What is the main difference between APITube and SerpApi?

APITube is a dedicated news API with its own index of 500,000+ sources — it returns full article content enriched with sentiment, categories, entities, and story clustering. SerpApi scrapes search engine results pages, including Google News, and returns what the engine shows: headline, link, source name, date, and a thumbnail. One is a news data layer, the other is a SERP scraping tool.

Can SerpApi return the full text of a news article?

No. Search results pages only carry the headline and metadata, so that is what SerpApi can return. To get the article text you would have to fetch and parse every URL yourself. APITube returns the full article body in every response, already cleaned and structured.

When is SerpApi the better choice?

When your goal is the search engine itself: tracking rankings, ads, or results across Google, Bing, YouTube, and other engines. If your goal is news content at scale — full text, filters, enrichment, streaming — a dedicated news API is the purpose-built tool.

How many websites do you aggregate news from?

We aggregate news from over 500,000 news websites and blogs.

Can I use content from your API on my platform/website?

Our service collects and compiles publicly accessible web pages. We do not possess any copyrights.

Can I change the subscribed plan?

You can change the subscribed Plan at any time during the month.

How can I unsubscribe?

You can unsubscribe by visiting your settings page and clicking the Unsubscribe button. After unsubscribing your account will still remain active until you have credits left on your account they won't go anywhere.

What are the different ways to use the API?

APITube API can be accessed directly through using REST API calls or by using the Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/Kotlin/Swift and many more. Details about the API requests and how to make them are available on the documentation page.

What filters does the API support?

In addition to the search query keywords, we provide you with more than 65 filters to refine your search results. These filters encompass the publication date, topics, languages, sources, countries, and various others.

APITube vs SerpApi — News API Comparison

APITube.io is a dedicated news API with its own index of 500,000+ sources, while SerpApi scrapes search engine results pages, including Google News. Here's how they compare for news data needs.

Basic Article Data
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Title, URL, Publication Date
Full article body
Article image
Source authority rank & political bias
Authors
Links and Videos from the Article
Search & Filtering
Search by keywords
Filter by language and country
Filter by category
Advanced filters (65+)
Searching news by location
Deep pagination through the full index
NLP & Data Enrichment
Categorization
Sentiment analysis
Summary
Publisher rank
Duplicate detection
Stories (event clustering)
Source bias detection
Captcha detection
Paywall detection
Breaking news detection
Platform & Export
Export articles in different formats
Pre-built news index (500,000+ sources)
Real-time delivery: streaming & webhooks
Scrape any search engine results page

More than 500,000+ sources

APITube is trusted by teams around the world to help them build and deliver amazing digital experiences faster than ever before.

Last updated: 3s ago
Total sources: 512.645k
Requests yesterday: 24.879
Articles added yesterday: 102.027k
Total articles: 3.84b

Benefits

Simple, Consistent, and Easy-to-Use API

Our API provides a simple way to access news articles from around the world. We provide a simple, consistent, and easy-to-use API to access news articles from thousands of sources.

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Export data in many formats

Industry Monitoring

Brand Monitoring

Market Intelligence

Risk Management

And many more

Integrations

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Easily connect other web apps with APITube, so they seamlessly work together to share information!

Choose your integration in programming language or framework from our integrations to work with all of our data using REST APIs.

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Structured News Data

Our structured news data API provides a simple way to access news articles from around the world. We provide a simple, consistent, and easy-to-use API to access news articles from thousands of sources.

title

The title of the news article.

href

The URL of the news article.

description

A description of the news article.

body

The full content of the news article.

published_at

The date when the news article was published.

image

The image of the news article.

language

The language of the news article.

topic

The topic of the news article.

industry

The industry of the news article.

sentiment

The sentiment of the news article.

🔥 story

Group the articles into stories.

source

Article source information.

🔥 is_breaking

Breaking news detection.

is_duplicate

Duplicate detection.

is_paywall

Paywall detection.

links

The links from the news article.

media

The media from the news article.

hashtags

The hashtags from the news article.

read_time

The estimated time to read the article in minutes.

sentences_count

The number of sentences in the article.

paragraphs_count

The number of paragraphs in the article.

words_count

The number of words in the article.

characters_count

The number of characters in the article.

Full data models

Frequently asked questions

: APITube is a dedicated news API with its own index of 500,000+ sources — it returns full article content enriched with sentiment, categories, entities, and story clustering. SerpApi scrapes search engine results pages, including Google News, and returns what the engine shows: headline, link, source name, date, and a thumbnail. One is a news data layer, the other is a SERP scraping tool.
: No. Search results pages only carry the headline and metadata, so that is what SerpApi can return. To get the article text you would have to fetch and parse every URL yourself. APITube returns the full article body in every response, already cleaned and structured.
: When your goal is the search engine itself: tracking rankings, ads, or results across Google, Bing, YouTube, and other engines. If your goal is news content at scale — full text, filters, enrichment, streaming — a dedicated news API is the purpose-built tool.
: We aggregate news from over 500,000 news websites and blogs.
: Our service collects and compiles publicly accessible web pages. We do not possess any copyrights.
: Yes.
: You can change the subscribed Plan at any time during the month.
: You can unsubscribe by visiting your settings page and clicking the Unsubscribe button. After unsubscribing your account will still remain active until you have credits left on your account they won't go anywhere.
: APITube API can be accessed directly through using REST API calls or by using the Python/Java/Javascript/PHP/Kotlin/Swift and many more. Details about the API requests and how to make them are available on the documentation page.
: In addition to the search query keywords, we provide you with more than 65 filters to refine your search results. These filters encompass the publication date, topics, languages, sources, countries, and various others.

Help Center

Spencer Chasmar
Senior Developer , Insight Systems
Integration took 4 hours. Documentation is excellent — every endpoint works exactly as described.
Jake Helmold
Investigative Journalist , The Daily Chronicle
I track 200+ entities across 59 languages. What took my team a week now takes minutes.
Lavern Pindar
CTO , DataPulse Media
Switched from building our own scraper. Now we get 500K sources instead of 2K, with zero maintenance overhead.
Don Pippert
Head of Research , QuantView Capital
The entity extraction and industry tagging improved our trading signals accuracy by 23%.
Sally Stevens
Product Manager , NewsFlow Inc.
We process 50K+ articles daily through APITube. The sentiment analysis alone saved us $40K/year on manual tagging.
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.

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.
Mitchell Davis
Full Stack Developer , Rapid Deploy Labs
Clean JSON, predictable pagination, proper HTTP codes. Finally an API that follows REST conventions correctly.
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.
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.
Marcelino Hamwi
Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
Andrew Price
Content Operations Manager , BuzzMetrics
Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
M Hundir
VP of Engineering , Streamline AI
Replaced 3 different news vendors with APITube. Better coverage, lower cost, single integration point.