Currents vs Florida Man

Currents API returns real-time and historical global news as JSON, with search filterable by language, keyword, country, category, and date range. A free account includes 1,000 requests/day — enough for prototyping — before paid plans raise the ceiling for production traffic. Authentication is a single API key passed on every request.

Florida Man API serves a static, occasionally-updated JSON dataset of more than 10,000 real 'Florida Man' headlines scraped from news outlets, each with a title, source, date, and keyword tags. It's hosted as flat JSON on GitHub Pages rather than a dynamic backend, so there's no authentication, no rate limit, and no key required — just a GET request away.