# Scrapa, free: News API

> Ask for news and results come from a news index: dated journalism, freshest first, narrowed by `timeRange` to the last day, week or month.

Scrapa's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Scrapa's docs list 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Snippet.
We haven't run Scrapa through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.scrapa.app/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Scrapa (https://scrapa.app?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 10
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Extra fields: answer: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape a page · List a site's URLs · Start a batch · Start a browser session

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Ask for news and results come from a news index: dated journalism, freshest first, narrowed by `timeRange` to the last day, week or month.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The acceptable-use policy is part of these terms. In short: do not point this API at what the policy forbids, do not use it to collect personal data you have no basis to hold, do not resell raw proxy bandwidth, and do not try to reach anything on our network other than the API itself.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 250 pages a month
- Expires: at the end of the billing month, plan credits do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, topic "news". Optional: limit, timeRange, includeDomains, answer, proxy.pool, proxy.server, proxy.country
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with an account

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, topic, engine used, proxy pool, bytes, cached, position, URL, page title, snippet, credits used, credits remaining, request ID, published at

## Scrapa's plans (6)

- [Scrapa, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/19-pack/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $79 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/79-pack/llms.txt): $3.16 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.52 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.307 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Scrapa, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Scrapa's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /search`: [Scrapa, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)

## Scrapa's APIs (4)

- [Scrapa: image search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrapa: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapa/free/llms.txt)

## Scrapa: news API alternatives

- [Omkar Cloud, $148 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /google-search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/omkar-cloud/148-monthly-scale-plan-get-google-search-news/llms.txt): $0.987 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [HasData, $1,190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/hasdata/1190-yearly/llms.txt): $0.992 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/199-pack/llms.txt): $0.995 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $4,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/4999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.9998 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://api.scrapa.app/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.scrapa.app/en/guides/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapa.app/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing