Web Scraping API

News Sentiment Monitoring API

Collect news articles, headlines, publication metadata, and source signals from public news portals for media monitoring, brand sentiment analysis, and financial signal extraction.

3M+ News articles published daily globally$5.3B by 2028 Media monitoring market size68% Enterprises using news sentiment for decisions

How It Works

1

Identify news sources

Target news portals, topic-specific search results, and RSS-equivalent pages covering your subject area.

2

Extract article data

Pull headline, summary, full body text, publication date, author, and source outlet from each article.

3

Score and analyze

Feed extracted text to sentiment classifiers, named entity recognition, and topic models for automated monitoring.

Quick Start

cURL
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://news.example.com/search?q=battery+supply+chain&sort=recent",
    "extract": {
      "articles": [{
        "headline": "string",
        "summary": "string",
        "published_at": "string",
        "source": "string",
        "url": "string"
      }]
    }
  }'

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terminal
curl -X POST https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}'

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