APITube

APITube is a news data API providing search and retrieval across news articles, top headlines, trends, companies, journalists, and fact-checks, with taxonomy resolution for entities, topics and locations. The public contract is an OpenAPI 3.1 document of 26 operations served from api.apitube.io, authenticated with an API key by header or query parameter. APITube also operates a first-party MCP server at mcp.apitube.io over streamable HTTP, whose tool list is readable anonymously, and publishes an RFC 9727 api-catalog linkset at the apex that names the specification, the documentation, the llms.txt and the MCP server card.

APITube publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including News API, Account API, Fact Check API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include News, Media Monitoring, News API, Fact Check, and Journalists.

The APITube catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

APITube’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, sandbox, pricing, engineering blog, support, getting-started guide, and 29 more developer resources.

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News Media Monitoring News API Fact CheckJournalists

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Media, Creator & Social

AE-170

News

GET /v1/news/top-headlines

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 64.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 12.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 15

Access Clarity 11.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 6.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
News and Media	distribution	19.2 (thin)	1	1
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	distribution	19.2 (thin)	1	1
Official SDKs on Packagist, pub.dev and Hex	distribution	19.2 (thin)	1	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

APITube News API

News search and retrieval — everything, top headlines, trends, companies, journalists, fact-checks and taxonomy suggestion. 26 operations, API key by header or query.

APITube Account API

API key balance and subscription plan information.

APITube Fact Check API

Verify factual claims against the live news corpus (retrieval-augmented). Returns per-claim verdicts on an 8-level scale with confidence, explanation, and supporting evidence.

APITube Reference API

The Reference API from APITube — 7 operation(s) for reference.

APITube Suggest API

Autocomplete and typeahead suggestions for entities.

APITube System API

Health checks and service status.

APITube Utilities API

Helper endpoints for building queries

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MCP Servers 2

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

APITube MCP Server

Search and filter global news articles by language, category, sentiment, entities, media and more.

MCP SERVER

APITube News MCP-Server

First-party hosted MCP server for the APITube News API. Streamable HTTP JSON-RPC at https://mcp.apitube.io/ — no package to install. Two tools (search_news, suggest) and four re...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

apitube-news-api

AGENT SKILL

APITube pricing

Prices published by APITube, read 2026-10-28 from apitube.io/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0 Includes: 100 requests/day
Starter	$29 Includes: 10,000 requests/month
Starter (yearly)	$279 Includes: 10,000 requests/month
Basic	$99 Includes: 50,000 requests/month
Basic (yearly)	$959 Includes: 50,000 requests/month
Professional	$199 Includes: 150,000 requests/month
Professional (yearly)	$1919 Includes: 150,000 requests/month
Pay-as-You-Go	$0.01 per API request Includes: Minimum top-up is $1 (100 credits)

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

: 10 1 minute (rolling)
: 50 1 minute (rolling)
: 200 1 minute (rolling)

All 8 limits →

Billed by: api request · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

APITube Plans Pricing

8 plans

PLANS

APITube Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

APITube Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

APITube

9 quoted statements, read from APITube's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

APITube

11 quoted statements, read from APITube's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

APITube

1 quoted statement, read from APITube's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

APITube

2 quoted statements, read from APITube's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

APITube Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Apitube Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

APITube API Rules

68 rules · 57 error-severity 7 warn-severity 4 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 7

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

APITube Account Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-account-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube Fact Check Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-fact-check-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube News Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-news-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube Reference Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-reference-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube Suggest Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-suggest-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube System Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-system-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

APITube Utilities Api Overlay

2 actions · update · apitube-utilities-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

