Bing API: Search Bing News
Finds recent Bing News articles about a topic in Bing's displayed order, optionally localized to a country and limited to the past hour, day or week. Relative publication times are approximate; date-only labels are shown at midnight UTC.
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Inputs
Values from the run on Oct 31, 2026, shown under Output.
- Query, required
query News topic to search for, such as electric vehicle tariffs.
climate change
- Country optional
country Country name or two-letter code for localized results, such as United States or GB.
GB
Default
United States.- Freshness optional
freshness How recent articles should be, such as past_day.
past_week
One of
any,past_hour,past_day,past_week. Defaultany.- Max Results optional
max_results Maximum number of articles to return, such as 20 (up to 100).
30
Whole number from 1 to 100. Default
20.
Input as JSON
{ "query": "climate change", "country": "GB", "freshness": "past_week", "max_results": 30}Output
{ "articles": [ { "snippet": "Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies ...", "headline": "Justice Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case", "publisher": "The New York Times", "image_link": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=ONUT.wrSHGT5kS9bfp5bpBPy9-g&pid=News&w=234&h=132&c=14&rs=2&qlt=90" , "article_link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/us/politics/alito-suncor-supreme-court-recuse.html" , "published_at": "2026-09-28T22:22:26+00:00" }, { "snippet": "In a short letter, the court said Alito will not participate in consideration of Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners, a case that could determine whether states and local governments across the ...", "headline": "Alito will not participate in pivotal climate change case", "publisher": "Yahoo", "image_link": null, "article_link": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/alito-not-participate-pivotal-climate-200900829.html" , "published_at": "2026-09-28T20:22:26+00:00" }, { "snippet": "The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in the major climate change lawsuit between two energy companies and the city and ...", "headline": "Alito recuses from major climate change case to be decided by the Supreme Court", "publisher": "CBS News on MSN", "image_link": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=ORMS.4750bf944cbade3bc8a9bd453beab340&pid=News&w=234&h=132&c=14&rs=2&qlt=90" , "article_link": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/alito-recuses-from-major-climate-change-case-to-be-decided-by-the-supreme-court/ar-AA2d8BFY?ocid=BingNewsVerp" , "published_at": "2026-09-28T20:22:26+00:00" } ]}Code
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"bing.com/search_news","input":{"query":"climate change","country":"GB","freshness":"past_week","max_results":30}}' # Save as fous.py, then run: python3 fous.pyimport json, os, timefrom urllib.error import HTTPErrorfrom urllib.request import Request, urlopenAPI = "https://api.fous.com/v1/runs" KEY = os.environ["FOUS_API_KEY"]HEADERS = { "Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}", "Content-Type": "application/json" ,}def call(url, body=None): data = json.dumps(body).encode() if body else None request = Request(url, data, HEADERS) try: with urlopen(request, timeout=120) as r: return r.status, json.load(r) except HTTPError as error: message = json.load(error)["error"]["message"] raise RuntimeError(message) from errorstatus, run = call(API, { "method": "bing.com/search_news" , "input": { "query": "climate change", "country": "GB", "freshness": "past_week", "max_results": 30 }})# 202: still going after 30 s. Ask again until it ends.while status == 202: time.sleep(2) status, run = call(f"{API}/{run['id']}")print(json.dumps(run["data"], indent=2))// Save as fous.mjs, then run: node fous.mjsconst api = "https://api.fous.com/v1/runs" ;const headers = { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.FOUS_API_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" ,};let response = await fetch(api, { method: "POST", headers, body: JSON.stringify({ "method": "bing.com/search_news" , "input": { "query": "climate change", "country": "GB", "freshness": "past_week", "max_results": 30 } }), signal: AbortSignal.timeout(120_000),});let run = await response.json();// 202: still going after 30 s. Ask again until it ends.while (response.status === 202) { await new Promise((done) => setTimeout(done, 2_000)); response = await fetch(`${api}/${run.id}`, { headers }); run = await response.json();}if (!response.ok) throw new Error(run.error.message);console.log(run.data);# Connect your agent to Fous once, over MCP (Streamable HTTP):# https://api.fous.com/mcp# Set FOUS_API_KEY first: create a key at https://app.fous.com/keys.# Claude Codeclaude mcp add \ --scope user \ --transport http fous https://api.fous.com/mcp \ --header "Authorization: Bearer ${FOUS_API_KEY:?Set FOUS_API_KEY to your Fous API key}"# Codexcodex mcp add fous \ --url https://api.fous.com/mcp \ --bearer-token-env-var FOUS_API_KEY# Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Cline and morenpx -y add-mcp https://api.fous.com/mcp -g -n fous \ --header "Authorization: Bearer ${FOUS_API_KEY:?Set FOUS_API_KEY to your Fous API key}"# Then ask your agent:# "Use Fous to run bing.com/search_news# with {"query":"climate change","country":"GB","freshness":"past_week","max_results":30}"Over HTTP, the answer’s data holds the output. A run still going after 30 seconds answers 202 with its id: ask GET /v1/runs/{id} until it ends.
Schema
Input schema
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "query" ], "properties": { "query": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "description": "News topic to search for, such as electric vehicle tariffs." }, "country": { "type": "string", "default": "United States", "description": "Country name or two-letter code for localized results, such as United States or GB." }, "freshness": { "enum": [ "any", "past_hour", "past_day", "past_week" ], "type": "string", "default": "any", "description": "How recent articles should be, such as past_day." }, "max_results": { "type": "integer", "default": 20, "maximum": 100, "minimum": 1, "description": "Maximum number of articles to return, such as 20 (up to 100)." } }}Output schema
{ "type": "object", "required": [ "articles" ], "properties": { "articles": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "headline", "publisher", "published_at", "snippet", "image_link", "article_link" ], "properties": { "snippet": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Article preview." }, "headline": { "type": "string", "description": "Article headline." }, "publisher": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Publisher name." }, "image_link": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "News image link." }, "article_link": { "type": "string", "description": "Article page link." }, "published_at": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Publication time converted from Bing's displayed date, in ISO 8601 with offset." } }, "additionalProperties": false } } }, "additionalProperties": false}- Price
- 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
- Method
bing.com/search_news- Returns
- headline, publisher, publication time, snippet, image link, article link
Use it from your agent
Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method bing.com/search_news with the inputs above.
Ask your agent
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