Webz.io News API

Webz.io News API

The Webz.io News API delivers structured, machine-readable news data at scale — over 3.5 million articles per day from millions of sources across 170+ languages and 200+ countries, with historical coverage going back to 2008. It powers media monitoring, financial and risk intelligence, and news-grounded AI applications.

Base endpoint: https://api.webz.io/api/news · Free trial (Lite): https://api.webz.io/newsApiLite

Docs: docs.webz.io · Pricing: webz.io/pricing

How to Get a Webz.io API Token

1. Sign up at webz.io — the News API Lite tier is free for testing, no credit card required.
2. Open your Webz.io dashboard; your API token is shown on the account/API page.
3. Pass it as the token query parameter on every request.

Free News API Lite gives you global coverage with Boolean search and a 30-day historical window for evaluation. Production plans (like Pro) unlock higher volume, full historical archive access, and the complete field set — see pricing.

First Request (cURL)

curl -G "https://api.webz.io/api/news" \
  --data-urlencode "token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode 'q="artificial intelligence" language:english'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.webz.io/api/news",
    params={
        "token": "YOUR_TOKEN",
        "q": '"electric vehicles" language:english site_type:news',
        "size": 10,
        "sort": "crawled",
    },
)
data = resp.json()
for post in data["posts"]:
    print(post["title"], "—", post["url"])

JavaScript

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  token: 'YOUR_TOKEN',
  q: '"interest rates" language:english',
  size: '10',
});

const res = await fetch(`https://api.webz.io/api/news?${params}`);
const data = await res.json();
data.posts.forEach((p) => console.log(p.title, p.published));

Query Filters

The q parameter accepts Boolean logic and field filters for precise targeting:

Filter	Example	Purpose
Phrase / Boolean	"climate change" AND (policy OR regulation)	Natural-language and Boolean queries
language:	language:english	Restrict by language (170+ supported)
site_type:	site_type:news	News, blogs, or discussions
thread.country:	thread.country:US	Filter by country of publication
ts	ts=1720000000000	Return posts crawled after a timestamp
allowNewsHistory	allowNewsHistory=true	Search beyond the default recent window
size, sort, order	size=100&sort=crawled	Page size and result ordering

Response Fields

Each item in the posts array includes rich metadata:

• Article — uuid, url, title, text (full content), author, published, language
• Sentiment — document and entity-level sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
• Entities — extracted persons, organizations, and locations
• Social signals — Facebook, Pinterest, and other share/engagement counts
• Classification — categories, plus fake-news / satire detection tags

The envelope also returns totalResults, moreResultsAvailable, next (pagination cursor), and requestsLeft (remaining quota).

Use Cases

• Media intelligence — brand, competitor, and topic monitoring at global scale
• Risk & compliance — adverse-media screening, AML, and ESG signals
• Financial analysis — market-moving news, sentiment, and event detection
• AI & LLMs — grounding retrieval-augmented apps in fresh, licensed news data

Start with the free News API Lite →