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Frequently Asked Questions

Below are some answers to our most commonly asked questions. Is your question not listed ? Don't hesitate to reach out.

Yes! We offer a 100% no-risk free trial with all of our plans. Try it for free for the first 5 days and receive 100 free calls with access to all features!
That's a good question and there are a number of factors to consider. If you are a crypto enthusiast and require the API for non-commercial projects we recommend the Basic Plan. However, if you have a site or app and want to use the API for commercial purposes we suggest choosing the Premium or Business plan. These plans offer extra features for display purposes.
You can subscribe to Crypto News API with any major credit card. When you cancel your plan before the next renewal cycle, you will retain access to paid features until the end of your subscription period.
In order to use our API you first need to register to obtain an API key. Once registered you will be able to see quick examples on how to pull data using different parameters. You can find these examples on the Key & Details page. For more detailed information on how to use all of our parameters and endpoints, see our documentation page.
We offer video news and articles from 30+ news sources such as: Cointelegraph, Coindesk, CoinMarketCap, NewsBTC, Cryptoslate, Crypto Briefing, and many more... For more information see our documentation page > Filter on News Sources.
Yes, we cover Stock News through our sister site: Stock News API and Forex News through Forex News API.
No. Due to copyright compliance we don't index full article text.
Yes, as long as you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the news source you are linking to. Generally news sources allow linking to them as long as the link opens in a new window and you give proper attribution. For more info please see 2.4 API Usage & Display.
Yes our news data goes back to December 2020.
Yes! With all of our news items (videos and articles) we include the sentiment. This can be positive, negative or neutral and is useful for sentiment analysis. In order to determine the sentiment we use keyword analysis. If the title/sub-title of an article isn't clearly positive or negative it gets flagged as Neutral.
Yes. Please use our topic news endpoint to include/exclude certain topics. For more information see our documentation page.
Please contact us with the name and URL of your site/blog.
We monitor our API every 5 minutes. To see the uptime % of the last 30 days see our status page.
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