News API Currents

Currents Owner Interface (Portable)

Trigger

Use when a user asks to expose Currents data to end users while keeping owner credentials private.

Requirements

• Backend service with outbound internet
• Runtime env var: CURRENTS_API_KEY

Need an API key?

If you do not have a Currents API key yet, register here:

• https://currentsapi.services/en/register

Steps

1. Accept user request at your backend only.
2. Validate and allowlist request params.
3. Call:
   • https://api.currentsapi.services/v2/latest-news
   • https://api.currentsapi.services/v2/search
4. Authenticate with a bearer Authorization header sourced from the environment.
5. Enforce request quotas + caching.
6. Return normalized response schema and error mapping.

Date filtering (UTC+0)

• Send start_date / end_date in RFC3339/ISO-8601 format.
• Convert user-local times to UTC (Z) before requesting.
• Treat returned published timestamps as UTC (+0000).
• Use half-open windows (>= start, < end) to avoid boundary duplicates.

Pitfalls

• Exposing owner key in client apps.
• No param validation.
• Missing retries/backoff on 5xx or 429.
• Using default Python urllib User-Agent can trigger Cloudflare/WAF block (403, error 1010).

Verification

• Key absent from client-side artifacts.
• Bounded page size and validated filters.
• Audit logs redact secret values.
• Backend requests send explicit browser/curl-like User-Agent.