Bing News Search

Microsoft Bing News Search REST API enables developers to retrieve relevant news articles, trending topics, and category-filtered news with image thumbnails and publisher metadata. The API provides search queries against Bing's news index, returning results with titles, descriptions, URLs, publication dates, and related media content.

Bing News Search publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including News Category API, News Search API, Trending Topics API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include News, Search, Microsoft, Bing, and Media.

The Bing News Search catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Bing News Search’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, API reference, pricing, getting-started guide, support, and 12 more developer resources.

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0.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

News Search Microsoft Bing Media HeadlinesTrending TopicsDefunct

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

Bing News Category API

Returns top news articles filtered by category (e.g., Business, Entertainment, Sports, Health, ScienceAndTechnology, Politics, World). Supports multiple markets with locale-spec...

Bing Trending News Topics API

Returns news topics that are currently trending on social networks. Supports filtering by Unix epoch timestamp (since parameter) to retrieve topics discovered after a specific p...

Bing News Search News Category API

Get top news articles by category

Bing News Search News Search API

Search for news articles by keyword query

Bing News Search Trending Topics API

Get currently trending news topics from social networks

Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Bing News Search API v7 News Category API

POSTMAN

Bing API v7 News Category News Search API

POSTMAN

Bing News Search API v7 News Category Trending Topics API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bing News Search API v7 News Category API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bing API v7 News Category News Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bing News Search API v7 News Category Trending Topics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bing News Search API pricing

Not yet checked against Bing News Search's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free (F1) freemium	Free
Standard (S1) paid	$7.00 per 1K transactions · Free

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier (F1) - Queries Per Second: 3 requests per second
Free Tier (F1) - Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Standard Tier (S1) - Queries Per Second: 100 requests per second

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Bing News Search's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bing News Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bing News Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Bing News Search

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Bing News Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Bing News Search — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

NewsArticle

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TrendingTopic

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

News Category Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

News Search Response

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Bing News Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Bing News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bing News Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bing-news
url: https://www.bing.com/news
name: Bing News Search
x-parent: microsoft
description: Microsoft Bing News Search REST API enables developers to retrieve relevant news articles, trending topics, and
  category-filtered news with image thumbnails and publisher metadata. The API provides search queries against Bing's news
  index, returning results with titles, descriptions, URLs, publication dates, and related media content.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  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: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bing-news.png
tags:
- News
- Search
- Microsoft
- Bing
- Media
- Headlines
- Trending Topics
- Defunct
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: bing-news:news-category
  x-status: retired
  x-status-basis: 'Microsoft Lifecycle, fetched 2026-09-23: Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11; existing instances decommissioned,
    no new signups; successor is Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement
    (roadmap#623)'
  name: Bing News Category API
  description: Returns top news articles filtered by category (e.g., Business, Entertainment, Sports, Health, ScienceAndTechnology,
    Politics, World). Supports multiple markets with locale-specific category taxonomies. No search query is required; results
    reflect top headlines for the chosen category in the specified market.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/category-news
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news
  tags:
  - News
  - Category
  - Headlines
  - Bing
  - Microsoft
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/category-news
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
- aid: bing-news:trending-topics
  x-status: retired
  x-status-basis: 'Microsoft Lifecycle, fetched 2026-09-23: Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11; existing instances decommissioned,
    no new signups; successor is Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement
    (roadmap#623)'
  name: Bing Trending News Topics API
  description: Returns news topics that are currently trending on social networks. Supports filtering by Unix epoch timestamp
    (since parameter) to retrieve topics discovered after a specific point in time. Results include topic names, related search
    queries, and image thumbnails. Only available in supported markets.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/trending-news
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/trendingtopics
  tags:
  - News
  - Trending
  - Social
  - Topic
  - Bing
  - Microsoft
  tags_raw:
  - News
  - Trending
  - Social
  - Topics
  - Bing
  - Microsoft
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/trending-news
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
- aid: bing-news:bing-news-news-category-api
  x-status: retired
  x-status-basis: 'Microsoft Lifecycle, fetched 2026-09-23: Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11; existing instances decommissioned,
    no new signups; successor is Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement
    (roadmap#623)'
  name: Bing News Search News Category API
  description: Get top news articles by category
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search
  tags:
  - News Category
  tags_raw:
  - News Category
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bing-news-news-category-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/bing-news-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/bing-news-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/bing-news-finops.yml
- aid: bing-news:bing-news-news-search-api
  x-status: retired
  x-status-basis: 'Microsoft Lifecycle, fetched 2026-09-23: Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11; existing instances decommissioned,
    no new signups; successor is Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement
    (roadmap#623)'
  name: Bing News Search News Search API
  description: Search for news articles by keyword query
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search
  tags:
  - News Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bing-news-news-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/bing-news-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/bing-news-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/bing-news-finops.yml
- aid: bing-news:bing-news-trending-topics-api
  x-status: retired
  x-status-basis: 'Microsoft Lifecycle, fetched 2026-09-23: Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11; existing instances decommissioned,
    no new signups; successor is Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement
    (roadmap#623)'
  name: Bing News Search Trending Topics API
  description: Get currently trending news topics from social networks
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search
  tags:
  - Trending Topics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bing-news-trending-topics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/bing-news-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/bing-news-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/bing-news-finops.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bing-news-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bing-news-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bing-news-finops.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/bing-news-search/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bing-news-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bing-news-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bing-news-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bing.com/news
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
- type: Authentication
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/create-bing-search-service-resource
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/legal
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/quickstarts/quickstarts
- type: SDKs
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/cognitive-services/Bing-News-Search/quickstarts/client-libraries
- type: Support
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/142/bing-category-bing-search-apis-azure-bing-news
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/microsoft
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-status: defunct
x-successor: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry-classic/agents/how-to/tools-classic/bing-grounding
x-status-basis: 'Bing Search APIs retired 2025-08-11 per Microsoft Lifecycle (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement,
  fetched 2026-09-23): existing instances decommissioned, no new signups. Every API in this record is that product. Endpoints
  still answer 401 to a keyless probe, so the lifecycle page is the evidence. roadmap#623'

Bing News Search API — frequently asked questions

Does Bing News Search have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Bing News Search, including Bing News Category API, Bing Trending News Topics API and Bing News Search News Category API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Bing News Search API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Bing News Search, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Bing News Search API?

Bing News Search uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bing News Authentication.

How much does the Bing News Search API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Bing News Search, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Bing News Search API ready for AI agents?

Bing News Search has a Kin Score of 0.0 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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