# News Signals API
GET/v1/newssignals/top-stories
Up to 50 stories ranked by how many GDELT records cited the URL in the window: title, link, publisher domain, tone and the tracked entities named. Titles and links only, never article text. Refreshes every 15 minutes.
Price
$0.01/ callEdge cache
300s
Uptime 24h
100.00%
p95
482ms
MCP tool
newssignals_top-stories
The News signals and trends API provides signals derived from GDELT's 15-minute global news coding. It includes tone in basis points, mention volume against a 30-day baseline, novelty and trending for various entities. The API also offers trending people and topics ranked by attention spike. The /top-stories endpoint returns up to 50 stories ranked by how many GDELT records cited the URL in the window.
Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| window | query | string = 6h | 1h, 6h or 24h |
| entity | query | string | |
| limit | query | integer = 50 |
Code
# 1. No key, no payment: the gateway answers 402 with the price
curl -i "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/top-stories"
# 2. Pay: retry with a signed x402 payment (any x402 client builds this header)
curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/top-stories" -H "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE: $X402_PAYMENT"// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/core @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
const client = x402Client.fromConfig({ schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(PRIVATE_KEY)) }] });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
const data = await (await pay("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/top-stories")).json();
console.log(data);# pip install "x402[requests,evm]==2.27.0" eth-account
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact import register_exact_evm_client
client = x402ClientSync()
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(PRIVATE_KEY)))
session = x402_requests(client)
print(session.get("https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/top-stories").json())curl "https://api.realtimeapi.ai/v1/newssignals/top-stories" -H "X-API-Key: $RTAPI_KEY"Frequently asked questions
What is the API price?
$0.010 per request
What is the API category?
News
What are the available tags?
News, sentiment, trending, entities, GDELT, Wikipedia