Free Crypto News

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name: Free Crypto News API type: api category: cryptocurrency auth: none pricing: free endpoints: 450+ sources: 300+ llms_txt: https://cryptocurrency.cv/llms.txt openapi: https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/openapi.json mcp_server: https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/mcp (hosted) or npx -y @nirholas/free-crypto-news-mcp (local) license: source-available (all rights reserved), hosted API free to use

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🆓 Free Crypto News API

Quick Start • What You Get • Endpoints • MCP • Self-Host • Docs

Real-time crypto news from 300+ sources with one HTTP call. No API key, no signup, no rate-limit paperwork. Live at cryptocurrency.cv.

For AI agents: curl https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news • llms.txt • llms-full.txt • OpenAPI • MCP: https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/mcp • AGENTS.md • SKILLS.md

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⚡ Quick Start

Thirty seconds, no key required. cURL works as-is:

# Latest headlines from every source
curl https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news

# Only the last two hours
curl https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/breaking

# Full-text search
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/search?q=bitcoin%20etf"

# Filter by category, cap the result size
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=defi&limit=20"

# Ask a question, answered from today's news (AI)
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ask?q=why%20is%20ETH%20up%20today"

Every endpoint returns JSON, is CORS-enabled, and works from a browser, a script, or an agent tool call. Response shape:

{
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Bitcoin Hits New ATH",
      "link": "https://coindesk.com/...",
      "description": "Bitcoin surpassed...",
      "pubDate": "2026-01-02T12:00:00Z",
      "source": "CoinDesk",
      "timeAgo": "2h ago"
    }
  ],
  "totalCount": 150,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-02T14:30:00Z"
}

From code, npm install @nirholas/crypto-news:

import { CryptoNews } from '@nirholas/crypto-news';
const news = await new CryptoNews().getLatest(10);

Python, Go, PHP, Rust, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C#, and R clients live in sdk/ as copy-in source; runnable samples for bots, agents, and 12 languages live in examples/.

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🎁 What You Get

Capability	Details
Sources	300+ RSS feeds in 21 categories plus 77 international outlets (KO, ZH, JA, ES and more) with on-the-fly translation. Tiered by credibility. Details
Endpoints	450+ routes: news, search, categories, market data, DeFi, whales, regulatory, portfolio, trading signals, feeds. Catalog
Historical archive	662,047 articles from September 2017 onward, searchable by date, ticker, sentiment and full text. Archive
AI endpoints	Summaries, sentiment, fact-checks, narratives, research mode, RAG over the archive, daily briefs. Free, powered by Groq. AI docs
MCP server	Hosted Streamable-HTTP endpoint plus a local stdio server, 40+ tools. Below
Feeds and streaming	RSS 2.0, Atom, OPML, Server-Sent Events, WebSocket. Realtime
Widgets	Drop-in HTML/JS news ticker and carousel. widget/
Web app	89 pages: dashboards, portfolio, watchlists, alerts, charts, installable PWA. Pages
SDK examples	Clients in sdk/, samples in examples/, guides in docs/sdks/
Agent-ready	llms.txt, OpenAPI 3.1, /.well-known/agent.json, /.well-known/ai-plugin.json, x402 micropayments for premium routes. AGENTS.md

How it compares

	Free Crypto News	CryptoPanic	Others
Price	🆓 Free	$29-299/mo	Paid
API Key	❌ None needed	Required	Required
Rate Limit	Unlimited*	100-1000/day	Limited
Sources	300+ English + 77 international	1	Varies
Historical	📚 662,000+ articles (2017-2026)	Limited	None
International	🌏 KO, ZH, JA, ES + translation	No	No
Self-host	✅ Docker / Cloud Run / Vercel	No	No
PWA	✅ Installable	No	No
MCP	✅ Hosted + local	No	No
SDK examples	12 languages	0	1-2
AI Features	30+ AI endpoints (free)	No	No

* Fair use. Cache on your side and identify your client with a User-Agent; abusive traffic gets throttled.

