> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://newscatcherinc-docs.mintlify.site/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction to News API

> Programmatic access to a continuously updated index of news articles from sources worldwide.

News API gives you structured access to a continuously updated index of news
articles from sources worldwide. NewsCatcher scrapes, normalizes, and enriches
this content — including NLP processing across original-language articles and
their English translations — and stores it in a searchable index. The API
returns JSON over HTTPS.

If you're new here, the [Quickstart](/news-api/get-started/quickstart) gets you
your first response in under five minutes.

## What you can build

You can use News API to power a wide range of applications, including:

* **AI training and RAG pipelines** — use a timestamped, multilingual,
  source-attributed news corpus for LLM fine-tuning, temporal reasoning
  training, or as the knowledge base for AI agents grounded in real-world
  events.
* **Financial intelligence** — derive sentiment signals, track market-moving
  stories by company or sector, and backtest news-driven strategies against
  years of historical data.
* **Media and brand monitoring** — track mentions, sentiment shifts, and
  coverage patterns across a broad range of global sources in near real-time.
* **Competitive intelligence** — monitor competitor activity, executive moves,
  product launches, and reputational events over time.
* **Geopolitical and risk intelligence** — score country risk, track sanctions
  coverage, and monitor supply chain disruptions using structured news signals.

## Core concepts

Familiarize yourself with these concepts before diving into the API:

* [Articles](/news-api/api-reference/overview) — the core resource: structured
  JSON documents representing a single published piece of content.
* [NLP enrichment](/news-api/guides-and-concepts/nlp-features) — sentiment,
  named entities, themes, and summaries added at index time for articles from
  July 2023 onward.
* [Clustering](/news-api/guides-and-concepts/clustering-news-articles) —
  grouping articles that cover the same story using embedding-based similarity.
* [Sources](/news-api/how-to/check-sources-coverage) — the publishers and
  domains indexed by NewsCatcher; queryable to validate coverage.

## Next steps

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    Make your first API call in under five minutes
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    Base URL, endpoints, authentication, and response schemas
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    Compare plans and feature access
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    Python, TypeScript, and Java client libraries
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