aid: bing-news
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bing-news/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Bing News Search
description: >-
  Microsoft Bing News Search REST API enables developers to retrieve relevant news articles,
  trending topics, and category-filtered news with image thumbnails and publisher metadata.
  The API provides search queries against Bing's news index, returning results with titles,
  descriptions, URLs, publication dates, and related media content.
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - News
  - Search
  - Microsoft
  - Bing
  - Media
  - Headlines
  - Trending Topics
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: bing-news:news-search
    name: Bing News Search API
    description: >-
      Returns news articles relevant to a user's search query. Supports filtering by
      freshness, market, safe search level, and category. Results include article titles,
      descriptions, URLs, publication times, image thumbnails, and publisher metadata.
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
    baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search
    tags:
      - News
      - Search
      - Bing
      - Microsoft
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
      - type: Plans
        url: plans/bing-news-plans-pricing.yml
      - type: RateLimits
        url: rate-limits/bing-news-rate-limits.yml
      - type: FinOps
        url: finops/bing-news-finops.yml
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/bing-news-search-openapi.json

  - aid: bing-news:news-category
    name: Bing News Category API
    description: >-
      Returns top news articles filtered by category (e.g., Business, Entertainment, Sports,
      Health, ScienceAndTechnology, Politics, World). Supports multiple markets with
      locale-specific category taxonomies. No search query is required; results reflect
      top headlines for the chosen category in the specified market.
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/category-news
    baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news
    tags:
      - News
      - Category
      - Headlines
      - Bing
      - Microsoft
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/category-news
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints

  - aid: bing-news:trending-topics
    name: Bing Trending News Topics API
    description: >-
      Returns news topics that are currently trending on social networks. Supports
      filtering by Unix epoch timestamp (since parameter) to retrieve topics discovered
      after a specific point in time. Results include topic names, related search queries,
      and image thumbnails. Only available in supported markets.
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
    humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/trending-news
    baseURL: https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/trendingtopics
    tags:
      - News
      - Trending
      - Social
      - Topics
      - Bing
      - Microsoft
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/how-to/trending-news
      - type: APIReference
        url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints

common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.bing.com/news
  - type: Portal
    url: https://portal.azure.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/reference/endpoints
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-web-search/create-bing-search-service-resource
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/legal
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/bing/search-apis/bing-news-search/quickstarts/quickstarts
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/cognitive-services/Bing-News-Search/quickstarts/client-libraries
  - type: Support
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/142/bing-category-bing-search-apis-azure-bing-news
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/microsoft
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com