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Authenticate Spaceflight News once from your workspace and every action and trigger it supports becomes available to drop into a workflow. There is no glue code to write or maintain.

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Read spaceflight journalism from the keyless Spaceflight News API by The Space Devs. Search news articles, blog posts and mission reports together or apart, filter by news site, keyword, date or the editors' featured flag, poll for what is new since your last run, and pull every story tied to a specific launch or event by its Launch Library 2 ID. No account or API key is required.

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Steps your workflow can run in Spaceflight News.

Search articlesSearch the news articles the Spaceflight News API indexes from professional space news sites. Match a phrase anywhere, or narrow to the title or the summary with a phrase or a keyword list; keep or drop specific news sites; bound it by when a story was published or last revised; and narrow to the featured stories or the ones tied to a launch or an event. The answer says how many matched in total and hands back the offset for the next page.

Get an articleRead one news article by its ID: its title, summary, authors, news site, link, image, publication and revision times, and the launches and events it is tied to. Use it to read a story back later, storing only the ID that every other action returns beside each story.

Search blog postsSearch the blog posts the Spaceflight News API indexes, which include agency mission blogs and high quality amateur writing. Takes the same filters as the article search: a phrase or keyword list over the title and summary, news sites to keep or drop, published and updated windows, and the featured, launch and event flags.

Get a blog postRead one blog post by its ID, with the same fields as an article: title, summary, authors, news site, link, image and timestamps.

Search reportsSearch the summary reports the Spaceflight News API indexes, such as the daily station status write ups. Takes the same text, news site, published and updated filters as the article search. Reports carry no featured flag and no launch or event link, so those filters are not offered here.

Get a reportRead one report by its ID. Reports carry the same fields as an article, with no featured flag and no launch or event links.

Search all newsSearch articles, blog posts and reports in one step and get them back as a single list, newest first. Use it when the question is about a subject rather than a collection: everything written about a mission, wherever it was published. The answer breaks the totals down by collection and each story says which one it came from. Costs one request per collection searched.

Get the latest newsGet what the Spaceflight News API has published since a given moment, across the collections you pick. Built for a scheduled workflow: the answer carries a 'cursor', and passing that back as 'Newer than' on the next run returns only what has appeared since, with nothing repeated and nothing missed. Left empty it simply returns the newest stories and the cursor to start from.

Get featured storiesGet the stories the Spaceflight News API flags as featured, which is its own editorial pick of what mattered. Use it for a digest that should carry the notable stories rather than everything published. Only articles and blog posts are flagged, so reports are not searched.

Find news about a launchFind every story tied to a rocket launch, by its Launch Library 2 launch ID. This is the link that makes the Spaceflight News API more than a feed: coverage is matched to the flight it is about, so a workflow watching a launch can pull what was written about it without guessing at keywords. Reports carry no launch link, so only articles and blog posts are searched.

Find news about an eventFind every story tied to a spaceflight event, by its Launch Library 2 event ID. Events cover the things that are not launches: spacewalks, landings, docking, budget announcements. Reports carry no event link, so only articles and blog posts are searched.

List news sitesList every news site the Spaceflight News API indexes, in alphabetical order, with the API version it is running. These are the exact names the news site filters take, and they are what fills the news site dropdowns on the other actions. Run it to see what is available to filter on before building a search.