News Search API

Search Global News in
Natural Language

Describe the news you’re looking for in plain language. Webz.io finds the most relevant articles across its global coverage, ready for your product, research, or AI application. Refine results by language, country, source, date, sentiment, and category.

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Built for the Way Your
Product Searches News

AI Applications & RAG

Connect AI applications to current news data without building a separate news search layer. Send a natural-language query and use the returned article and relevant content chunk as grounded source material.

AI Applications & RAG

Media Intelligence

Let users research brands, people, events, competitors, and topics without forcing them to become Boolean-search experts. Narrow the results by market, source, sentiment, category, or date.

Media Intelligence

Risk Intelligence

Search for situations such as supplier disruptions, regulatory investigations, product recalls, lawsuits, or geopolitical events, then focus the search on the countries, sources, and time periods that matter.

Risk Intelligence

Financial Analysis

Find company announcements, market developments, management changes, M&A activity, layoffs, regulatory news, and other events using the language an analyst would naturally use to describe them.

Financial Analysis

Big News Data Coverage

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From Your Question to Relevant News

How the Webz.io
News Search API Delivers More

Natural-Language Search Search the way people actually ask questions. Describe the topic, event, company, or situation you want to find instead of constructing a complex Boolean query.

Relevant Results Focus on the news that best matches your search. Relevance controls help you surface stronger matches instead of working through large volumes of loosely related articles.

Matching Content Chunks Matching Content Chunks
Receive the relevant article section alongside the full article, helping explain each match and providing focused content for downstream applications.

Precision Filters Turn a broad question into a focused search. Filter results by language, country, source, publication date, sentiment, and category.

Global News Coverage Global News Coverage
Search 3.5 million daily articles across 170+ languages and 200+ countries, drawing from Webz.io’s extensive global network of news sources.

Structured Results Receive article information, the matching content chunk, relevance data, and API credit information in a response built for software integration.


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Narrow the Search

Filters That Put You in
Control

Language

Language

Limit results to news published in the languages relevant to your users, markets, or analysis.

Country

Country

Focus the search on news associated with a specific country or geographic market.

Source

Source

Include the publishers and news sources you care about and focus searches on the right source set.

Date

Date

Define the time period for the search so results match the event or research window you’re investigating.

Sentiment

Sentiment

Narrow results by sentiment to focus on positive, neutral, or negative coverage.

Category

Category

Limit results to relevant news categories and remove unrelated stories from the result set.

Language

Language

Language

Limit results to news published in the languages relevant to your users, markets, or analysis.

Country

Country

Country

Focus the search on news associated with a specific country or geographic market.

Source

Source

Source

Include the publishers and news sources you care about and focus searches on the right source set.

Date

Date

Date

Define the time period for the search so results match the event or research window you’re investigating.

Sentiment

Sentiment

Sentiment

Narrow results by sentiment to focus on positive, neutral, or negative coverage.

Category

Category

Category

Limit results to relevant news categories and remove unrelated stories from the result set.

Spreading

The Good News

Complete Coverage

“There isn’t much Webz.io doesn’t cover. I don’t think there is anyone providing such wide coverage”

— Aditya Shankar
Senior Product Manager

Unmatched Performance

“The Mention team reported unprecedented results delivered by Webz.io across every conceivable KPI including superior source coverage, up-to-the-minute live data latency, and incredible responsiveness to ongoing data integration requests.”

— Matthieu Vaxelaire
CEO

Effortless Integration

“Webz.io has several key advantages: A very easy set-up and API integration, straightforward and competitive pricing, the ability to add new sources quickly and easily, rich metadata, and superior data quality.”

— Marcus Norrving
CEO & Co-Founder

More Sources, More Value

“Webz.io’s main value is the API and the coverage. Our users need many sources. I think this is where Webz.io stands out.”

— Ido Ivri
CTO

Expert Solution, Unrivaled Support

“From initial inquiry to implementation, The Webz.io team were extremely helpful, knowledgeable, and professional. Their expertise in technology coupled with their unrivaled business vision has made Webz.io the most valuable provider to BrainMustard.”

— Reza Sabernia
Founder

Clean Data, Easy Integration

“Clean data returned, easy to implement, great support. Access to forums is a must we really appreciate.”

— Gianandrea Facchini
Runner and CEO

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What is the Webz.io News Search API? arrow icon

How is News Search API different from the Webz.io News API?
News Search API is designed around natural-language search and relevance. You describe what you want to find as a normal question or phrase.
The existing News API supports Boolean query syntax for building precisely defined feeds and searches.

How is News Search API different from the Webz.io News API? arrow icon

News Search API is designed around natural-language search and relevance. You describe what you want to find as a normal question or phrase.
The existing News API supports Boolean query syntax for building precisely defined feeds and searches.

Do I need to write Boolean queries? arrow icon

No. The News Search API accepts natural-language news queries. You can then use structured filters to narrow the results.

What can I filter my searches by? arrow icon

You can narrow News Search API results by language, country, source, date, sentiment, and category.

What does the API return? arrow icon

The response includes information about the matching article, the relevant content chunk, relevance information, and credit usage.

How much news does Webz.io cover? arrow icon

Webz.io currently states coverage of more than 3.5 million news articles each day from 300,000+ news sites, spanning 170+ languages and 200+ countries.

Can I use News Search API in an AI application? arrow icon

Yes. Natural-language queries and focused content chunks make the API a good fit for AI assistants, RAG systems, research tools, and other applications that need to retrieve relevant news before generating or analyzing an answer. This is a product-use inference based on the API’s natural-language querying and chunk-based response format.

Find the News You Need

Search Without Building

Complex Queries

Traditional news APIs make you predict the keywords an article will contain and translate your research question into search syntax.

Before — the query you maintain

(layoff* OR "job cuts" OR "cuts jobs" OR "reduction in force" OR redundanc* OR downsiz* OR "workforce reduction" OR RIF OR "let go" OR "staff reduction" OR "headcount reduction")AND (merger OR merge* OR acquisition OR acquir* OR "M&A"OR takeover OR "bought by" OR "deal close*" OR integration OR "combined company" OR "post-merger" OR consolidat*)AND NOT (rumor* OR speculat* OR "could" OR "may consider" OR opinion OR editorial OR "job fair" OR hiring)

…and 40 more terms, per topic, per language

60+

Terms and synonyms

9

Boolean operators

Ongoing

Query upkeep\

Now — the question you ask

“Companies announcing layoffs following a merger or acquisition”

Rather than maintaining a long collection of company names, synonyms, event terms, and Boolean operators.

Then use filters to control where and when you want to search.

United States

English

Last 30 days

Negative

Business

Max results: 10

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Question, in plain language

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Operators to learn

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Filters to narrow it

Ready-to-Go

Natural-Language News Search API

The API returns the matching article together with the relevant content chunk, relevance information, and credit data.

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