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Webz.io News Search API lets developers search global news using natural-language queries instead of relying only on complex Boolean search syntax.

Describe the news you want to find in plain language, and the API returns the most relevant articles and matching content. Results can then be narrowed using structured filters.

Key Features

• Natural-language search Search using normal questions or descriptions such as:

  Companies announcing layoffs after a merger or acquisition
  

• Sentiment filtering Filter results by sentiment to focus on positive, neutral, or negative news coverage.

• Category filtering Narrow searches to specific news categories, helping remove unrelated results and improve precision.

• Additional filters Refine searches by:

  • Country
  • Language
  • Source
  • Publication date

• Broad news coverage Search across Webz.io's large global news dataset, covering hundreds of thousands of news sources.

• Relevant content chunks Results can include the part of an article most relevant to the search, which is especially useful for AI and RAG applications.

• Structured API responses Retrieve article data, relevant content, relevance information, and credit usage in a format designed for software integration.

Example Search

Instead of building a long Boolean query, you can search for:

Negative news about semiconductor companies facing production delays

Then apply filters such as:

Sentiment: Negative
Category: Business
Language: English
Date: Last 30 days

This combination of semantic search and structured filtering makes it easier to retrieve focused news results without maintaining complex keyword logic.

Common Use Cases

RAG and AI Applications

Retrieve recent, relevant news and pass matching article content into an LLM as context.

AI Agents

Give agents access to current news so they can research companies, industries, events, and markets as part of a workflow.

Media Monitoring

Track specific topics, brands, competitors, or events while filtering coverage by sentiment and category.

Financial Research

Search for earnings developments, management changes, M&A activity, layoffs, market events, and other company-related news.

Risk Intelligence

Find news about regulatory investigations, supply-chain disruptions, cyber incidents, sanctions, lawsuits, recalls, and other risk events.

Competitive Intelligence

Monitor competitors, product launches, partnerships, executive changes, expansion plans, and market activity.

Why Webz.io News Search API

Many news APIs support basic filtering by source, country, language, and date.

Webz.io combines those controls with natural-language search, sentiment filtering, and category filtering, giving developers more control over both what they search for and which results are returned.

Free Monthly Credit

Webz.io provides $5 in free News Search API credit every month, making it possible to test the API and build prototypes before moving to higher usage.

Documentation

https://docs.webz.io/docs/webz/news-search-api