Build a Multi-Source News Feed in 10 Lines — Free News Aggregator API (NewsAPI Alternative)

NewsAPI.org is great — until you try to use it in production. The free tier blocks commercial use, restricts responses to 100 articles, and enforces a 100-request-per-day limit. By the time you need it for something real, you're looking at $449/month for their business plan. I built a lightweight alternative that aggregates headlines from Hacker News, Dev.to, and major RSS feeds through a single endpoint. Free tier, commercial use OK, and it runs on Cloudflare's edge so response times are fast. What You Get (Free Tier: 500 requests/month) Top news from BBC, NYT, Reuters Tech news from TechCrunch, Hacker News, Dev.to Business news feed Full-text search via Hacker News Algolia Dev.to trending articles Structured JSON: title, URL, published date, source Quick Start Python — Fetch Tech News import requests API_KEY = " your-rapidapi-key " headers = { " x-rapidapi-key " : API_KEY , " x-rapidapi-host " : " news-aggregator-api1.p.rapidapi.com " } # Get tech headlines response = requests . get