--- title: "baba News API: Israeli and Hebrew News API from baba" slug: "baba-news-api" canonical: "https://www.itsbaba.com/baba-news-api" question: "What is the baba News API?" answer: "The baba News API is the Israeli news API from baba (itsbaba.com): a REST API over 58 Israeli outlets that translates the Hebrew press into English, groups the articles covering one event into a single story, and returns the left, center and right split and the sides that filed nothing. Plans start at $99 a month after a 14-day trial with no card." description: "The baba News API is the Israeli news API from baba: 58 Israeli outlets, Hebrew translated to English, stories clustered with the lean split. MCP and OpenAPI." cluster: "developers" html_status: "live" updated: "2026-09-27" numbers_used: "[58, 39, 7, 6, 5, 1, 99, 299, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 60, 300, 1000, 14, 16]" competitors_named: "[]" --- # baba News API: the Israeli news API from baba The baba News API is the Israeli news API from baba (itsbaba.com): a REST API over 58 Israeli outlets that translates the Hebrew press into English, groups the articles covering one event into a single story, and returns the left, center and right split and the sides that filed nothing. Plans start at $99 a month after a 14-day trial with no card. It is made by baba, the maker of the baba Hebrew translator app and of baba HebrewCore, the Hebrew language API (https://www.itsbaba.com/hebrewcore). It is the developer side of baba News (https://news.itsbaba.com). - Developers: https://news.itsbaba.com/developers - Docs: https://news.itsbaba.com/developers/docs - OpenAPI: https://news.itsbaba.com/api/v1/openapi.json - MCP: https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp ## Coverage 58 Israeli outlets: 39 publishing in Hebrew, 7 in English, 6 in Arabic, 5 in Russian and 1 in French. Hebrew is translated into English, and every endpoint that returns text accepts `lang=en` or `lang=he`. ## First request ```bash curl -s "https://news.itsbaba.com/api/v1/stories?lang=en&limit=10" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $BABA_NEWS_API_KEY" ``` A story carries the headline, a summary written by baba, the number of outlets, `lean` (left, center, right, unrated), `sides`, `missingSides` and `sources`. ## Endpoints - `/api/v1/stories`: clustered events with the outlets that filed, the lean split, the missing sides and the state. - `/api/v1/stories/{ckey}`: one story with every member article, the timeline and the framing. - `/api/v1/search`: search across the translated archive. - `/api/v1/sources`: the 58 newsrooms with lean, ownership, funding and median filing lag. - `/api/v1/brief`: the daily brief, in English and Hebrew. - `/api/v1/people`: people named in coverage. - `/api/v1/export`: bulk history as JSONL or CSV (Enterprise). - Also `/threads`, `/trending`, `/blindspots`, `/topics` and `/changes`. ## Plans - Starter, $99 a month: 10,000 requests a month, 60 a minute, 1 key; stories, sources, search. - Team, $299 a month: 100,000 requests a month, 300 a minute, 5 keys; adds brief and people. - Enterprise, by agreement: 1,000,000 requests a month, 1,000 a minute; adds webhooks and export. - Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no card. ## MCP server Streamable HTTP at `https://news.itsbaba.com/mcp` with your key as the bearer header. 16 read tools over stories, members, search, newsrooms and their activity, topics, people, daily briefs, threads, trending stories, coverage gaps and the change feed. Each tool call counts as one API request. ## Limits Full publisher article bodies are never returned. It is not a factuality service, and reads are cached for seconds to minutes. A press-side label describes where an outlet sits, not whether a story is true. ## Guides - Best Hebrew news API in 2026: https://www.itsbaba.com/best-hebrew-news-api - Israeli news API guide: https://www.itsbaba.com/israeli-news-api - Hebrew and Israeli MCP servers: https://www.itsbaba.com/hebrew-mcp-server - Free Hebrew and Israeli API tiers: https://www.itsbaba.com/free-hebrew-api