Getting Started

Get up and running with News Scout API in minutes. Follow this guide to make your first API call.

Quick Start

  1. 1

    Get Your API Key

    Sign up for an account and get your API key from the dashboard.

  2. 2

    Make Your First Request

    Use your API key to fetch articles:

    curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
      "https://api.apiscout.net/articles?limit=5"
  3. 3

    Explore the Response

    {
      "id": 12345,
      "title": "Breaking News Title",
                      "summary": "Article summary...",
                      "full_text": "Complete article text...",
                      "url": "https://example.com/article",
                      "published_at": "2024-12-03T10:30:00Z",
                      "source": "bbc.com",
                      "topic": "technology",
                      "sentiment": "positive",
                      "sentiment_score": 0.85,
                      "media_type": "article",
                      "image_url": "https://example.com/image.jpg",
                      "thumbnail_url": "https://example.com/thumb.jpg",
                      "author": "John Doe",
                      "language": "en",
                      "country": "Zimbabwe",
                      "region": "Africa",
                      "category": "Technology",
                      "keywords": ["AI", "innovation"],
                      "word_count": 1250,
                      "read_time": 5,
                      "is_breaking": false,
                      "is_featured": true
    }

💡 Pro Tip

Check out our like sentiment filtering and media type classification that no other news API offers!