Bing News Search

aid: bing-news
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bing-news/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Bing News Search
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.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- News
- Search
- Microsoft
- Bing
- Media
- Headlines
- Trending Topics
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: bing-news:news-search
  name: Bing News Search API
  description: Returns news articles relevant to a user's search query. Supports filtering by freshness, market, safe search
    level, and category. Results include article titles, descriptions, URLs, publication times, image thumbnails, and publisher
    metadata.
  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/overview
  baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search
  tags:
  - News
  - Search
  - Bing
  - Microsoft
  properties:
  - 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
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bing-news-search-openapi.json
- aid: bing-news:news-category
  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
  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
  - 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
common:
- 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