Lucid News API

News intelligence, ready to build on

The Lucid News API is a REST feed of summarized news events with multi-source coverage for every story. It is the same intelligence behind the Lucid News app, exposed for developers to build on.

Each event groups reporting from many outlets into a single story, with a neutral, AI-written title and summary and a clear note when the sources disagree. Every source is linked back to its original article.

Pull a clean, structured feed of what is happening and who is covering it, without scraping outlets or running your own summarization pipeline.

What you get

• GET /v1/stories The feed of recent news events. Query params: since, limit, category, cursor.
• GET /v1/stories/{id} One event with its full source list.
• GET /v1/categories Available category labels.

Each story includes

• A neutral, AI-generated title.
• A cross-source summary.
• A disagreement note when sources conflict.
• The category.
• A source_count.
• Publish timestamps.
• An optional geo block.
• An image.
• A sources array, where each source carries the outlet name, a link to the original article, an image URL, and a per-source summary.

Get started

Access is through RapidAPI. Developers subscribe to the Lucid News API on RapidAPI, get an API key, and are billed there. Pick a plan, grab your key, and start making requests.

Building an AI agent? The same endpoints are available as an MCP server through RapidAPI, so LLM clients can call them as tools using your RapidAPI key. Open the MCP panel on the RapidAPI listing for the connection details.

By using the API you agree to the API Terms of Use.