
News Search Client
News Search Client
Bing News Search queries global news sources in real time — filter by keyword, category, region, recency. Returns title, summary, source.
Covers tens of thousands of news sources globally
Sunsets 2025-08-11
Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/news/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&freshness=Day
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About this API
News Search exposes Bing's news index — filter by keyword, category (Business, Entertainment, Sports, etc.), region, and time window. Returns title, excerpt, URL, publication time, source, and thumbnail. Differs from regular Web Search in freshness — the news index updates at minute granularity, so queries like "latest from Trump" return results from minutes ago. Common uses: brand sentiment monitoring, real-time RAG context for LLMs, news-reader aggregation. Sunsets 2025-08-11.
What you can build
- 1Brand sentiment monitoring
- 2Industry news-aggregation apps
- 3Provide real-time news context for LLMs
- 4News reader aggregation
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Covers tens of thousands of news sources globally
- Real-time freshness — minute-level latency
- Time-window filters (24h / week / month)
Limitations
- Sunsets 2025-08-11
- Returns excerpts only — not full article text
Example request
curl https://microsoft.com/<endpoint>Getting started
Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/news/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&freshness=Day
FAQ
Can I get full article text?+
No — API returns only excerpts and URLs. You'd need to fetch the URL yourself (respecting robots/copyright).
How is Chinese news coverage?+
Mainstream Chinese media (Sina, Netease, Phoenix, etc.) are covered, but depth and timeliness lag English sources.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- python, javascript, csharp, java, go
- Response time
- 64 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:37:52 AM
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