What is the best real-time news API for AI, agents, and RAG?

APITube is a real-time news API built for AI. It exposes 500,000+ global sources as structured, sourced data an LLM, agent, or RAG system can retrieve and cite — each article enriched with entities, per-entity sentiment, categories, source authority, and story clusters, delivered over REST, streaming, or a hosted MCP server.

How do I give an LLM or RAG pipeline real-time news?

Query APITube from your agent or RAG pipeline over REST, MCP, or a stream. APITube returns matching articles enriched with entities, sentiment, categories, and story clusters, so your model answers with current facts it can attribute to a source instead of guessing from its training cutoff.

Does APITube have an MCP server for AI agents?

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 exposes a search_news tool and a suggest (ID-lookup) tool, plus ready-made prompts: monitor_company, topic_sentiment, breaking_news, and compare_coverage.

What entity and sentiment data does the news API return?

Every APITube article tags entities 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 sentiment. Sentiment is also returned at overall, title, and body levels, from −1 to +1 with a polarity label.

What enrichment comes attached to every article?

Beyond entities and sentiment, each APITube article carries 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.

Can AI agents discover and call the API on their own?

Yes. APITube publishes Agent Skills under /.well-known/ following the agentskills.io standard, verifiable via SHA-256 digests. This lets agents discover and call APITube on their own, with no manual wiring.

How is the data delivered — REST, streaming, or webhooks?

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.

How does APITube compare to a plain news API for AI use?

A plain news API returns headlines. APITube returns structured, sourced facts — per-entity sentiment, story clustering and dedup, source authority (Open PageRank), full article body, streaming, a hosted MCP server, and published Agent Skills. That enrichment is what an LLM or agent needs to ground, cite, and act on, rather than a raw feed.

Does the free plan include the full enriched schema?

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.

What languages and countries does APITube cover?

APITube covers 59 languages and 177+ countries across 500,000+ global sources, with a historical archive you can query by date range.

How far back can I query historical news with APITube?

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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Real-Time News API for AI

Last updated: July 22, 2026

A model is only as current as the data it can retrieve. APITube is a real-time news API built for AI — query it from an LLM, agent, or RAG pipeline and get back current, structured, sourced articles your model can cite, over REST, streaming, or a hosted MCP server, with one API key.

Realtime news articles from 177 countries

in 60 languages

Benefits

Structured, sourced data for LLMs, agents, and RAG

A real-time news API for AI is the live-web data layer an LLM, agent, or RAG system retrieves to answer questions about current events with sources it can cite. APITube delivers it from 500,000+ sources across 59 languages and 177+ countries — each article enriched with entities, per-entity sentiment, categories, source authority, and story clusters.

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Per-entity sentiment scored from −1 to +1

Entities across 9 types, linked to Wikipedia & Wikidata

Story clustering and deduplication

Source authority: Open PageRank 0-10 & bias labels

Hosted MCP server for Cursor, Claude, VS Code & Windsurf

REST, streaming (SSE + WebSocket) & webhooks

500,000+ sources · 59 languages · 177+ countries

Full enriched schema on the free plan

Use cases

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Our solutions are designed to help you achieve your goals. Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, we have the right solution for you.

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

Don’t waste time on complex features

Complex features made simple. 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.

News API

Export data in many formats
Industry Monitoring
Brand Monitoring
Market Intelligence
Risk Management
Competitive Intelligence
Media Monitoring
Sentiment Analysis
Trend Analysis
Story Grouping
Forecasting social trends
Multi-language Support
Audience Engagement
Geographical Analysis
Real-time Breaking News
Historical Data Access
Custom News Feeds
News Aggregation
Content Filtering
Over 50 integrations

Extract Additional Data

Industries
Locations
Persons
Organizations
Brands
Events
Disasters
Diseases
Links
Media
Images & Videos
Hashtags
Authors
Source
Duplicate Detection
Publisher Rank
Article Sentiment
Readability Score
Language Detection
and more

Analysis

Sentiment Analysis
Analysis of public opinion
Categorization
Financial Analysis
Trend Analysis
Story Grouping
Content Summarization
Entity Recognition
Keyword Extraction
Topic Modeling
Event Detection
Named Entity Recognition
Text Classification
Controversy Detection
Trust Score Analysis
Engagement Metrics
Source Bias Detection
Quality Ranking
Spam Detection
Emotion Detection

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Boolean Search
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Faceted Search
Range Queries
Search by Author
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Search by Breaking News
Search by Read Time
+ over 65 more filters

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API Response

✓ Tesla Stock Sentiment

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Key Features Demonstrated:

Sentiment AnalysisCompany ExtractionRich MetadataImage URLsSource Attribution

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: 5s ago
Total sources: 512.645k
Requests yesterday: 25.768
Articles added yesterday: 137.054k
Total articles: 3.84b

Frequently asked questions

: APITube is a real-time news API built for AI. It exposes 500,000+ global sources as structured, sourced data an LLM, agent, or RAG system can retrieve and cite — each article enriched with entities, per-entity sentiment, categories, source authority, and story clusters, delivered over REST, streaming, or a hosted MCP server.
: Query APITube from your agent or RAG pipeline over REST, MCP, or a stream. APITube returns matching articles enriched with entities, sentiment, categories, and story clusters, so your model answers with current facts it can attribute to a source instead of guessing from its training cutoff.
: 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 exposes 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 tags entities 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 sentiment. Sentiment is also returned at overall, title, and body levels, from −1 to +1 with a polarity label.
: Beyond entities and sentiment, each APITube article carries 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. This lets agents 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 structured, sourced facts — per-entity sentiment, story clustering and dedup, source authority (Open PageRank), full article body, streaming, a hosted MCP server, and published Agent Skills. That enrichment is what an LLM or agent needs to ground, cite, and act on, 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 500,000+ 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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