Currents vs Trove

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.

Trove is the National Library of Australia's aggregated search across newspapers, books, images, maps, and other cultural-heritage records spanning well over a century. Its REST API returns XML by default with JSON available via an encoding parameter, and moved from v2 to a mandatory v3 in September 2024 after the older version was discontinued. A free API key is required, issued instantly through a Trove account for non-commercial use.