News search guide / 2026
AI News Search API for Current Research in 2026
News workflows need recency controls and provenance. A concise article feed helps an agent identify current coverage without treating a headline or summary as the full story.
Quick answer
Use a timeframe when recency is part of the question.
Set language, country, and a timeframe when an agent needs a particular market or window, then read original publisher links for full context.
curl --get 'https://webstractor.com/api/extract' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://example.com/' \
--data-urlencode 'format=json'Available data
What you can extract
- Up to 50 article candidates
- Publisher, title, date, summary, and source link
- Language and country controls
- Recent-timeframe cutoffs
AI workflows
Where normalized data helps
- Current-events chat
- Policy and company monitoring
- News briefing agents
- Publisher discovery
AI-ready output
Markdown for models. JSON for systems.
Raw HTML consumes tokens on navigation, scripts, styling, and interface labels. Clean Markdown keeps the readable hierarchy for LLM prompts and RAG chunks. Normalized JSON is better when your application needs an explicit semantic type, source, author, publication date, media, attributes, and collection items.
Always retain the canonical URL from the response. AI-generated summaries should remain traceable to the public source, especially when the underlying page can change.
Boundaries
Public data only
- Results are article metadata, not full publisher bodies.
- Undated articles are excluded when a timeframe is selected.
- Ranking changes over time.
webstractor.com does not bypass CAPTCHAs, login walls, paywalls, access controls, or regional restrictions. Review the source’s terms and applicable law before collecting or reusing data.
Ready to try it?