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The APITube platform is updated regularly with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. This page lists the changes made to the platform.

1.0.22 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add Range Facets support - create histogram-style bucketed counts for numeric and date fields. Perfect for building date-based timelines, sentiment distribution charts, and reading time analytics.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Range Facet parameters:
    • facet.range - Enable/disable range faceting
    • facet.range.field - Field to create ranges on (published_at, sentiment.overall.score, read_time, etc.)
    • facet.range.start - Start value for range
    • facet.range.end - End value for range
    • facet.range.gap - Gap/interval between ranges (e.g., +1DAY, +1WEEK, 0.1 for numeric)
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] 8 range facet fields now available:
    • Date fields: published_at - analyze article distribution over time
    • Sentiment scores: sentiment.overall.score, sentiment.title.score, sentiment.body.score
    • Content metrics: read_time, media.images.count, media.videos.count
    • Source quality: source.rank.opr

1.0.21 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add Faceting support - get aggregated counts of articles grouped by specific fields. Enables building filtered navigation, analytics dashboards, and understanding result distribution.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] 24 facet fields now available including:
    • Source fields: source.id, source.country.id, source.bias, source.rank.opr
    • Classification: category.id, topic.id, industry.id
    • Language & Author: language.id, author.id
    • Sentiment: sentiment.overall.polarity, sentiment.title.polarity, sentiment.body.polarity
    • Article attributes: is_duplicate, is_free, is_important
    • Media content: media.images.count, media.videos.count
    • Reading time: read_time
    • Temporal analysis: published.year, published.month, published.day_of_week, published.hour

1.0.20 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add Highlighting support - get text snippets with matching search terms highlighted. Perfect for building search result pages with visual context.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Highlighting with Dictionary Integration - automatically expands search terms using synonyms and morphology for smarter highlighting
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Highlighting parameters:
    • hl - Enable/disable highlighting
    • hl.fl - Fields to highlight (title, description, body)
    • hl.fragsize - Snippet size (50-500 characters)
    • hl.snippets - Number of snippets per field (1-10)
    • hl.tag.pre / hl.tag.post - Custom highlight tags (default: <em> / </em>)

1.0.19 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new parameter fl (field list) - select specific fields to return in API responses, similar to Apache Solr's fl parameter. Supports nested field selection using dot notation (e.g., fl=id,title,source.name,sentiment.overall.score).

1.0.18 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new endpoint /v1/suggest/entities - autocomplete search for entities by name prefix. Returns matching entities with their details, types, and links to Wikipedia/Wikidata.

1.0.17 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new endpoint /v1/balance - check your API key balance and remaining credits. Returns api_key, points, and plan information.
  • ✅ 🔒 [News API] Add rate limiting to /v1/balance endpoint - limited to 30 requests per minute per API key to prevent abuse.

1.0.16 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new entity type filters: disaster.name, ignore.disaster.name, has_disaster - filter articles by disaster entities.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new entity type filters: disease.name, ignore.disease.name, has_disease - filter articles by disease entities.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new entity type filters: event.name, ignore.event.name, has_event - filter articles by event entities.

1.0.15 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new key "body_html" to the article resource. The value is pure HTML article. Available since December 30, 2025.

1.0.14 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new key "is_breaking" to the article resource. The value is true if the article is breaking news, otherwise false.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new key "read_time" to the article resource. The value is the estimated time to read the article in minutes.

1.0.13 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new key "source.bias" to the article resource. The value is the bias of the source, which can be one of the following: left, right, center.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new section in the documentation: List of Entities. This section provides a list of entities that can be used to filter news articles.

1.0.12 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Updated categories. See the full list of categories in the documentation.

1.0.11 ​

1.0.10 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Fixed rate limiter for all plans. Now the rate limiter is working correctly for all plans.

1.0.9 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] New key "is_paywall" to the article resource. The value is true if the article is behind a paywall, otherwise false.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Filter by paywall articles. Example: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?is_paywall=true. More examples in the documentation.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Filter by duplicate articles. Example: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?is_duplicate=true. More examples in the documentation.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] New key "favicon" in the source resource. The value is the URL of the source's favicon.

1.0.8 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Get news by topics: crypto news, movies news, video games news

1.0.7 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] New articles export formats: XML, XML, XLSX, CSV, CSV.

1.0.6 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add 'story_id' as property to the article resource. Story ID is a unique identifier for the story.

1.0.5 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add 'links' and 'videos' as property to the article resource. Links are a list of links to related articles.

1.0.4 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add 'opinion' resource type. Opinion articles are articles that are written by a person that expresses an opinion or point of view. Opinion articles are not news articles.

1.0.3 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add filter 'search' to search find articles by title or content match. Example: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?search=bitcoin.
  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Limit of articles per page for a paid user reached 1000 items per page.

1.0.2 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new integrations: Dart, Elixir, Haskell, Lua, Scala, Rust.

1.0.1 ​

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Add new categories.

  • ✅ ⭐ [News API] Articles body text(with tags) now trim data.