Find Journalists on a Beat

Use the Journalists endpoint to discover who writes about a subject, which outlets they publish in, and what they cover — useful for PR, media outreach and source discovery.

Step 1: Search journalists by name

cURL

curl "https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists?name=Alex&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists",
    params={
        "name": "Alex",
        "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
)
print(response.json())

Node.js

const params = new URLSearchParams({ "name": "Alex", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY" });
const response = await fetch(`https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists?${params}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

PHP

$query = http_build_query(["name" => "Alex", "api_key" => "YOUR_API_KEY"]);
$response = file_get_contents("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists?$query");
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data);

Go

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	u, _ := url.Parse("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists")
	q := u.Query()
	q.Set("name", "Alex")
	q.Set("api_key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	u.RawQuery = q.Encode()

	resp, _ := http.Get(u.String())
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	var data map[string]any
	json.Unmarshal(body, &data)
	fmt.Println(data)
}

Java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists?name=Alex&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"))
            .GET()
            .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

AI Prompt

Write a script in your preferred language that calls the APITube News API:

GET https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists?name=Alex

Read the API key from an environment variable (do not hardcode it), handle request
errors, and print the key fields of each result.
Docs: https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/parameters

Each result is normalized by name and lists the outlets the journalist publishes under, with an outlet_count.

Step 2: Inspect the journalist's beat

Fetch the profile and read coverage:

cURL

curl "https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431",
    params={
        "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
)
print(response.json())

Node.js

const params = new URLSearchParams({ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY" });
const response = await fetch(`https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431?${params}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

PHP

$query = http_build_query(["api_key" => "YOUR_API_KEY"]);
$response = file_get_contents("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431?$query");
$data = json_decode($response, true);
print_r($data);

Go

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	u, _ := url.Parse("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431")
	q := u.Query()
	q.Set("api_key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	u.RawQuery = q.Encode()

	resp, _ := http.Get(u.String())
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	var data map[string]any
	json.Unmarshal(body, &data)
	fmt.Println(data)
}

Java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"))
            .GET()
            .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

AI Prompt

Write a script in your preferred language that calls the APITube News API:

GET https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/1431

Read the API key from an environment variable (do not hardcode it), handle request
errors, and print the key fields of each result.
Docs: https://docs.apitube.io/platform/news-api/parameters

• Where they publish — outlets.
• What they write about — coverage.top_topics.
• Who they cover — coverage.top_entities (people, companies, places).
• How active they are — coverage.article_count, coverage.timeline, coverage.momentum.
• Latest pieces — recent_articles.

Step 3: Build a beat list

To assemble outreach lists, page through the directory, fetch each profile, and keep journalists whose coverage.top_topics or coverage.top_entities match your subject.

import requests

def covers_topic(journalist_id, topic_name, api_key):
    r = requests.get(
        f"https://api.apitube.io/v1/journalists/{journalist_id}",
        params={"api_key": api_key},
    ).json()
    topics = [t["name"].lower() for t in r["coverage"]["top_topics"]]
    return topic_name.lower() in topics

WARNING

Journalists are merged by exact name, so namesakes and generic bylines (e.g. admin) may appear as one record — verify before outreach.