Florida Man vs GNews

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.

GNews mirrors Google News rankings across roughly 80,000 sources, exposing search and top-headlines endpoints filterable by category, language, and country. The free plan is capped at 100 requests/day with articles delayed 12 hours and results limited to the last 30 days; paid tiers add same-day articles, a multi-year archive back to 2020, and higher daily caps. Every response is JSON, authenticated with a single API-key query parameter.