APITube Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

APITube Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

Sandbox

GettingStarted

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Webhooks

Conventions

Conformance

DataModel

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Postman

Postman

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Support

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

APICatalog

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: apitube
name: APITube
description: APITube is a news data API providing search and retrieval across news articles, top headlines, trends, companies,
  journalists, and fact-checks, with taxonomy resolution for entities, topics and locations. The public contract is an OpenAPI
  3.1 document of 26 operations served from api.apitube.io, authenticated with an API key by header or query parameter. APITube
  also operates a first-party MCP server at mcp.apitube.io over streamable HTTP, whose tool list is readable anonymously,
  and publishes an RFC 9727 api-catalog linkset at the apex that names the specification, the documentation, the llms.txt
  and the MCP server card.
type: Index
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apitube/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
created: '2026-08-21'
modified: '2026-09-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: vitepress
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-19
tags:
- News
- Media Monitoring
- News API
- Fact Check
- Journalists
tags_raw:
- news
- media monitoring
- news api
- fact check
- journalists
apis:
- aid: apitube:apitube-news-api
  name: APITube News API
  description: News search and retrieval — everything, top headlines, trends, companies, journalists, fact-checks and taxonomy
    suggestion. 26 operations, API key by header or query.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - News
  - Search
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apitube.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.apitube.io/openapi.json
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/apitube-mcp-server-card.json
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/apitube-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.apitube.io
- aid: apitube:apitube-account-api
  name: APITube Account API
  description: API key balance and subscription plan information.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - Account
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-account-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-account-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: apitube:apitube-fact-check-api
  name: APITube Fact Check API
  description: Verify factual claims against the live news corpus (retrieval-augmented). Returns per-claim verdicts on an
    8-level scale with confidence, explanation, and supporting evidence.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - Fact Check
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-fact-check-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-fact-check-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: apitube:apitube-reference-api
  name: APITube Reference API
  description: The Reference API from APITube — 7 operation(s) for reference.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - Reference
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-reference-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-reference-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: apitube:apitube-suggest-api
  name: APITube Suggest API
  description: Autocomplete and typeahead suggestions for entities.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - Suggest
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-suggest-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-suggest-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: apitube:apitube-system-api
  name: APITube System API
  description: Health checks and service status.
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - System
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-system-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-system-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: apitube:apitube-utilities-api
  name: APITube Utilities API
  description: Helper endpoints for building queries
  humanURL: https://docs.apitube.io
  baseURL: https://api.apitube.io
  tags:
  - Utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apitube-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/apitube-utilities-api-overlay.yaml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/apitube-capability-edges.yml
  name: APITube Business Capability Map
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apitube-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/apitube-authentication.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/apitube-api-catalog.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/apitube-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/apitube-mcp.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://apitube.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.apitube.io
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/apitube-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/apitube-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/apitube-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/apitube-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/apitube-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/apitube-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/apitube-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.apitube.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/apitube-changelog.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/apitube-webhooks.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/apitube-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/apitube-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/apitube-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/apitube-data-model.yml
- type: Postman
  url: https://www.postman.com/apitube/apitube/overview
- type: Pricing
  url: https://apitube.io/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://apitube.io/terms/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://apitube.io/terms/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://apitube.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apitube
- type: Support
  url: https://apitube.io/contact
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://apitube.io/product/news-api/quick-start
- type: SignUp
  url: https://apitube.io/#sign-up
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/apitube-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/apitube-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/apitube-eligibility.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/apitube-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: APITube
  url: https://apitube.io
  email: support@apitube.io
x-provenance:
  added: '2026-08-21'
  method: searched
  source: https://apitube.io/.well-known/api-catalog
  note: 'Submitted via apis.io/add on 2026-08-20 from apitubehq@gmail.com. THE SUBMITTED APIs.json URL IS WRONG: https://apitube.io/apis.json
    returns 404, and so does a control path, so the 404 is real rather than a catch-all. That is a bad pointer in the submission,
    NOT an absent surface — APITube publishes plenty. Everything here was discovered from the RFC 9727 api-catalog at the
    apex instead, which is the authoritative discovery document. TWO OPENAPI DOCUMENTS EXIST AND THEY DISAGREE. https://api.apitube.io/openapi.json
    is OpenAPI 3.1.0 with 26 paths and no component schemas; https://apitube.io/openapi.json is OpenAPI 3.0.3 with 5 paths
    and 13 schemas. Both were fetched and both are kept under openapi/_original/. The api-catalog names the api.apitube.io
    copy as `service-desc`, so that one is treated as canonical and is the working document. The apex copy is retained as
    evidence of the discrepancy; it is the provider''s to reconcile. The MCP server at https://mcp.apitube.io/ was probed
    live and answered tools/list anonymously with two tools, search_news and suggest. The REST API was probed at api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything
    and returned 401 JSON, which is correct gating.'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: local-v2

APITube — frequently asked questions

Does APITube have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from APITube, including APITube News API, APITube Account API and APITube Fact Check API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the APITube?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for APITube, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the APITube?

APITube uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as APITube Authentication.

How much does the APITube cost?

APITube publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 8 pricing plans for APITube, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does APITube have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 MCP servers for APITube: Search and filter global news articles by language, category, sentiment, entities, media and more.

Is the APITube ready for AI agents?

APITube has a Kin Score of 64.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 44.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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