# TrawlingWeb, free: News API

> With over 18 million sources processed, we provide structured access to web data from vertical content domains.

TrawlingWeb's Starter plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. TrawlingWeb's docs list 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date, Author.
We haven't run TrawlingWeb through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 836 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.198 per 1,000 searches or less. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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. [AnswerLine's Starter plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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/trawlingweb/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.trawlingweb.com/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/get-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: TrawlingWeb (https://trawlingweb.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: no limit
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Social networks: /v1/posts?source=social · Author profiles: /v1/users · Aggregated KPIs: /v1/kpis

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: With over 18 million sources processed, we provide structured access to web data from vertical content domains.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Queda estrictamente prohibida a los clientes y usuarios la reventa, distribución, cesión o transferencia a terceros de los datos, análisis e información estructurada proporcionados por TrawlingWeb como parte de los servicios contratados, sin el consentimiento explícito y por escrito de TrawlingWeb. El Cliente reconoce que los datos estructurados y análisis proporcionados son resultado de actividades de Text and Data Mining y están destinados al análisis interno del Cliente, no a su redistribución o reventa. [...] (4) no solicitará la extracción de textos íntegros como parte del servicio contratado, (5) los campos de contenido original (texto, titular) están disponibles únicamente para operaciones de consulta, pero nunca para extracción o descarga.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 500 pages
- Expires: 90 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: ts, size, format, sort, order
- Method: GET
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone who tells TrawlingWeb about their case, no card

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

result ID, result title, result text, published at, indexed at, result URL, author, language, domain, site, site type, site language, site country, site region, site section, section, estimated value, domain rank, unique visitors, total results, remaining results, next page URL, requests remaining

## TrawlingWeb's plans (3)

- [TrawlingWeb, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [TrawlingWeb, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $202.554 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [TrawlingWeb, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/contact-us/llms.txt): 33% complete

## TrawlingWeb's calls (1)

- `GET /`: [TrawlingWeb, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/free/llms.txt)

## TrawlingWeb's APIs (1)

- [TrawlingWeb: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlingweb/free/llms.txt)

## TrawlingWeb: news API alternatives

- [apipick, $100 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /api/search/ap-news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apipick/100-pack-100000-credits-post-api-search-ap-news/llms.txt): $120.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [AskNews, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /v1/news/search, Search news archive](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/asknews/top-up-pay-as-you-go-get-v1-news-search-search-news-archive/llms.txt): $125.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [API for Agents, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/api-for-agents/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $180.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $200.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/best-practices?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/developer-information?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/get-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/output-response?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/docs/api/news/presentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://feedscale.trawlingweb.app/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://trawlingweb.com/terminos-condiciones?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing