Africa-first coverage • Revenue-safe API

Ship a paywall-free news experience your customers trust.

News Scout ingests 350+ sources across Africa and the globe, cleans every article with AI, and meters usage so you can sell dashboards, alerts, and research products without wrestling infrastructure.

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263

News Sources

5,756

Articles Ingested

210

African Sources

Countries Covered

Live API previewTarget: https://api.apiscout.net


curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.apiscout.net/articles?q=climate&limit=5"

// response
{
  "data": [
    {
      "title": "Climate summit strikes historic deal",
      "published_at": "2024-07-01T12:45:00Z",
      "source": "aljazeera.com",
      "url": "https://aljazeera.com/..."
    }
  ]
}

AI paywall bypass

Full-text extraction

350+ sources

Real-time ingestion

Conversion-grade content

AI extraction keeps headlines and full articles clean, unified, and paywall-free so your users get the whole story on the first click.

Africa-first coverage

350+ vetted sources across 50+ countries with deep African entertainment, business, and politics coverage your competitors can’t match.

Revenue guardrails

Stripe-native tiers, strict rate limits, usage metering, and audit logs so finance, compliance, and support stay happy while you scale.

Data depth

Why teams pick us over generic news APIs

Borrowing the best ideas from top providers and pairing them with Africa-first coverage.

Global coverage

150k+ publishers in 60+ languages with Africa-first depth and curated entertainment, politics, and business sources.

Advanced filtering

Query by keywords, entities, topics, sentiment, geography, source importance, and near-duplicate status.

Metadata rich

Entities, categories, social velocity, and event clusters so you can rank, deduplicate, and power LLM prompts.

RAG-Ready JSON

Stop scraping. Get clean, parsed content with entities and sentiment, ready for your vector database.

Flexible pricing

Pay-per-use friendly tiers, clean limits, and upgrade/downgrade without changing code or integrations.

Google News Alternative

The reliable replacement for deprecated search APIs. Consistent up-time and growing coverage.

Pipeline

From crawl to clean JSON

Ingest

Continuously crawl vetted sources and RSS/sitemaps; normalize timestamps, URLs, and authors.

Clean

AI strip paywalls, boilerplate, and ads; canonicalize titles and language.

Enrich

Detect entities, categories, sentiment, events, and social velocity for every article.

Deliver

Serve via REST + SDKs with predictable rate limits, audit logs, and usage metering.

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Use cases

Built for RAG, Fintech, and Intelligence

The same patterns data teams love, tuned for our dataset and AI cleaning.

AI & LLM Training (RAG)

Feed your models clean, full-text JSON without ads or paywalls. Perfect for reliable RAG pipelines.

Live alerts & monitoring

Trigger notifications on entities, industries, or sentiment shifts with rate-limit-safe calls.

Fintech Signal Generation

Detect M&A rumors, earnings, and leadership changes in real-time across African and global markets.

Dataset creation

Export structured corpora for fine-tuning, RAG, and clustering experiments.

Industry & competitor analysis

Track companies, markets, and policy changes across regions with entity-first filters.

Google News Alternative

A drop-in replacement for deprecated news APIs. Structured data, higher limits, and better support.

Pricing

Plans for launch, scale, and enterprise

Stripe-ready subscriptions with clear limits and retention windows.

Trial

Starter

FreeUSDfor 7 days

7-day trial • 50 requests per day

50 requests/day
10 req/min
RSS + sitemap
7 day retention

Popular

Developer

$29USD/mo

Perfect for building your first revenue experiment

30 req/min
10k req/month
AI paywall bypass
Email support
7 day retention

Growth

$79USD/mo

For shipped products with active users

60 req/min
50k req/month
Search + filters
Webhooks
30 day retention

Pro

$199USD/mo

For conversion-critical, AI-heavy workloads

120 req/min
250k req/month
Full text extraction
Priority support
90 day retention

Enterprise

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Procurement-ready with custom SLAs and dedicated support

300+ req/min
1M+ req/month
Custom SLAs
On-prem options
180 day retention

Why we win

Built for product teams selling news experiences.

We handle ingestion, governance, and metering so you can focus on conversion. Plug us into your alerts, research, or generative pipelines with predictable cost controls.

Enterprise ready

SOC2-in-progress controls, audit-ready logging, and SSO on upper tiers.

AI-friendly

Structured responses, clean metadata, and embeddings-ready payloads that slot into your LLM stack.

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Redis-backed abuse controlsIncluded

Async Postgres ingestionIncluded

Stripe-ready subscriptionsIncluded

Bring-your-own sourcesAdd-on

Launch ready

Launch a paid news feature without chasing sources.

Tell us about your use case and we’ll hand you a tuned API key, usage limits, and onboarding in under 24 hours.

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