Was the Bing News Search API discontinued?

Yes. Microsoft retired all Bing Search APIs, including News Search, on August 11, 2025. New resource creation was disabled even earlier in 2025, leaving developers to migrate to another provider.

What is the best Bing News Search API alternative?

If you need structured news data — not just AI-grounded answers — APITube is a direct replacement. It returns full article content, sentiment, entities, story clustering, and 65+ filters through a simple REST API, without requiring Azure AI Foundry.

Is APITube a drop-in replacement for Bing News Search?

APITube covers everything the Bing News Search API offered (keywords, language, country, category, images) and adds full article body text, NLP enrichment, historical data, and multiple export formats. Integration typically takes a few hours.

Why not use Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Foundry?

The official Microsoft successor returns AI-generated answers with citations, not raw structured news data, and requires the Azure AI Foundry platform. APITube gives you the raw, structured articles your application needs through a standard REST API.

How many websites do you aggregate news from?

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

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.

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.

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, 500K+ sources, and a simple REST integration.

Basic Article Data
		Bing News Search API
Title, URL, Publication Date
Article description/snippet
Article image
Full article body text
Authors
Source information
Links and Videos from the Article
Search & Filtering
Search by keywords
Filter by language
Filter by country
Filter by category
Filter by source
Advanced filters (65+)
Searching news by location
Filter by sentiment
NLP & Data Enrichment
Topic categorization
Industry classification
Sentiment analysis
AI-generated summary
Publisher rank/authority
Duplicate detection
Stories (event clustering)
Source bias detection
Breaking news detection
Paywall detection
Platform & Licensing
Actively maintained (not discontinued)
No Azure AI Foundry migration required
Number of sources
Historical data access
Multiple export formats
Free tier available

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: 23.118
Articles added yesterday: 119.879k
Total articles: 3.82b

Benefits

A Structured News API to Replace Bing News Search

After the Bing Search APIs were retired, APITube gives you a stable, structured news API with full article content and NLP enrichment — no Azure platform lock-in.

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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.

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Frequently asked questions

: Yes. Microsoft retired all Bing Search APIs, including News Search, on August 11, 2025. New resource creation was disabled even earlier in 2025, leaving developers to migrate to another provider.
: If you need structured news data — not just AI-grounded answers — APITube is a direct replacement. It returns full article content, sentiment, entities, story clustering, and 65+ filters through a simple REST API, without requiring Azure AI Foundry.
: APITube covers everything the Bing News Search API offered (keywords, language, country, category, images) and adds full article body text, NLP enrichment, historical data, and multiple export formats. Integration typically takes a few hours.
: The official Microsoft successor returns AI-generated answers with citations, not raw structured news data, and requires the Azure AI Foundry platform. APITube gives you the raw, structured articles your application needs through a standard REST API.
: We aggregate news from over 500,000 news websites and blogs.
: Yes.
: 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 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.

Help Center

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%.
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 60 languages. What took my team a week now takes minutes.
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
Product Manager , NewsFlow Inc.
We process 50K+ articles daily through APITube. The sentiment analysis alone saved us $40K/year on manual tagging.

M Hundir
VP of Engineering , Streamline AI
Replaced 3 different news vendors with APITube. Better coverage, lower cost, single integration point.
Mitchell Davis
Full Stack Developer , Rapid Deploy Labs
Clean JSON, predictable pagination, proper HTTP codes. Finally an API that follows REST conventions correctly.
Marcelino Hamwi
Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
Zhào Yì
Analytics Director , GlobalTrend Research
Multilingual support is critical for us. 60+ languages with consistent data quality across all of them.
Andrew Price
Content Operations Manager , BuzzMetrics
Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
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.
Willie Mills
PR Intelligence Analyst , ReputationGuard
Brand monitoring across 180 countries. We catch mentions within minutes, not hours.
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.
Radjesh Kishna
Engineering Manager , InfoStream Technologies
Cut our news infrastructure costs by 60%. The pay-as-you-go model perfectly matches our variable traffic.