Migrating from Mediastack

Replace /v1/news with /v1/news/everything. Mediastack's parameter set is small, so the mapping is short. The two changes that matter are that offset pagination becomes page-based and that search covers headlines.

Why teams switch

	Mediastack	APITube
Article text	description only — an excerpt. No full-text field on any plan	Full body and body_html
Free tier	100 calls per month (~3/day), delayed data, no historical access, no commercial use	Higher limits, no commercial restriction
Enrichment	None — no sentiment, no entities, no topics, no source ranking	Sentiment, entities with Wikidata IDs, IPTC categories, publisher authority and bias
Article identity	No article ID in the response	Stable integer id plus a lookup endpoint
Results per request	100	250

Your first request

# Mediastack
curl "http://api.mediastack.com/v1/news?access_key=YOUR_KEY&keywords=tesla&languages=en&countries=us&limit=100"

# APITube
curl "https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?title=tesla&language.code=en&source.country.code=us&per_page=100" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Note the scheme: Mediastack's free tier is HTTP-only. APITube is HTTPS everywhere.

Parameter mapping

Mediastack	APITube	Note
keywords	title	Headlines only — see below
languages	language.code	Max 3 values
countries	source.country.code	Max 3 values
categories	category.id	Their 7 categories become IPTC codes
sources	source.domain	Max 3, exact domain
date	published_at.start / .end	A range becomes two parameters
sort=published_desc	sort.by=published_at&sort.order=desc
sort=popularity	sort.by=source.rank.opr	Approximate — publisher authority
limit	per_page	250 max; 10 on Free, 50 on Starter, 200 on Basic
offset	offset	Works directly
access_key	api_key or X-API-Key header

Mediastack's negation syntax (-cnn inside sources) becomes ignore.source.domain. The full table is in the migration kit.

What does not carry over

Search scope. keywords covers the title and description; title= covers headlines only.

date as a range string. Mediastack accepts 2026-07-01,2026-07-27 in one parameter. Split it into published_at.start and published_at.end.

Nothing else, really. Mediastack's parameter set is small enough that the migration is mostly mechanical — the work is on the response side, where you gain fields rather than lose them.

What you gain

This is the largest jump of any migration in this section. Every article gains: full body text, named entities with Wikidata links, sentiment on title/body/overall, IPTC categories plus topic and industry axes, publisher political bias and authority rank, readability scores, share counts, a stable article ID, and export to eight formats.

Next steps

• mediastack-apitube-migration-kit — full parameter tables derived from Mediastack's own OpenAPI spec, a drop-in shim for Node.js and Python, and an AI prompt for bulk conversion
• Parameters reference
• Common migration issues