What is a story clustering API?

A story clustering API groups articles that cover the same event into one story, so you handle the event once instead of every duplicate. The APITube story endpoint returns the coverage related to a given article as a single cluster.

How does APITube group related articles?

APITube exposes a /v1/news/story endpoint that takes a source article ID and returns the articles related to it, matched by title similarity across sources. The result is the cluster of coverage about that story.

How do I get the related coverage for an article?

Pass the source article ID to the /v1/news/story endpoint. APITube returns the related articles for that story, each with the full enriched schema, so you can show one event with all of its coverage.

Why does story clustering matter for AI agents?

Without clustering, an agent sees forty near-duplicate headlines about one event and may reason about it forty times. Story clustering collapses that into a single story, so the agent grounds and cites the event once.

Are the related articles enriched?

Yes. Every article in a story cluster carries the same enrichment as a normal result: entities with knowledge-graph links, sentiment at overall, title, body, and per-entity level, categories, and source authority.

How is story clustering different from a keyword search?

A keyword search returns articles that match your terms. The story endpoint starts from one specific article and returns the coverage related to that event, which is the difference between a term match and an event cluster.

How many languages and countries does clustering cover?

Story clustering draws on the same coverage as the APITube news API: 59 languages and 177+ countries across 500,000+ sources.

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Last updated: July 22, 2026

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See the event, not the duplicates

A story clustering API groups multiple articles about the same event into one story. With APITube you pass an article ID to the /v1/news/story endpoint and get back the related articles covering that story, matched by title similarity — so an agent sees one event with its coverage, not dozens of near-duplicate headlines.

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Frequently asked questions

: A story clustering API groups articles that cover the same event into one story, so you handle the event once instead of every duplicate. The APITube story endpoint returns the coverage related to a given article as a single cluster.
: APITube exposes a /v1/news/story endpoint that takes a source article ID and returns the articles related to it, matched by title similarity across sources. The result is the cluster of coverage about that story.
: Pass the source article ID to the /v1/news/story endpoint. APITube returns the related articles for that story, each with the full enriched schema, so you can show one event with all of its coverage.
: Without clustering, an agent sees forty near-duplicate headlines about one event and may reason about it forty times. Story clustering collapses that into a single story, so the agent grounds and cites the event once.
: Yes. Every article in a story cluster carries the same enrichment as a normal result: entities with knowledge-graph links, sentiment at overall, title, body, and per-entity level, categories, and source authority.
: A keyword search returns articles that match your terms. The story endpoint starts from one specific article and returns the coverage related to that event, which is the difference between a term match and an event cluster.
: Story clustering draws on the same coverage as the APITube news API: 59 languages and 177+ countries across 500,000+ sources.