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5,000 searches
$9.25
$1.85/1K searches
- Wire it into one agent
- Same API as the largest pack
- Credits never expire
Quick answer
Which news search API gives an AI agent the article text, not just headlines?
LLMWebSearch has a news mode: send topic=news with a time range and you get recent articles with their dates, the top 3 read as Markdown. It is part of the same web search API for AI agents and costs the same credit: $9.25 for 5,000 searches, as of October 2026. No KYC; pay in crypto.
How do I search the news?
Add two parameters to a normal search. topic: "news" limits results to news articles, and time_range keeps them recent: day, week, month or year. Each result carries published_at when the publisher or the search engine states a date.
Everything else works as in a web search. read sets how many articles come back with their full text, and include_domains keeps the search on the publications you trust.
import os
import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://llmwebsearch.com/api/v1/search",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LLMWEBSEARCH_API_KEY']}"},
json={
"q": "battery recycling regulation",
"topic": "news",
"time_range": "week",
"max_results": 10,
"read": 3,
"max_chars": 6000,
},
timeout=60,
)
resp.raise_for_status()
for r in resp.json()["results"]:
print(r.get("published_at", "no date"), r["host"], r["title"])What can a news agent build with it?
- Daily briefings. One search per topic each morning with
time_range: "day", three articles read, one summary written by your model. - Monitoring. A scheduled search per brand, product or regulation; keep the URLs you have seen and alert only on new ones.
- Fact checks. Before an agent states a recent figure, it searches the news of the past week and cites the article it used.
- Research digests. Weekly searches across a list of trade publications with
include_domains.
The news monitoring use case walks through scheduling and de-duplication.
How fresh are the results?
Results come from a live web search run at the moment of your call, in the order the search engine ranks them; nothing is served from an old index. With time_range: "day", results are limited to the past day as the search engine dates them. Very recent articles can take a while to appear in any search engine, so a monitoring agent should run on a schedule rather than expect a story within minutes of publication. We make no promise of minutes.
What about paywalled news sites?
Paywalled articles come back without content. When a site turns our reader away, the result comes back without content and with the site's status: we never solve CAPTCHAs, sign in to accounts or work around a block or a paywall. The result still gives the title, the URL, the snippet and the date, which is often enough to cite the story or to show it to a person who has a subscription.
How much does news search cost?
A news search costs the same as a web search: 1 credit with up to 3 articles read. 5,000 searches cost $9.25, 25,000 searches cost $41.25 and 100,000 searches cost $145, as of October 2026.
Builder
25,000 searches
$41.25
$1.65/1K searches
- A coding agent or a research assistant
- MCP, LangChain and n8n ready
- Credits never expire
Production
100,000 searches
$145
$1.45/1K searches
- Agents in production
- Higher rate limit on request
- Credits never expire
In every plan: Top 3 pages read as Markdown · Country, language, time and domain filters · Failed calls not charged · Credits never expire
News search API questions
How many articles can one search return?
Up to 20 results with max_results. The first 3 are read for 1 credit; set read up to 10 for 2 credits.
Can I search news in other languages and countries?
Yes. Set country and language, for example fr and fr for French news from France. The results follow the search engine's ranking for that market.
Do you keep an archive of articles?
No. LLMWebSearch reads pages at the moment of your call and does not keep them. Store what your agent needs on your side; We do not train any model on your queries or on what the API returns, and we add no rule of our own against storing results; the rights of the sites whose pages you read still apply.
Is there a news-only subscription?
No. News and web searches use the same prepaid credits, which never expire. See the pricing page.