One API. Every source that matters.
LumenFeed started from a simple frustration: building anything on top of news content meant stitching together dozens of RSS feeds, writing custom parsers for every publisher, and still ending up with duplicate stories, missing metadata, and no way to filter by language or sentiment. Feed readers were built to help people read — not to power products.
So we built a different kind of infrastructure: a single, structured unified news API that already handles discovery, deduplication, and enrichment across articles, podcasts, videos, and live sports data — from more than 100,000 sources in over 20 languages.
What we believe
News discovery and news infrastructure are two different problems. RSS and Google News solve discovery — they’re built for humans scanning headlines. Products need something else: consistent structured fields, sentiment scores, language and country tags, and deduplication handled upstream, before it ever reaches your code.
Why LumenFeed is a unified news API, not just RSS
A single RSS feed only ever covers one source. A unified news API works the other way around: one request, one auth header, one JSON shape — no matter whether the underlying content came from a publisher’s article, a podcast transcript, or a live sports feed. That’s the difference between plumbing you maintain yourself and infrastructure someone else keeps running.
Every developer who queries our unified news API platform gets the same guarantee: structured fields, deduplicated entries, and metadata that plain feeds were never built to carry.
Who we build for
Developers building newsletter automation, media monitoring dashboards, LLM and RAG pipelines, and real-time apps that need live sports data alongside editorial content. If you’ve ever written a script to parse RSS XML and normalize it into something usable, LumenFeed is the unified news API that replaces that script.
Frequently asked questions
What makes LumenFeed a unified news API?
LumenFeed is a unified news API because it merges articles, podcasts, videos, and live sports data from 100,000+ sources into one structured JSON response, instead of requiring a separate integration per source or content type.
Is LumenFeed the same as an RSS reader?
No. An RSS reader displays feed updates for humans. LumenFeed is a developer-facing API that returns structured, deduplicated, sentiment-tagged JSON data designed to be consumed by applications, not read directly.
Can I try the unified news API for free?
Yes. The Developer plan is $4.99/month for 10,000 requests, and no credit card is required to start testing the API.
Pricing
Start free and scale as you grow. Every plan includes commercial use — no credit card required to start.
Full plan details and yearly billing discounts at lumenfeed.com
Get in touch
Questions about the API, pricing, or a use case you don’t see covered? Reach us at contact@lumenfeed.com, or visit our contact page. Whatever you’re building, a unified news API should make it easier, not harder — that’s the bar we hold ourselves to.