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](https://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

How it compares

\* 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](https://cryptocurrency.cv/developers), the narrative reference is docs/API.md, and the complete 450+ route catalog is docs/reference/endpoints.md.

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