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.
How It Works
Identify news sources
Target news portals, topic-specific search results, and RSS-equivalent pages covering your subject area.
Extract article data
Pull headline, summary, full body text, publication date, author, and source outlet from each article.
Score and analyze
Feed extracted text to sentiment classifiers, named entity recognition, and topic models for automated monitoring.
Quick Start
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"
}]
}
}'Need an API key? — no credit card required.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What news data fields can I extract?
Headline, article body text, summary/lede, publication date and time, author byline, outlet name, article category tags, and related article links.
How do I monitor news about a specific company or topic?
Target news search result pages filtered by keyword. Schedule recurring extractions to capture new articles as they publish. Store article URLs to deduplicate and process only new content.
Responsible Use
AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.
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Pricing
From $0.0002/request. No subscriptions. Balance never expires.
Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.
$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.
Just a POST request.
No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires