Global API Comparison: LumenFeed vs. NewsAPI.org, NewsData.io, and WorldNewsAPI In this article: The numbers, side by side Request volume and rate limits Source diversity and global coverage Content types: articles vs. everything else Search quality: typo tolerance and filtering Full feature comparison Choosing a global API in practice Getting started with LumenFeed FAQ 10,000 free-tier…
GNews API works well for simple text-only news search, but teams needing sentiment, podcasts, video, or broader language coverage often hit its limits. Here’s what to check before committing.
Raw RSS-to-newsletter pipelines break down the moment you add a second source. Here’s why deduplication is the real bottleneck, and how a unified news API replaces the parser maintenance entirely.
RSS Feed Format Example: What’s Actually Inside That XML File In this article: What does a real RSS feed format example actually look like? Why “just follow the spec” seems like enough 1. Real feeds mix in vendor-specific namespaces 2. Encoding and escaping breaks more often than it should 3. Date formats aren’t as standard…
JSON News Feed Format: What It Looks Like and Why It Replaced XML In this article: What does a JSON news feed actually look like? Why JSON quietly took over from XML Parsing a JSON news feed in practice The format was never really the hard part A common use case: feeding JSON news into…
How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Any Website (Even When It’s Hidden) In this article: What’s the fastest way to find a site’s RSS feed URL? Why most sites hide their feed URL in the first place 1. URL guessing only works on sites you already understand 2. Digging through view-source works, until…
How to Convert Any Page to RSS (No Plugin Needed) In this article: What’s the fastest way to convert a page to RSS? Why “just use a feed generator” seems like the obvious fix 1. The page has no consistent structure to scrape 2. You’re now maintaining a scraper, not reading news 3. Rate limits…
