APITube News API

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Real-Time News API for AI

Your model can only answer questions about events it has data for. APITube is a news API built for AI—query it from your LLM, agent, or RAG system and get back current articles with sources. Access via REST, streaming, or a hosted MCP server with one API key.
Realtime news articles from 177 countries
in 60 languages
  • CNN
  • Techcrunch
  • Vox
  • Apple
  • Microsoft
  • IBM
  • Bloomberg
  • Spotify

Benefits

Structured data with sources

A news API for AI lets your LLM, agent, or RAG system answer questions about current events with sources. APITube provides articles from 300,000+ sources across 59 languages and 177+ countries. Each article identifies names and places, scores tone for each entity, assigns categories, rates source credibility, and groups related stories.

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Tone scored for each entity from −1 to +1
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Names and places across 9 types, linked to Wikipedia & Wikidata
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Related stories grouped across sources
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Source credibility: Open PageRank 0-10 & bias labels
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Hosted MCP server for Cursor, Claude, VS Code & Windsurf
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REST, streaming (SSE + WebSocket) & webhooks
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300,000+ sources · 59 languages · 177+ countries
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All data fields included on the free plan

Use cases

What you can do

Use our news data whether you're a small business or a large corporation.

RAG

Real-time RAG & research agents

Ground answers in current, cited coverage instead of a stale training set, with entities and sources attached.

Finance

Financial signals & alt-data

Turn per-entity sentiment and event clusters into market and alt-data signals for models and dashboards.

Risk

Risk, threat & compliance monitoring

Watch suppliers, regions, and regulators for early warning signals in negative-sentiment coverage.

Brand

Brand & competitor intelligence

Track how volume and sentiment move for your brand and rivals across languages and sources.

Verification

Fact-checking & source verification

Check a claim against the index and weigh sources by authority and bias before you trust them.

Media

Newsroom & content automation

Cluster, summarize, and route stories into editorial and content workflows automatically.

Features

Get what you need without complexity

Access news articles from thousands of sources.

News API

  • Export data in many formats
  • Industry Monitoring
  • Brand Monitoring
  • Market news and trends
  • Risk Management
  • Competitor news
  • Media Monitoring
  • Article tone
  • Trend Analysis
  • Group related articles
  • Forecasting social trends
  • Multiple languages
  • Audience Engagement
  • Geographical Analysis
  • Real-time Breaking News
  • Past articles
  • Custom News Feeds
  • News Aggregation
  • Content Filtering
  • Over 50 integrations

Details about each article

  • Industries
  • Locations
  • Persons
  • Organizations
  • Brands
  • Events
  • Disasters
  • Diseases
  • Links
  • Media
  • Images & Videos
  • Hashtags
  • Authors
  • Source
  • Find duplicate articles
  • Source rank
  • Article Sentiment
  • Readability Score
  • Detect language
  • and more

Analysis

  • Article tone
  • Analysis of public opinion
  • Categorization
  • Financial Analysis
  • Trend Analysis
  • Group related articles
  • Content Summarization
  • Names and places
  • Keyword Extraction
  • Article topics
  • Event Detection
  • Names and places
  • Text Classification
  • Controversy Detection
  • Source trust scores
  • Engagement Metrics
  • Source viewpoints
  • Quality Ranking
  • Spam Detection
  • Emotion Detection

Search filters

  • Search by Location
  • Search by Date Range
  • Search by Source
  • Search by Category
  • Search by Industry
  • Search by article tone
  • Search by Story
  • Search by source rank
  • Search by Language
  • Search by name or place
  • Search by Keywords
  • Combine terms with AND, OR, NOT
  • Proximity Search
  • Faceted Search
  • Range Queries
  • Search by Author
  • Search by Media Type
  • Search by Breaking News
  • Search by Read Time
  • + over 65 more filters

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

Frequently asked questions

APITube is a news API built for AI. It provides 300,000+ global sources as structured data with sources that your LLM, agent, or RAG system can reference. Each article identifies names and places, scores tone for each entity, assigns categories, rates source credibility, and groups related stories. Access via REST, streaming, or a hosted MCP server.
Query APITube from your agent or RAG system over REST, MCP, or a stream. APITube returns matching articles with identified names and places, tone scoring, categories, and related stories, so your model answers with current facts it can attribute to a source.
Yes. APITube runs a hosted MCP server at https://mcp.apitube.io/. Point Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, or Windsurf at it with your API key—no install. It provides a search_news tool and a suggest (ID-lookup) tool, plus ready-made prompts: monitor_company, topic_sentiment, breaking_news, and compare_coverage.
Every APITube article identifies names and places across 9 types—person, location, organization, brand, product, event, disease, natural disaster, and sport—each linked to Wikipedia and Wikidata and scored with its own tone. Tone is also returned for the overall article, title, and body, from −1 to +1 with a polarity label.
Each article includes names and places, positive/negative/neutral tone, IPTC Media Topics categories with relevance scores, a source with a political bias label and an Open PageRank authority score from 0 to 10, and a story ID that groups related coverage into one event — so agents see the story, not 40 duplicate headlines.
Yes. APITube publishes Agent Skills under /.well-known/ following the agentskills.io standard, verifiable via SHA-256 digests. Agents can discover and call APITube on their own, with no manual wiring.
Three ways. Pull over the REST API with exports in JSON, CSV, TSV, XML, RSS, XLSX, Parquet, and JSONL; stream in real time over Server-Sent Events and WebSocket; or receive webhooks that push articles to your endpoint on a match. One API key works across REST, streaming, MCP, and skills.
A plain news API returns headlines. APITube returns per-entity positive/negative/neutral tone, story clustering and dedup, source authority (Open PageRank), full article body, streaming, a hosted MCP server, and published Agent Skills. That's what an LLM or agent needs to cite sources and act, rather than a raw feed.
Yes. The same enriched schema is available on every plan — the free tier returns full entities, sentiment, and categories, so you can evaluate APITube for real before you scale.
APITube covers 59 languages and 177+ countries across 300,000+ global sources, with a historical archive you can query by date range.
APITube keeps a historical archive you can query by date range using published-at filters. Depth is measurable per query rather than capped at a fixed number of years, so you scope the exact time window your agent or backfill needs.
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