name: Free Crypto News API
type: api category: cryptocurrency auth: none pricing: free endpoints: 150+ sources: 200+ llms_txt: https://cryptocurrency.cv/llms.txt openapi: https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/openapi.json mcp_server: "@anthropic-ai/mcp-server-crypto-news"

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🆓 Free Crypto News API

🤖 AI Agents: Free, no-auth crypto news API with 200+ sources.

curl https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news • LLM Docs • Full API Docs • OpenAPI

• MCP: npx @anthropic-ai/mcp-server-crypto-news

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Get real-time crypto news from 200+ sources with one API call.

curl https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news

📚 Historical Archive

Access 662,000+ crypto news articles spanning 2017-2025 — the largest free crypto news dataset available!

Data Sources:

• CryptoPanic — 346,031 articles from 200+ English sources
• Odaily 星球日报 — 316,016 Chinese crypto news articles

# Query historical archive
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?date=2024-01"

# Search by ticker
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?ticker=BTC&limit=100"

# Full-text search
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/archive?q=bitcoin%20etf"

📁 Raw data available in /archive/ — JSONL format by month.

🌿 Branches

To try the redesign locally:

git checkout redesign/pro-news-ui
npm install && npm run dev

🌍 International News Sources

Get crypto news from 75 international sources across 18 languages — with automatic English translation!

Supported Sources by Language

Legacy Region View

| Region | Sources | | 🇰🇷 Korea | Block Media, TokenPost, CoinDesk Korea | | 🇨🇳 China | 8BTC (巴比特), Jinse Finance (金色财经), Odaily (星球日报) | | 🇯🇵 Japan | CoinPost, CoinDesk Japan, Cointelegraph Japan | | 🇪🇸 Latin America | Cointelegraph Español, Diario Bitcoin, CriptoNoticias |

Quick Examples

cURL:

# Get latest news
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?limit=10"

# Get Bitcoin sentiment
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/ai/sentiment?asset=BTC"

# Search articles
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/search?q=ethereum%20upgrade"

# Get international news with translation
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news/international?language=ko&translate=true"

Python:

import requests

BASE_URL = "https://cryptocurrency.cv"

# Get latest news
news = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/api/news?limit=10").json()
for article in news["articles"]:
    print(f"• {article['title']} ({article['source']})")

# Get Bitcoin sentiment analysis
sentiment = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/api/ai/sentiment?asset=BTC").json()
print(f"BTC Sentiment: {sentiment['label']} ({sentiment['score']:.2f})")

# Get Fear & Greed Index
fg = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/api/market/fear-greed").json()
print(f"Market: {fg['classification']} ({fg['value']}/100)")

# Stream real-time updates
import sseclient
response = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/api/stream", stream=True)
client = sseclient.SSEClient(response)
for event in client.events():
    print(f"New: {event.data}")

JavaScript:

const BASE_URL = 'https://cryptocurrency.cv';

// Get latest news
const news = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/api/news?limit=10`).then(r => r.json());
news.articles.forEach(a => console.log(`• ${a.title} (${a.source})`));

// Get AI-powered summary
const summary = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/api/summarize?style=bullet`).then(r => r.json());
console.log(summary.summary);

// Stream real-time updates
const events = new EventSource(`${BASE_URL}/api/stream`);
events.onmessage = (e) => console.log('New:', JSON.parse(e.data).title);

// Ask questions about crypto news
const answer = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}/api/ask?q=What's happening with Bitcoin?`).then(r => r.json());
console.log(answer.response);

📚 Full Tutorials & Examples — 19 comprehensive guides covering 150+ endpoints with complete working code.

Features

• ✅ Auto-translation to English via Groq AI
• ✅ 7-day translation cache for efficiency
• ✅ Original + English text preserved
• ✅ Rate-limited (1 req/sec) to respect APIs
• ✅ Fallback handling for unavailable sources
• ✅ Deduplication across sources

See API docs for full details.

📱 Progressive Web App (PWA)

Free Crypto News is a fully installable PWA that works offline!

