Getting Started
Get up and running with News Scout API in minutes. Follow this guide to make your first API call.
Quick Start
- 1
Get Your API Key
Sign up for an account and get your API key from the dashboard.
- 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
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!