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News Search API for AI Agents

Live news search across major outlets with built-in country and date filtering. Designed for morning-briefing bots, market-news agents, and any RAG pipeline that needs to ground answers in current events.

15 credits / call60 req / minPOST /api/search/news

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API Integration Guide

Learn how to integrate this API into your applications with code examples and detailed documentation.

API Overview
Real-time news search with date-range and country filters. Returns ranked headlines with clean snippets ready for downstream LLMs.
POST
/api/search/news

Base URL

https://www.apipick.com

Full Endpoint

https://www.apipick.com/api/search/news
Parameters
Required and optional parameters for this API
query
required
string

Natural-language search query

max_num_results
optional
integer

1–5, default 5

relevance_threshold
optional
number

0.0–1.0 quality filter

country_code
optional
string

ISO country code (e.g. US, GB)

start_date
optional
string

ISO date YYYY-MM-DD

end_date
optional
string

ISO date YYYY-MM-DD

Code Examples
Copy and paste these examples to quickly integrate the API into your application

cURL Request

curl -X POST "https://www.apipick.com/api/search/news" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "query": "Apple earnings Q1 2026",
  "max_num_results": 5,
  "country_code": "US",
  "start_date": "2026-01-01"
}'
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key
Response Example
Example response from the API

JSON Response

{
  "query": "Apple earnings Q1 2026",
  "results": [
    {
      "title": "Example result",
      "url": "https://example.com/article",
      "snippet": "Short excerpt of the page content…",
      "source_type": "web",
      "published_at": "2026-04-15",
      "score": 0.92
    }
  ],
  "result_count": 1,
  "credits_used": 15,
  "remaining_credits": 99
}
Integration Tips

✓Best Practices

  • • Always include x-api-key header
  • • Always handle errors gracefully
  • • Validate input data before sending
  • • Use HTTPS for secure communication
  • • Cache responses when appropriate

ℹResponse Headers

  • • Content-Type: application/json
  • • x-api-key: Required for authentication
  • • Status codes: 200 (success), 400 (error), 401 (unauthorized)
  • • No rate limiting applied

Rate Limits

⏱️

Request Rate

60req / min

Per API key, per endpoint. Sliding 60-second window.

🔀

Concurrency

3concurrent

Max simultaneous in-flight requests per API key.

Response Headers

X-RateLimit-LimitMaximum requests allowed per minute
X-RateLimit-RemainingRequests remaining in the current window
X-RateLimit-ResetSeconds until the current window resets
Retry-AfterSeconds to wait before retrying (only on 429)

429 Too Many Requests

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Retry-After: 12
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 0
X-RateLimit-Reset: 12

{
  "error": "rate_limit_exceeded",
  "message": "Rate limit exceeded: 60 requests/minute per API key. Retry after 12s.",
  "retry_after": 12
}

Frequently Asked Questions

How fresh are the results?

Results include articles indexed in the last few minutes. Use start_date / end_date to scope to a specific window, e.g. last 24 hours for breaking news or last quarter for earnings coverage.

Can I filter by country?

Yes. country_code accepts ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (US, GB, JP, DE, …). It biases results toward sources from that country.

What's the difference vs. /api/search/web?

The news endpoint is tuned for journalistic sources with publication dates and prefers timely articles. /api/search/web is better for general reference content (docs, Wikipedia-like, evergreen pages).

Is there a tool schema for AI agents?

Yes. GET /api/search/news/tool-schema returns OpenAI function and Claude tool use definitions ready to paste into agent code.