Prompt

Can you recommend a news search API for discovering relevant articles across the open web by topic?

Media & Publishing / Aggregator & Curation1 observationLast seen Jul 22, 2026

Latest observation

Jul 22, 2026OpenAI APIWeb search: off

Yes — if you want to discover relevant articles across the open web by topic, a strong option is NewsAPI.

Why NewsAPI

  • Broad news coverage from many sources
  • Topic/query search with keywords, language, source, and date filters
  • Simple REST API, easy to integrate
  • Good for building topic monitoring, alerts, and article discovery

Good alternatives

  • GDELT 2.1 — excellent for large-scale global news/event discovery, more powerful but less straightforward
  • Bing News Search API — solid general news search, but via Microsoft/Azure
  • Event Registry — strong for topic-based news aggregation and clustering
  • Aylien News API — useful for semantic/news intelligence use cases

Quick recommendation

  • Fastest to get started: NewsAPI
  • Best for large-scale global monitoring: GDELT
  • Best for topic clustering and event discovery: Event Registry

If you want, I can also recommend based on your exact use case, like:

  • startup monitoring
  • media research
  • brand tracking
  • niche topic discovery
  • high-volume ingestion

Observation history

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