Hey devs,
I wanted to share a small side project that turned out way more useful than expected — and a tool that made it surprisingly easy: apitube.io.
🗞️ The Problem
At my company, we needed a way to keep an eye on relevant industry news:
Product launches by competitors
Tech policy updates in key markets
Mentions of our company in local press
Sentiment around our brand and keywords
We tried a few big-name news APIs, but they were either:
Too limited in scope (mostly US/UK sources)
Slow to update
Expensive or rate-limited
Weak on filtering or metadata
💡 The Solution: apitube.io
I stumbled across apitube.io while looking for a multilingual, filter-heavy news API — and it was exactly what I needed.
Key reasons I stuck with it:
Covers 500K+ sources in 200+ countries, 60+ languages
Super detailed filters (e.g., lang=fr, region=sa, topic=ai, sentiment=positive)
Built-in sentiment analysis and entity extraction
Clean JSON responses with structured metadata
No code gymnastics needed — just hit the endpoint and go
⚙️ How I Used It
I set up a simple script (using Python + cron) that:
Queries the API every 30 minutes for stories matching our company name or industry terms
Filters for region + language (we’re based in LATAM, so this mattered)
Sends results to a Slack channel using a webhook
Highlights sentiment and extracted entities for quick context
Example query:
GET /v1/news?keywords=logistics+automation®ion=latam&lang=es&sentiment=neutral
I also export daily CSVs with full-text for our PR team.
🔍 Bonus Tips
You can use story_grouping=true to cluster duplicates and avoid noise
entity_person, entity_org, etc. help surface WHO is mentioned most
sort_by=impact is handy to prioritize bigger stories
Webhooks are available if polling isn't your thing
✅ Final Thoughts
I’m genuinely impressed with how flexible and developer-friendly apitube.io is. If you're working on anything related to:
News monitoring
Competitive intel
Media dashboards
Academic/news research
…this is worth checking out.
Hope this helps someone trying to build a similar feed or internal tool — feel free to ask if you want to see code snippets or setup tips!
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