At a glance
ProviderCoinDesk
TypeRSS Feed
CategoryCrypto
Real-timeNo — request/response
AuthNone — open endpoint
PricingFree (public RSS); separate CoinDesk Data API is paid/contact-sales — Public RSS feed: free, no API key, no account required, CoinDesk Data API (separate product): free tier retired May 21, 2026, Data API paid plans (Start-Up to Enterprise): contact-sales, no public price
What data it provides
- Article headline (title) and full-article link
- Publication timestamp (pubDate, RFC 822)
- Short article description/summary (CDATA)
- Category tags (Markets, Policy, Business, Tech, Indices)
- Author (dc:creator) and unique guid
- Associated media (media:content image/video URLs)
Features
- Standard RSS 2.0 / XML — parses with any feed library (feedparser, rss-parser)
- Category-scoped feeds via query param (e.g. ?category=markets)
- No authentication and no rate-limit account gating on the public feed
- Latency tied to CoinDesk editorial publishing cadence (minutes, not sub-second)
- History limited to the most recent items in the feed window (not a deep archive)
- For structured prices/indices/news-by-source, use the separate developers.coindesk.com Data API
Links
Use it in a bot
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