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🔌 Endpoints

A compact map of the API, grouped by area. The interactive explorer is at cryptocurrency.cv/developers, the narrative reference is docs/API.md, and the complete 450+ route catalog is docs/reference/endpoints.md.

Area	Endpoints	Notes
News	/api/news, /api/breaking, /api/search?q=, /api/news?category=	limit, source, page, category params
Categories	/api/bitcoin, /api/defi, /api/news?category=institutional	21 categories, see the catalog
International	/api/news/international?lang=ko, /api/news?translate=es	77 outlets, 18 translation targets
AI	/api/ask, /api/ai (summarize, sentiment, fact-check), /api/ai/summarize, /api/ai/narratives, /api/ai/research, /api/ai/brief, /api/rag, /api/predictions	Free via Groq
Sentiment and social	/api/sentiment, /api/fear-greed, /api/trending, /api/social	Includes X/Twitter sentiment without a key
Market data	/api/market, /api/prices, /api/defi, /api/gas, /api/yields, /api/hyperliquid	Prices, DeFi, gas, derivatives
On-chain	/api/whales, /api/whale-alerts, /api/flows, /api/liquidations, /api/unlocks	Whale alerts, exchange flows, unlock calendar
Portfolio and signals	/api/portfolio, /api/signals, /api/alerts	Portfolio-aware news, trading signals
Archive	/api/archive?date=2024-01, ?ticker=BTC, ?q=, ?stats=true	662k articles, see archive
Feeds	/api/rss, /api/atom, /api/opml, /api/sse, WebSocket	Streaming and syndication
Meta	/api/sources, /api/health, /api/openapi.json, /api/stats	Source list, uptime, spec
Premium (x402)	/api/premium/*, /.well-known/x402	Pay per call with USDC, no account. x402 docs
x402 conformance	/api/x402/conformance	Audit any x402 API's discovery contract against the challenges it actually returns. docs, page
Versioned	/api/v1/*	Stable aliases for everything above

AI endpoint examples

The AI routes need no key either. They run on the hosted Groq integration:

# Natural-language question over today's news
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ask?q=what%20happened%20with%20the%20SEC%20this%20week"

# One-paragraph summary of the current feed
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ai/summarize"

# Emerging narratives, ranked by momentum
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ai/narratives?emerging=true"

# Daily brief for a given date
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ai/brief?date=2026-08-26&format=summary"

# Retrieval-augmented answer over the 662k-article archive
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/rag?q=bitcoin%20etf%20approval%20timeline"

Historical archive

662,047 articles (CryptoPanic English coverage from September 2017 plus Odaily Chinese coverage), enriched with tickers, named entities, sentiment and the BTC/ETH price and Fear & Greed reading at capture time.

curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?date=2024-01"                 # one month
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?ticker=BTC&limit=100"          # by ticker
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?q=bitcoin%20etf"               # full text
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?start_date=2025-01-01&end_date=2025-01-07"
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?stats=true"                    # counts and coverage

Schema, directory layout and every query parameter: docs/reference/archive.md.

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🔮 MCP Server

Use the whole API from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or any Model Context Protocol client. 40+ tools (news, search, archive, sentiment, market data, portfolio); the full tool list is in mcp/README.md.

Hosted endpoint, zero install. A Streamable-HTTP server runs at https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/mcp:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crypto-news": {
      "url": "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code, one line:

claude mcp add --transport http crypto-news https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/mcp

Local stdio server. The same tools on your machine, published as @nirholas/free-crypto-news-mcp (source in mcp/):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "crypto-news": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@nirholas/free-crypto-news-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it from a checkout: git clone https://github.com/nirholas/cryptocurrency.cv.git && cd cryptocurrency.cv/mcp && npm install && node index.js.

Other agent surfaces: a ChatGPT custom GPT and OpenAI plugin manifest (/.well-known/ai-plugin.json), Google A2A agent card (/.well-known/agent.json), LangChain and CrewAI samples in examples/agents/, and copy-paste integrations for Discord, Telegram, Slack and LangChain in docs/reference/integrations.md.

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🧩 Widgets

Embed a live news feed in any page with one script tag. Source and examples in widget/.

