Was the Bing News Search API discontinued?

Yes. Microsoft shut down all Bing Search APIs, including News Search, on August 11, 2025. New resources were disabled earlier in 2025.

What is the best Bing News Search API alternative?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

How many news sources do you cover?

We cover over 300,000 news websites and blogs.

What filters can I use?

Use 65+ filters alongside keywords. Narrow results by publication date, topic, language, source, country, and more.

How do I connect to the API?

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.

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.

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

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

Industry Monitoring

Brand Monitoring

Market news and trends

Risk Management

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Integrations

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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.

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.

Full data models

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.

Help Center

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Investigative Journalist , The Daily Chronicle
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Automated our entire news curation workflow. Team now focuses on analysis instead of data collection.
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Data Science Lead , Predictive Edge
The historical data access let us backtest 5 years of news sentiment against market movements.
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Full Stack Developer , Rapid Deploy Labs
Clean JSON, predictable pagination, proper HTTP codes. Finally an API that follows REST conventions correctly.
Radjesh Kishna
Engineering Manager , InfoStream Technologies
Cut our news infrastructure costs by 60%. The pay-as-you-go model perfectly matches our variable traffic.
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PR Intelligence Analyst , ReputationGuard
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