Terms of Use

Last updated 26 September 2026.

By using urgent.news you agree to these terms. If you don't, please don't use the site.

What urgent.news is

urgent.news reads publishers' public news feeds, groups reports of the same event, and writes its own short summary of each in software, always linking to the original. It is independent and has no partnership, sponsorship, or endorsement relationship with any publisher it links to; publisher names are shown only to credit the source.

AI-written content & accuracy

Our story summaries, the "Editor's take", and translations are generated automatically by software and may contain errors, omissions, or misstatements. The "Editor's take" is AI-generated commentary, not the opinion of a human editor. Always read the linked original before relying on anything here. Nothing on urgent.news is professional, financial, investment, legal, or medical advice.

No warranty

The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind — including accuracy, completeness, fitness for a purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted availability — to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential loss arising from your use of the site, and total liability is limited to a nominal amount. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law (such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or wilful misconduct).

Acceptable use

Don't use the site unlawfully or abusively, and don't place unreasonable automated load on it. We may restrict access where needed for legal or operational reasons.

Automated reading is welcome — that is what the JSON feeds, RSS and MCP server are for, and using them is preferred to scraping the HTML because it is kinder to the site and gives you cleaner data. What we ask instead of a blanket ban on re-use is set out under API keys and paid plans below: identify yourself with a User-Agent, keep to reasonable rates, and attribute.

API keys and paid plans

The JSON feeds, RSS feeds and MCP server listed at /api are free to use without a key, and we do not intend to change that. Separately, the coverage-metadata endpoints require a key; plans sets out the limits.

Your key is yours to protect. Treat it as a password: don't publish it, commit it, or share it, and send it as a request header rather than in a URL. Usage on a key is billed and counted as yours. If you think a key has leaked, create a replacement from /keys and ask us to revoke the old one.

Billing. Paid plans are monthly, charged in advance through Stripe, and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time from your account; cancellation stops the next renewal and your plan keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not pro-rate or refund part-months, but if something on our side was broken, tell us and we will make it right.

Quotas. Going over a plan's daily limit returns a clear 429 with the reset time. We will not silently truncate results, degrade quality, or bill overage without warning. If we ever need to change a plan's price or limits, existing subscribers get at least 30 days' notice and can cancel before it takes effect.

What you may do with the data. Use it in your own products, research and reporting, including commercially. Please attribute urgent.news as the source of the coverage data, keep the publisher links intact where you show individual stories, and don't present machine-written summaries as human reporting. You may not resell the raw feed as a substitute for the service itself.

Availability. This is a small independent operation, not an enterprise vendor. There is no uptime guarantee or SLA. We may suspend a key that is placing abusive load on the service or being used unlawfully, and will tell you why.

For publishers — copyright & takedown

We start from publishers' public RSS feeds. Where a feed entry is too short to summarise, our crawler also requests the article page it links to — as an ordinary reader's browser would, at a polite rate, identifying itself, and only where robots.txt allows it. We additionally discover stories through the public GDELT index, which can surface outlets that have no feed with us. In every case we write our own summary rather than republishing article text, we always link and attribute, and we use small thumbnails.

If you'd like your feed excluded, your site not crawled, a thumbnail removed, or a specific item taken down, see Copyright & takedown or email legal@urgent.news and we'll respond promptly. We honour standard robots.txt and machine-readable opt-out signals, and you can block our crawler by name without losing your feed listing.

Corrections & complaints

If a story is wrong or unfair — especially about a named person or organisation — report it or email legal@urgent.news. We aim to review quickly, and will correct or pull an item that is wrong. Every summary here is machine-written from other outlets' reporting and links to the original, which is the account to prefer where the two differ.

Third-party links

Links to publishers are provided for reference; we don't control and aren't responsible for their content, availability, or privacy practices.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the operator's place of residence, whose courts have jurisdiction over disputes about them. Nothing here removes any protection you're entitled to under the mandatory law of your own country of residence.

Changes

We may update these terms; the date above shows the latest version.