Integration · Web search and research
AI agents for NewsAPI
Search news articles from over 150,000 news sources and blogs with NewsAPI.org: today's top headlines by country, category or source, every article matching keywords in a date range, and the list of sources.
- Actions
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- Read
- 3
- Write
- 0
Actions
What your agents can do in NewsAPI
Search news articles from over 150,000 news sources and blogs with NewsAPI.org: today's top headlines by country, category or source, every article matching keywords in a date range, and the list of sources. Each article comes with its source, author, title, description, address, image and publish time.
Read 3
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Get top headlines
Returns today's breaking and top headlines: live front-page articles for a country and category, or from chosen sources, newest first, with totalResults.
Search all articles
Searches every article NewsAPI has indexed (up to 5 years back on paid plans, a month on the free plan) for keywords, and returns matching articles with totalResults.
List news sources
Lists the news publishers available for top headlines, each with id (to use in sources), name, description, url, category, language and country.
Write 0
Create, change or send.
This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.
Read only
Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in NewsAPI but cannot change anything there.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Paste an API key from your NewsAPI account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your NewsAPI data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can get top headlines, search all articles or list news sources in NewsAPI, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent NewsAPI and Slack: it can get top headlines in NewsAPI and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
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Run it as a workflow step
Add "Get top headlines" to a workflow, and it runs in NewsAPI the same way every time, with or without an agent.
Works well with
More Web search and research tools
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- Exa3 actionsSearch the web with Exa's AI search engine, read the text of any page, and get cited answers to questions, for research by agents and workflows.
- Tavily3 actionsSearch the web with Tavily's search engine built for AI agents, pull clean content out of web pages, and list the pages of a site.
- Firecrawl5 actionsTurn any web page into clean Markdown, search the web, list a site's pages, and crawl small sites, with Firecrawl.
- Wikipedia10 actionsLook things up on Wikipedia, no key needed: search articles, get an article's summary or its full text as plain text, find it in other languages, see its edit history and how many people read it.
- Google Maps9 actionsFind places and businesses (search by text or nearby, autocomplete, full place details with hours, phone, website and ratings), turn addresses into coordinates and back, plan routes with travel time and distance.
FAQ
NewsAPI and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to NewsAPI?
Yes. The NewsAPI connector has 3 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect NewsAPI?
Paste an API key from your NewsAPI account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in NewsAPI without asking?
No. Every NewsAPI action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.
Can I use NewsAPI in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every NewsAPI action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put NewsAPI to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.