What is a streaming news API?

A streaming news API delivers articles over a persistent connection instead of making you request them repeatedly. APITube streams matching, enriched articles over Server-Sent Events and WebSocket as they are indexed, so your system reacts without a polling loop.

What is the difference between SSE and WebSocket on APITube?

Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a one-way stream from APITube to your client and is simple to consume over plain HTTP. WebSocket is a two-way connection useful when your client also needs to send messages. Both deliver the same enriched articles from your query.

When do articles arrive on the stream?

APITube pushes articles as they are indexed, in the order they enter the index. That means your stream reflects coverage in near real time rather than on a fixed polling interval you have to manage yourself.

How is streaming different from polling the REST API?

Polling means repeatedly asking the REST API for new results and diffing them yourself. Streaming keeps one connection open and hands you each matching article as it is indexed, which is simpler and lower-latency for alerting and live dashboards.

Can I filter what the stream sends?

Yes. A stream is driven by the same query filters as the REST API, so you can subscribe to a specific topic, entity, language, or sentiment and receive only matching articles.

What data comes back on the stream?

Each streamed article carries the full enriched schema: entities with knowledge-graph links, sentiment at overall, title, body, and per-entity level, categories, and a source with bias and Open PageRank authority.

Is streaming available on the free plan?

Streaming runs on a separate streaming quota and is available on paid plans. The free tier is designed for evaluating the REST API and the full enriched schema before you move to live streaming.

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Streaming API for News

Last updated: July 22, 2026

Stop polling. Open one connection and let APITube push matching articles to you the moment they are indexed — over Server-Sent Events or WebSocket, each enriched with entities, sentiment, and sources.

Realtime news articles from 177 countries

in 60 languages

Benefits

Live news, pushed to you as it is indexed

A streaming news API pushes articles to you over a live connection instead of making you poll. APITube streams matching articles over Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket as they are indexed, each already enriched with entities, sentiment, categories, and source authority, so agents and pipelines react in near real time.

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Stream over Server-Sent Events (SSE)

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React to matching articles as they are indexed

Filter the stream by your query

Same enriched schema: entities, sentiment, source authority

One API key across REST, streaming, and MCP

59 languages, 177+ countries

Use cases

Discover the possibilities

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.

Alerts

Real-time alerting

Fire an alert the moment a matching article about a company, topic, or risk is indexed.

Dashboards

Live dashboards

Feed a live view of coverage, sentiment, and entities without a polling job behind it.

Finance

Low-latency signals

React to breaking coverage and per-entity sentiment as it lands for market and alt-data signals.

Agents

Event-driven agents

Trigger an agent workflow on each streamed article instead of scheduling repeated checks.

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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Search by Story
Search by Publisher Rank
Search by Language
Search by Entity
Search by Keywords
Boolean Search
Proximity Search
Faceted Search
Range Queries
Search by Author
Search by Media Type
Search by Breaking News
Search by Read Time
+ over 65 more filters

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

: A streaming news API delivers articles over a persistent connection instead of making you request them repeatedly. APITube streams matching, enriched articles over Server-Sent Events and WebSocket as they are indexed, so your system reacts without a polling loop.
: Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a one-way stream from APITube to your client and is simple to consume over plain HTTP. WebSocket is a two-way connection useful when your client also needs to send messages. Both deliver the same enriched articles from your query.
: APITube pushes articles as they are indexed, in the order they enter the index. That means your stream reflects coverage in near real time rather than on a fixed polling interval you have to manage yourself.
: Polling means repeatedly asking the REST API for new results and diffing them yourself. Streaming keeps one connection open and hands you each matching article as it is indexed, which is simpler and lower-latency for alerting and live dashboards.
: Yes. A stream is driven by the same query filters as the REST API, so you can subscribe to a specific topic, entity, language, or sentiment and receive only matching articles.
: Each streamed article carries the full enriched schema: entities with knowledge-graph links, sentiment at overall, title, body, and per-entity level, categories, and a source with bias and Open PageRank authority.
: Streaming runs on a separate streaming quota and is available on paid plans. The free tier is designed for evaluating the REST API and the full enriched schema before you move to live streaming.