Features

Install the App

Desktop (Chrome/Edge):

1. Visit cryptocurrency.cv
2. Click the install icon (⊕) in the address bar
3. Click "Install"

iOS Safari:

1. Visit the site in Safari
2. Tap Share (📤) → "Add to Home Screen"

Android Chrome:

1. Visit the site
2. Tap the install banner or Menu → "Install app"

Service Worker Caching

The PWA uses smart caching strategies:

Keyboard Shortcuts

Power through news with keyboard navigation:

📖 Full user guide: docs/USER-GUIDE.md

🌐 Interactive Pages

The web interface provides rich, interactive pages for exploring crypto data:

📰 News & Content

📊 Market Data

🧠 AI Analysis

🔬 Research Tools

⚙️ User Features

📖 Documentation & Tools

🎨 UI/UX Features

Generate PNG Icons

SVG icons work in modern browsers. For legacy support:

npm install sharp
npm run pwa:icons

Sources

We aggregate from 130+ English outlets + 76 international sources across 21 categories. Source quality is defined in a single canonical tier system (src/lib/source-tiers.ts) used consistently across the feed, RAG re-ranker, and archive reliability tracker.

Source Tiers

🏠 Homepage Feed (curated high-signal sources)

The homepage fetches only from a curated subset focused on quality and signal-to-noise:

• Tier 1 & 2 — Major crypto news: CoinDesk, The Block, Decrypt, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, Blockworks, The Defiant, Bitcoinist, CryptoSlate, NewsBTC
• Research & Analysis: Messari, Glassnode, Delphi Digital, Paradigm, a16z, The Block Research
• Security: CertiK, OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits, Immunefi, samczsun, SlowMist
• Ethereum & Alt L1s: Etherscan Blog, NEAR, Cosmos, Avalanche, Sui, Aptos, Cardano, Polkadot
• Stablecoins: Circle Blog, Tether News
• Institutional / VC: Galaxy Digital, Pantera, Multicoin, Placeholder, Variant, Dragonfly
• ETF / Asset Managers: Grayscale, Bitwise, VanEck, CoinShares, ARK, 21Shares, WisdomTree
• Developer Tools: Alchemy, Chainlink, Infura, The Graph, Hardhat, Foundry
• Exchange Blogs: Coinbase, Binance
• Mainstream (selected): Bloomberg Crypto, Forbes Crypto

All other endpoints (/api/news, /api/search, category filters, etc.) query the full source list.

Endpoints

📂 Category Filter

Filter news by specialized categories:

# Get institutional/VC research
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=institutional"

# Get on-chain analytics news
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=onchain"

# Get ETF and asset manager news
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=etf"

# Get macro economic analysis
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=macro"

# Get quantitative research
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?category=quant"

# List all available categories
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news/categories"

Available categories: general, bitcoin, defi, nft, research, institutional, etf, derivatives, onchain, fintech, macro, quant, journalism, ethereum, asia, tradfi, mainstream, mining, gaming, altl1, stablecoin

🌍 API Translation (18 Languages)

All news endpoints support real-time translation via the ?lang= parameter:

# Get news in Spanish
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/news?lang=es"

# Get breaking news in Japanese
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/breaking?lang=ja"

# Get DeFi news in Arabic
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/defi?lang=ar"

# Get Bitcoin news in Chinese (Simplified)
curl "https://cryptocurrency.cv/api/bitcoin?lang=zh-CN"

Supported Languages: en, es, fr, de, pt, ja, zh-CN, zh-TW, ko, ar, ru, it, nl, pl, tr, vi, th, id

Requirements:

• Set GROQ_API_KEY environment variable (FREE at console.groq.com/keys)
• Translation is auto-enabled when GROQ_API_KEY is set

Endpoints with Translation Support:

🤖 AI-Powered Endpoints (FREE via Groq)

Supported AI Providers (priority order):

1. OpenAI - OPENAI_API_KEY (gpt-4o-mini default)
2. Anthropic - ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (claude-3-haiku default)
3. Groq - GROQ_API_KEY (llama-3.3-70b-versatile default) ⭐ FREE
4. OpenRouter - OPENROUTER_API_KEY (llama-3-8b-instruct default)

🧠 RAG System (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)

Production-grade question answering over crypto news using vector search + LLMs.

import { askUltimate, askFast, searchNews } from '@/lib/rag';

// Ask natural language questions
const answer = await askUltimate("What happened to Bitcoin after the ETF approval?");
// Returns: answer + sources + confidence score + suggested follow-ups

// Fast mode for quick queries  
const quick = await askFast("BTC price news");

// Search documents
const results = await searchNews("Ethereum merge", { currencies: ['ETH'] });

RAG Capabilities:

Service Modes:

Example Response:

{
  "answer": "Bitcoin rose 10% [1] after the SEC approved spot ETFs [2]...",
  "sources": [
    { "title": "Bitcoin Surges Post-ETF", "source": "CoinDesk", "url": "..." }
  ],
  "confidence": { "overall": 0.87, "level": "high" },
  "suggestedQuestions": [
    { "question":