What is the main difference between APITube and Mediastack?

Mediastack provides a news API with filtering by language, country, and category. APITube adds tone analysis (positive/negative/neutral), story grouping, source bias detection, captcha/paywall detection, breaking news detection, AI summaries, and 65+ search filters.

How many news sources do you cover?

We cover over 300,000 news websites and blogs.

Can I use API content on my platform or website?

We do not own the copyright to the article content.

Can I switch to a different plan?

You can switch plans at any time during the month.

How do I cancel my subscription?

To unsubscribe, go to your settings page and click the Unsubscribe button. Your account stays active and your credits remain available.

How do I connect to the API?

You can call the APITube API directly using REST, or use the Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/Kotlin/Swift and more. See the documentation page for how to make API requests.

What happens when I run out of credits?

You can upgrade your plan or wait until next month when your credits reset.

What filters can I use?

Use 65+ filters alongside keywords. Narrow results by publication date, topic, language, source, country, and more.

How do I change my plan if I already have a subscription?

When you change your plan, it takes effect immediately.

APITube vs Mediastack

Both APITube.io and Mediastack provide news APIs, but APITube includes more analysis and filtering.

Basic Article Data
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Title, Content, URL, Publication Date
Article image
Source information
Authors
Full article body
Links and Videos
Search & Filtering
Search by keywords
Filter by language
Filter by country
Filter by category
Advanced filters (65+)
Search by location
NLP & Data Enrichment
Categorization
Sentiment analysis
Summary
Source rank
Find duplicate articles
Stories (event clustering)
Source bias detection
Detect captchas
Identify paid articles
Breaking news detection
Platform & Export
Export in different formats
Number of sources

More than 300,000+ sources

Teams around the world use APITube to build digital products.

Last updated: 4s ago
Total sources: 300.000k
Requests yesterday: 27.524
Articles added yesterday: 94.645
Total articles: 3.88b

Benefits

Access news from thousands of sources

Get news articles from thousands of sources worldwide.

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Export data in many formats

Industry Monitoring

Brand Monitoring

Market news and trends

Risk Management

And more

Integrations

Get started in minutes

Connect other web apps with APITube so they can share information.

Choose your programming language or framework to work with our data using REST APIs.

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Structured News Data

Access news articles from thousands of sources around the world through our API.

title

The article's title.

href

The article's URL.

description

A summary of the article.

body

The article's full text.

published_at

When the article was published.

image

The article's image.

language

The article's language.

topic

The topic assigned to the article.

industry

The industry assigned to the article.

sentiment

Whether the article's tone is positive, negative, or neutral.

🔥 story

Group related articles into stories.

source

Information about the article's source.

🔥 is_breaking

Whether the article is breaking news.

is_duplicate

Whether the article has duplicate versions.

is_paywall

Whether the article requires paid access.

links

Links found in the article.

media

Media found in the article.

hashtags

Hashtags extracted from the article.

read_time

Estimated reading time in minutes.

sentences_count

How many sentences are in the article.

paragraphs_count

How many paragraphs are in the article.

words_count

How many words are in the article.

characters_count

How many characters are in the article.

Full data models

Frequently asked questions

: Mediastack provides a news API with filtering by language, country, and category. APITube adds tone analysis (positive/negative/neutral), story grouping, source bias detection, captcha/paywall detection, breaking news detection, AI summaries, and 65+ search filters.
: We cover over 300,000 news websites and blogs.
: We do not own the copyright to the article content.
: Yes.
: You can switch plans at any time during the month.
: To unsubscribe, go to your settings page and click the Unsubscribe button. Your account stays active and your credits remain available.
: You can call the APITube API directly using REST, or use the Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/Kotlin/Swift and more. See the documentation page for how to make API requests.
: You can upgrade your plan or wait until next month when your credits reset.
: Use 65+ filters alongside keywords. Narrow results by publication date, topic, language, source, country, and more.
: When you change your plan, it takes effect immediately.

Help Center

Zhào Yì
Analytics Director , GlobalTrend Research
Multilingual support is critical for us. 59 languages with consistent data quality across all of them.
Dallas Snack
Backend Architect , TechBridge Solutions
Python, Node, Go — we use all three. APITube works seamlessly with each. Rate limits are generous for our scale.
Radjesh Kishna
Engineering Manager , InfoStream Technologies
Cut our news infrastructure costs by 60%. The pay-as-you-go model perfectly matches our variable traffic.
Willie Mills
PR Intelligence Analyst , ReputationGuard
Brand monitoring across 177 countries. We catch mentions within minutes, not hours.
Andrew Price
Content Operations Manager , BuzzMetrics
Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
Marcelino Hamwi
Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
M Hundir
VP of Engineering , Streamline AI
Replaced 3 different news vendors with APITube. Better coverage, lower cost, single integration point.
Mitchell Davis
Full Stack Developer , Rapid Deploy Labs
Clean JSON, predictable pagination, proper HTTP codes. Finally an API that follows REST conventions correctly.
J Silo
Founder , MediaWatch Startup
Started on the free tier, now on Corporate. Scaled from MVP to 10K users without changing a line of integration code.

Lavern Pindar
CTO , DataPulse Media
Switched from building our own scraper. Now we get 300K sources instead of 2K, with zero maintenance overhead.
Sally Stevens
Product Manager , NewsFlow Inc.
We process 50K+ articles daily through APITube. The sentiment analysis alone saved us $40K/year on manual tagging.
Spencer Chasmar
Senior Developer , Insight Systems
Integration took 4 hours. Documentation is excellent — every endpoint works exactly as described.
Don Pippert
Head of Research , QuantView Capital
The entity extraction and industry tagging improved our trading signals accuracy by 23%.
Chris Bates
Lead Data Engineer , Meridian Analytics
Reduced our news pipeline build time from 3 weeks to 2 days. The structured data format eliminated 90% of our parsing code.
Jake Helmold
Investigative Journalist , The Daily Chronicle
I track 200+ entities across 59 languages. What took my team a week now takes minutes.

APITube and Mediastack: Full Comparison

APITube vs. Mediastack. APITube retrieves articles from 4900 sources and analyzes them: it identifies whether coverage is positive, negative, or neutral, extracts names and places, and assigns topics automatically. Mediastack provides simpler access to news without this analysis.

APITube collects from 300,000 and above sources with 65 and above search filters to find specific articles. Mediastack offers simpler features without sentiment, entity, or topic analysis. APITube returns analyzed data you can use immediately.

Story clustering groups related articles together. Duplicate detection removes repeated coverage. Publisher ranking shows which sources are most authoritative. Export your data as JSON, CSV, XLSX, or XML. Use the SDK to connect to your system.

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