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Refinitiv News API

Access to real-time and historical news headlines and stories from Reuters and other sources.

Refinitiv News API is one of 45 APIs that Refinitiv publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include News. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.refinitiv.com.

2 operations 2 paths 3 schemas 2 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.refinitiv.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Refinitiv News API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 Bearer token obtained from the /auth/oauth2/v1/token endpoint. Access tokens are valid for five minutes.

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

News 2

Access to real-time and historical news headlines and stories from Reuters and other sources.

GET
/data/news/v1/headlines
Get News Headlines
getNewsHeadlines 3 params → 200400401
GET
/data/news/v1/stories/{storyId}
Get News Story
getNewsStory 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are NewsStory (5 properties), NewsHeadline (5 properties), NewsHeadlinesResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

NewsHeadline
object
5 properties
NewsHeadlinesResponse
object
2 properties
NewsStory
object
5 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

refinitiv-news-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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