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.

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/.

🎁 What You Get

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🔌 Endpoints

A compact map of the API, grouped by area. The interactive explorer is at cryptocurrency.cv/developers, the narrative reference is docs/API.md, and the complete 450+ route catalog is docs/reference/endpoints.md.