Zapier Integration

Zapier is the most popular workflow automation platform with 8,000+ app integrations. With APITube News API, you can build automated Zaps for news monitoring, alerts, and AI-powered digests — all without writing code.

Prerequisites

• Zapier account (free or paid plan)
• APITube API key (get one from your dashboard)

Setting Up APITube Credentials

Zapier does not have a built-in APITube integration, so we use the Webhooks by Zapier app to make HTTP requests. Authentication is passed as a header in each request.

When configuring a Webhooks step:

1. Set Method to GET
2. Under Headers, add: X-API-Key | YOUR_API_KEY
3. Set URL to the APITube endpoint (e.g., https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything)

TIP

You can also pass the API key as a query parameter: add api_key=YOUR_API_KEY to the URL. However, using the header is recommended for security.

API Endpoints Reference

Endpoint	Method	Description
/v1/news/everything	GET	Search all articles with 50+ filters
/v1/news/top-headlines	GET	Top news from authoritative sources
/v1/news/article	GET	Get articles by ID
/v1/news/story/:articleId	GET	Get related articles for a story
/v1/news/trends	GET	Trending topics and aggregations
/v1/news/time-series	GET	Article counts over time

Base URL: https://api.apitube.io

Full list of endpoints and parameters: Endpoints | Parameters

Zap 1: News Monitoring → Google Sheets

Automatically collect news articles matching your criteria into a Google Sheets spreadsheet.

How it works:

• Schedule by Zapier triggers every 15 minutes
• Webhooks by Zapier sends a GET request to APITube
• Looping by Zapier iterates over articles
• Google Sheets appends each article as a row

Step-by-step setup:

Step 1: Schedule by Zapier (Trigger)

• Choose Schedule by Zapier as trigger
• Set Schedule to Every 15 Minutes

Step 2: Webhooks by Zapier (GET Request)

• Choose Webhooks by Zapier → Custom Request
• Method: GET
• URL: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?title=artificial+intelligence&language.code=en&per_page=50&sort.by=published_at&sort.order=desc
• Headers: X-API-Key | YOUR_API_KEY

Step 3: Looping by Zapier

• Choose Looping by Zapier → Create Loop From Line Items
• Set Values to Loop to the articles array from Step 2

Step 4: Google Sheets (Create Row)

• Choose Google Sheets → Create Spreadsheet Row
• Map fields:
  • Title → article title
  • URL → article url
  • Source → article source name
  • Published → article published_at
  • Sentiment → article sentiment overall polarity

Customization tips:

• Change the title query parameter to monitor different keywords
• Add category.id to filter by category (see list of categories)
• Add source.country.code to filter by country (e.g., us, gb)
• Use person.name or organization.name to track specific entities

Zap 2: News Alerts → Slack / Email

Get notified in Slack or email when new articles match your criteria.

How it works:

• Schedule by Zapier triggers every 30 minutes
• Webhooks by Zapier fetches articles from APITube
• Filter by Zapier checks if there are results
• Slack / Gmail sends a formatted notification

Step-by-step setup:

Step 1: Schedule by Zapier (Trigger)

• Set Schedule to Every 30 Minutes

Step 2: Webhooks by Zapier (GET Request)

• Method: GET
• URL: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/everything?title=startup+funding&language.code=en&per_page=10&sort.by=published_at&sort.order=desc
• Headers: X-API-Key | YOUR_API_KEY

Step 3: Filter by Zapier

• Field: articles count from Step 2
• Condition: Greater than 0
• This prevents empty notifications when no articles are found

Step 4: Slack — Send Channel Message

• Channel: your target channel
• Message Text:

New articles found for "startup funding":

[Article Title] — mapped from articles → title
[Source Name] • [Published Date] — mapped from articles → source.name, published_at
[Article URL] — mapped from articles → url

Use Zapier's field mapper to insert dynamic values from the Webhooks step.

For Email: Replace Slack with Gmail → Send Email:

• Subject: News Alert: startup funding
• Body: map article fields (title, url, source, published_at)

Zap 3: AI News Digest → Email

Build a daily AI-powered news digest with ChatGPT and send it via email.

How it works:

• Schedule by Zapier triggers once daily (e.g., 8:00 AM)
• Webhooks by Zapier fetches top headlines
• Code by Zapier formats articles into a text list
• ChatGPT by Zapier summarizes the articles
• Gmail sends the digest

Step-by-step setup:

Step 1: Schedule by Zapier (Trigger)

• Set Schedule to Every Day at 8:00 AM

Step 2: Webhooks by Zapier (GET Request)

• Method: GET
• URL: https://api.apitube.io/v1/news/top-headlines?language.code=en&per_page=20&sort.by=published_at&sort.order=desc
• Headers: X-API-Key | YOUR_API_KEY

Step 3: Code by Zapier (Format Articles)

• Language: JavaScript
• Input Data: articles → articles array from Step 2
• Code:

const articles = JSON.parse(inputData.articles);
const formatted = articles.map((a, i) =>
  `${i + 1}. ${a.title} (${a.source.name})\n   ${a.url}`
).join('\n\n');

output = [{ summary: formatted, count: articles.length }];

Step 4: ChatGPT — Conversation

• User Message: Summarize the following ${count} news articles into a concise daily digest. Group by topic, highlight the most important stories, and keep it under 500 words.\n\n${summary}

Step 5: Gmail — Send Email

• To: your email address
• Subject: Daily News Digest
• Body: ChatGPT response from Step 4

Parameters

For a full list of available query parameters (50+ filters including language, category, sentiment, entities, date ranges, and more), see the Parameters reference.

Tips & Tricks

• URL encoding: Spaces in query parameters should be encoded as + or %20 (e.g., title=climate+change)
• Rate limits: APITube allows 50 requests per minute. Space your Schedule triggers accordingly
• Pagination: Use page parameter to fetch more results. Max per_page is 250
• Date filtering: Use published_at.start with a relative date to avoid duplicate articles between polls
• Zapier plan limits: Free Zapier plan allows 100 tasks/month. Consider scheduling frequency vs. plan limits
• Error handling: Add a Paths by Zapier step after the Webhooks step to handle HTTP errors gracefully

Next Steps

• Common Workflows — more query examples
• Parameters — full parameter reference
• Endpoints — all available endpoints
• API Reference — interactive API explorer