Search News · News API
Run one live News search and receive the ranked news articles and top-stories blocks for a query, including title, publisher domain, snippet, image, and publish time.
Using ChatGPT, Claude Code or another client? See the setup steps
curl -X POST https://api.unifapi.com/news/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json"
This operation is part of the News API in the news category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs News public data alongside other news and community sources, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Search News for public mentions, creators, posts, or topics matching a user query.
- Feed ranked News results into research, monitoring, and enrichment workflows.
- Give an AI agent a stable News data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize News responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 10 credits ($0.01) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 10 credits ($0.01) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Search News call returns one data object with these fields.
- querystring
- locationstring
- languagestring
- viewstring
- observed_atstring
- search_urlstring
- item_typesstring[]
- SERP element types present in the result, in source order.
- total_resultsinteger
- result_countinteger
- Number of result elements returned.
- resultsobject[]
- News SERP elements in source order. News articles and top-stories blocks are billable; ads are free context.
Agents & Skills built on News
You rarely call Search News by hand. These prebuilt agents and skills already read News data inside Claude or Codex — start from one of them, or call this endpoint yourself.
Agents
More News operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.