# Bing News Search

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bing-news/  
**Website:** https://www.bing.com/news  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 51.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 59.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 46.4 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bing News Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (2)

- **Bing News Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Bing News Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Bing News Plans Pricing**

## Tags

News, Search, Microsoft, Bing, Media, Headlines, Trending Topics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bing-news/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.