Kent Hudson

Kent Hudson

Technical Writer

Kent is a technical writer specializing in API documentation and developer experience. With over 8 years of experience in the tech industry, he helps developers understand complex systems through clear, concise documentation.

Articles by Kent Hudson

21 articles

Real-time news alerts with WebSockets (Socket.IO 2026)
Developer Guides

Real-time news alerts with WebSockets (Socket.IO 2026)

Build real-time news alerts with WebSockets in Node.js using Socket.IO 4.8 and APITube SSE. Room filters, reconnect, Redis adapter, full code.

News API Migration Guide 2026: Switch Without a Rewrite
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News API Migration Guide 2026: Switch Without a Rewrite

News API migration without a rewrite: build an adapter, map fields across providers, shadow-test for parity, and cut over in hours, not days.

Build real-time market-moving news alerts (Python tutorial)
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Build real-time market-moving news alerts (Python tutorial)

Build market-moving news alerts in Python: score, dedupe, and push the news that moves prices. Why sentiment is the wrong signal — with runnable code.

How to Measure Media Bias Across Outlets (2026)
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How to Measure Media Bias Across Outlets (2026)

Measure which stories outlets cover, how they frame them, and their tone toward people or topics. Includes code, metrics, and the limits of each method.

GNews API vs APITube 2026: Honest Head-to-Head
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GNews API vs APITube 2026: Honest Head-to-Head

GNews API alternative or upgrade? Head-to-head with real JSON, articles-per-request math, migration mapping, and when GNews is the right pick.

NewsData.io vs APITube: Pricing, Features, Trade-offs
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NewsData.io vs APITube: Pricing, Features, Trade-offs

NewsData.io vs APITube in 2026 — concessions on both sides, verified pricing, migration code, and decision rules for choosing between them.

Google News API Alternatives: 5 Scored on Docs (2026)
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Google News API Alternatives: 5 Scored on Docs (2026)

Five Google News API alternatives scored on a 7-criterion documentation rubric. Deprecation facts, time-to-first-200 benchmark, working code. 2026 edition.

Free News API Limitations 2026: 6 Tiers Tested
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Free News API Limitations 2026: 6 Tiers Tested

Free news APIs cost more than paid plans. We tested 6 tiers: real rate limits, missing fields, commercial restrictions. Decision framework inside.

Best free news APIs in 2026 (with honest limitations)
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Best free news APIs in 2026 (with honest limitations)

Best free news APIs in 2026 — honest limitations per API, production-safety flags, credits vs requests, dishonorable mentions. 5-question checklist.

Bing News API Is Retired: What to Use Instead (2026)
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Bing News API Is Retired: What to Use Instead (2026)

The Bing News Search API was retired Aug 11, 2025. Here's what replaced it (Grounding with Bing), a three-way migration code diff, the real cost math, and the narrow case where staying on Azure still makes sense.

Telegram News Bot in Python (2026): aiogram + APScheduler
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Telegram News Bot in Python (2026): aiogram + APScheduler

Build a Telegram news bot in Python with aiogram 3.27, APScheduler, and APITube. Async, sentiment-filtered, channel auto-post — full code + Docker.

Build a Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Feed for SaaS
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Build a Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Feed for SaaS

Stop subscribing to 12 vendor feeds. Build a SaaS-specific threat intelligence feed that combines a news API + CISA KEV + CVE — under $50/mo.

Build a Django news portal in 2026: Full stack tutorial
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Build a Django news portal in 2026: Full stack tutorial

Build a Django news portal: Celery beat ingestion, Redis cache, HTMX infinite scroll, Postgres full-text search. Real news API, runnable Django 5 code.

Best financial news API for trading 2026: 5 compared
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Best financial news API for trading 2026: 5 compared

Five financial news APIs scored on latency, ticker-tagging, sentiment, backtesting archive, and trading-event feeds. 2026 fintech-focused comparison.

React News Dashboard Tutorial 2026: SSE + TypeScript
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React News Dashboard Tutorial 2026: SSE + TypeScript

Build a real-time React news dashboard with TypeScript and Server-Sent Events. Full code, 429-safe fetch hook, sentiment filters, Vercel deploy.

NewsAPI.org Alternative 2026: Why Devs Pick APITube
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NewsAPI.org Alternative 2026: Why Devs Pick APITube

NewsAPI.org alternative for 2026 — TOS quote, real migration code, 12-month TCO, and when NewsAPI is still fine. APITube vs NewsAPI.org, straight.

How to Scale a News App to Millions of Users (2026 Architecture Guide)
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How to Scale a News App to Millions of Users (2026 Architecture Guide)

Spike-driven traffic, freshness vs cache trade-offs, autoscaling thresholds for news workloads, a TTL matrix, build-vs-buy cost math from 100K to 100M MAU, and a reference stack. With working ingestion code.

APITube Cookbook is available
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APITube Cookbook is available

News API request examples for common tasks.

Free and premium datasets
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Free and premium datasets

Find free and premium APITube datasets for research, analysis, and projects.

Video game news API
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Video game news API

Get articles about video games and the gaming industry.

Search news by language
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Search news by language

Find news articles in English, Spanish, French, German, and other languages.

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