APITube vs Bing News Search API — Alternative & Replacement

Microsoft retired the Bing News Search API on August 11, 2025, and the official migration path (Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Foundry) does not return raw, structured news data. APITube is a drop-in replacement: a dedicated news API with full article content, NLP enrichment, 300K+ sources, and a simple REST integration.

APITube - News API
Bing News Search API
Basic Article Data
Title, URL, Publication Date
YesYes
Short article description
YesYes
Article image
YesYes
Full article body text
YesNo
Authors
YesNo
Source information
YesPartly supported
Links and Videos
YesNo
Search & Filtering
Search by keywords
YesYes
Filter by language
YesYes
Filter by country
YesYes
Filter by category
YesPartly supported
Filter by source
YesNo
Advanced filters (65+)
YesNo
Search by location
YesNo
Filter by sentiment
YesNo
NLP & Data Enrichment
Article topics
YesNo
Industry labels
YesNo
Sentiment analysis
YesNo
AI-generated summary
YesNo
Source rank
YesNo
Find duplicate articles
YesNo
Stories (event clustering)
YesNo
Source bias detection
YesNo
Breaking news detection
YesNo
Identify paid articles
YesNo
Platform & Licensing
Still running
YesNo
No Azure AI Foundry needed
YesNo
Number of sources
NoNo
Access to past news
YesNo
Export in multiple formats
YesNo
Free tier available
YesNo

More than 300,000+ sources

Teams around the world use APITube to build digital products.

Last updated
8s ago
Total sources
300.000k
Requests yesterday
26.071
Articles added yesterday
140.991k
Total articles
3.88b

Benefits

Replace Bing News Search

After Microsoft shut down the Bing Search APIs, APITube gives you a news API with full article text and analysis of tone and names—no Azure required.

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Export data in many formats
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Industry Monitoring
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Brand Monitoring
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Market news and trends
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Risk Management
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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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PHP
Golang
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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.

category

The category assigned to the article.

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.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Microsoft shut down all Bing Search APIs, including News Search, on August 11, 2025. New resources were disabled earlier in 2025.
If you need structured news data—not AI-generated answers—APITube is a direct replacement. It returns full article text, tone (positive/negative/neutral), names and places, story grouping, and 65+ filters through a REST API, without requiring Azure AI Foundry.
APITube covers everything Bing News Search offered (keywords, language, country, category, images) and adds full article text, tone and entity analysis, historical data, and multiple export formats. Integration typically takes a few hours.
The official Microsoft replacement returns AI-generated answers with citations, not structured news data, and requires Azure AI Foundry. APITube gives you the structured articles through a REST API.
We cover over 300,000 news websites and blogs.
Yes.
Use 65+ filters alongside keywords. Narrow results by publication date, topic, language, source, country, and more.
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.
  • Lavern Pindar
    Lavern Pindar
    CTO , DataPulse Media
    Switched from building our own scraper. Now we get 300K sources instead of 2K, with zero maintenance overhead.
  • Jake Helmold
    Jake Helmold
    Investigative Journalist , The Daily Chronicle
    I track 200+ entities across 59 languages. What took my team a week now takes minutes.
  • Chris Bates
    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.
  • Sally Stevens
    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
    Spencer Chasmar
    Senior Developer , Insight Systems
    Integration took 4 hours. Documentation is excellent — every endpoint works exactly as described.
  • Don Pippert
    Don Pippert
    Head of Research , QuantView Capital
    The entity extraction and industry tagging improved our trading signals accuracy by 23%.
  • Radjesh Kishna
    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
    Willie Mills
    PR Intelligence Analyst , ReputationGuard
    Brand monitoring across 177 countries. We catch mentions within minutes, not hours.
  • Mitchell Davis
    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
    Zhào Yì
    Analytics Director , GlobalTrend Research
    Multilingual support is critical for us. 59 languages with consistent data quality across all of them.
  • M Hundir
    M Hundir
    VP of Engineering , Streamline AI
    Replaced 3 different news vendors with APITube. Better coverage, lower cost, single integration point.
  • Marcelino Hamwi
    Marcelino Hamwi
    Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
    The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
  • Andrew Price
    Andrew Price
    Content Operations Manager , BuzzMetrics
    Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
  • Dallas Snack
    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
    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.

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