s publication frequency.