<div id="crypto-ticker" data-limit="20" data-category="all" data-theme="dark"></div>
<script src="https://cryptocurrency.cv/widget/ticker.js"></script>

ticker.js scrolls headlines, carousel.js renders cards, embed.js drops a full feed into a container. All three read data-* attributes for limit, category, speed and theme.

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🐳 Self-Hosting

Everything runs from one Next.js app. All environment variables are optional; without any, you get the full news API. Set GROQ_API_KEY (free at console.groq.com) to switch on the AI endpoints. The complete variable list, Kubernetes manifests and observability stack are in docs/reference/self-hosting.md.

Docker

git clone https://github.com/nirholas/cryptocurrency.cv.git
cd cryptocurrency.cv
docker compose up -d
# API on http://localhost:3000/api/news

The Dockerfile builds a standalone image; docker-compose.yml adds Redis for caching. Scale-out and observability variants: docker-compose.scale.yml, docker-compose.observability.yml.

Google Cloud Run

gcloud builds submit --config cloudbuild.yaml

Step-by-step, including Artifact Registry, secrets and a custom domain: docs/DEPLOY-GCP.md.

Vercel

From source

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # http://localhost:3000
pnpm build && pnpm start

Railway, Render, DigitalOcean, CasaOS, Unraid and Portainer templates are in the repo root (railway.json, render.yaml, .do/, casaos-app.yaml, unraid-template.xml, portainer-template.json). General deployment notes: docs/DEPLOYMENT.md.

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🏗️ Architecture

1. Next.js 15 App Router on the Edge and Node runtimes; src/app/api/ holds every route handler.
2. Source registry in src/lib/crypto-news.ts (RSS feeds by category) and src/lib/international-sources.ts; credibility tiers in src/lib/source-tiers.ts.
3. Fetch layer pulls feeds in parallel with per-source timeouts, dedupes by content hash, and normalises to the article schema above.
4. Caching at three levels: in-memory, Redis (optional), and CDN s-maxage headers, so a cold fetch is rare.
5. AI layer calls Groq for summaries, sentiment, fact-checks and briefs; RAG indexes the archive into pgvector (docs/RAG.md).
6. Archive is append-only JSONL by month, enriched with tickers, entities, sentiment and market context, exposed through /api/archive.
7. Realtime via SSE and a WebSocket server (ws-server.js) fed by the same fetch layer.
8. Payments: premium routes are gated by x402; the facilitator lives in x402-facilitator/. The discovery contract those routes publish is audited by sdk/x402-conformance/, which also ships standalone: npx @nirholas/x402-conformance <origin>.
9. Agents: MCP (hosted at /api/mcp, local in mcp/), OpenAPI, llms.txt, and /.well-known/* manifests are generated from the same route metadata.
10. Web app: 89 pages of React server and client components, installable as a PWA, localised into 42 languages.

Deeper reading: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/reference/architecture.md, docs/SCALABILITY.md.

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📚 Documentation

Document	What it covers
Developer portal	Interactive endpoint explorer
docs/API.md	API reference with parameters and examples
docs/QUICKSTART.md	Five-minute integration guide
docs/AI-FEATURES.md	AI endpoints and RAG
docs/sdks/	Per-language client guides
docs/reference/	Everything that used to live in this README: full endpoint catalog, pages, sources, archive, PWA, integrations, deployment, roadmap
docs/USER-GUIDE.md	Web app features and keyboard shortcuts
AGENTS.md / SKILLS.md	Agent integration guide and skill catalog
CHANGELOG.md	Version history

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🤝 Contributing

Bug fixes, new sources, translations and docs are all welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow, SUPPORT.md for where to ask questions, and SECURITY.md to report a vulnerability. Contributions are accepted under the repository license below.

• Add a news source: open an issue with the new source template or edit src/lib/crypto-news.ts.
• Improve a translation: edit the file under locales/.

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📄 License

Source-available, all rights reserved. See LICENSE for the code terms.

The hosted API at cryptocurrency.cv is free to use, with or without attribution. Running the code yourself, redistributing it, or building a competing hosted service requires permission under the terms in LICENSE.

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