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XCrawl pricing: news API, POST /v1/data, AP News Search

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83% complete: 5 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 584 plans by price. Serpent API's top-up from $500 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.Scrappa, ReefAPI and ScrapeUnblocker are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan one of XCrawl's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/data, AP News Search one of XCrawl's 7 calls for this API
API: News API one of XCrawl's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 5 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image, Full text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits. Unused credits expire at the end of the 30-day trial.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/data. You send location, keyword, start_page and pages. You set engine to "apnews_search" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

XCrawl: news API alternatives

XCrawl alternatives: every news API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planXCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, AP News SearchScrappa, free, GET /api/google/newsReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/searchScrapeUnblocker, freePerceptLayer, freeScrape.do, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness83%67%67%67%67%67%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0€0$0$0
Enough fornot published500 calls a month1,000 calls500 calls, once1,000 calls a month100 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveliveliveunknown
Who can get itindividuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business useanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")developers and businesses, 18 or olderanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

  1. docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/apis/apnews-search/
  2. docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/overview/
  3. docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/supported-apis/
  4. xcrawl.com/buy/
  5. xcrawl.com/terms-of-service

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape API · Search API · Map API · Crawl API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAP News Search is used to fetch AP News search results by keyword.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customer shall not use the Services in violation of applicable laws or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights), or in any manner or for any purpose other than as set out in the intended use case (if applicable) provided to XCrawl", "When using the proxy services, the client shall not use the services to [...] 1.3 Distribute any illegal content or encourage any illegal activity [...] 1.5 Enhance or operate services that compete with the Services, or assist any other party in doing so. 1.6 Access, attack, crawl, or attempt to access any website, application, or system related to financial transactions, banking, securities, cryptocurrency exchanges, etc. 1.7 Access, disseminate, or participate in any content or activities involving pornography, gambling, drugs, violence, or other content that violates public morals, laws, or regulations. 1.8 Conduct any unauthorized scraping, collection, or use of data, especially content involving personal privacy, sensitive data, or protected information. 1.9 Engage in any illegal or criminal activity, such as money laundering, theft of trade secrets, or theft of personal information.", "When using the Data Services, Customer may not distribute, transmit, copy, publish, license, transfer or sell any Data to offer similar or competing products."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits
Expires30-day trial
Rate limit
Concurrent10
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendengine "apnews_search", location, keyword, start_page, pages, Content-Type header "application/json"
MethodPOST
Path/v1/data
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itindividuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business use
The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, base URL, page number, total pages, results on page, total results, next page URL, request URL, news result position, news result title, news result snippet, news result content, news result link, news result path, news result ID, news result domain, news result display date, news result timestamp, news result published timestamp, news result updated timestamp, news result published at, news result updated at, news result image URL, news result image srcset, news result image alt text, news result image width, news result image height, news result image aspect ratio, news result has image, news result has media, news result region, news result topic, news result template, news result mobile alternate layout, news result source, news result type

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