NaijaPress API
News & Media · Artificial Intelligence
Nigerian News Intelligence: top headlines, trends and sentiment
NaijaPress API Highlights
NaijaPress API is best for developers, researchers, and businesses needing structured access to Nigerian news for analysis and integration into their applications.
Bearer Token / OAuth 2.0
5 requests/minute (Developer Free plan)
Nigeria
Ghana
KenyaNaijaPress provides a comprehensive API for Nigerian news intelligence, offering access to top headlines, trending stories, topics, entities, sentiment, and coverage from 58 Nigerian publishers. It enriches articles with categories, subcategories, canonical entities, curated topics, and geographic metadata.
Developers use NaijaPress for research, analytics, business intelligence, and software development, leveraging endpoints for news retrieval, keyword search, and advanced semantic and hybrid search. Growth and Enterprise plans also include AI-generated summaries and related news features.
NaijaPress API Core Features & Capabilities
| Feature | Status | Description & Capabilities |
|---|---|---|
| Latest News Articles | ✓ Supported | Provides native Latest News Articles capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Breaking / Headline News | ✓ Supported | Provides native Breaking / Headline News capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Topic & Keyword Search | ✓ Supported | Provides native Topic & Keyword Search capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Source & Publisher Filtering | ✓ Supported | Provides native Source & Publisher Filtering capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Historical News Archive | ✓ Supported | Provides native Historical News Archive capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Nigerian / African News Coverage | ✓ Supported | Provides native Nigerian / African News Coverage capabilities integrated within the API. |
| News Category Classification | ✓ Supported | Provides native News Category Classification capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Sentiment & Emotion Analysis | ✓ Supported | Provides native Sentiment & Emotion Analysis capabilities integrated within the API. |
| Named Entity Recognition (NER) | ✓ Supported | Provides native Named Entity Recognition (NER) capabilities integrated within the API. |
| AI-generated Summaries | ✓ Supported | Provides native AI-generated Summaries capabilities integrated within the API. |
- Developer Free:₦0/month, 50 requests/30 days, 5/min rate limit, 12-hour delayed news
- Startup:₦20,000/month, 1,000 requests/30 days, 10/min rate limit, last 30 days news
- Growth:₦50,000/month, 5,000 requests/30 days, 20/min rate limit, last 6 months news, AI summaries
- Enterprise:Contact sales for negotiable quotas
Required Access Documents for NaijaPress API
Different NaijaPress API use cases
- News Aggregator:Build a custom news aggregator platform focused on Nigerian content, filtering by category, topic, or entity.
- Sentiment Monitoring:Monitor public sentiment around specific brands, politicians, or events in Nigeria using the API's sentiment analysis.
- Business Intelligence Dashboard:Integrate real-time Nigerian news trends and insights into business intelligence dashboards for market analysis.
- Academic Research Tool:Develop research tools for academic or market analysis, leveraging structured access to historical and live Nigerian news data.