# XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, AP News Search: News API

> AP News Search is used to fetch AP News search results by keyword.

XCrawl's news API on its Free Plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image, Full text.
We rank 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-ap-news-search
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/data`, AP News Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/apis/apnews-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: XCrawl (https://www.xcrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓
- Full text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape API · Search API · Map API · Crawl API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: AP News Search is used to fetch AP News search results by keyword.

## Data

- Keep data: no 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 get: 1,000 credits
- Expires: 30-day trial

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: engine "apnews_search", location, keyword, start_page, pages, Content-Type header "application/json"
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/data

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: individuals 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

## XCrawl's plans (6)

- [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [XCrawl, $8 monthly, Hobby, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/8-monthly-hobby-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [XCrawl, $49 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/49-monthly-starter-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [XCrawl, $199 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/199-monthly-pro-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [XCrawl, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/499-monthly-scale-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [XCrawl, $999 monthly, Enterprise, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/999-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt): 83% complete

## XCrawl's calls for this API (7)

- `POST /v1/data`, AP News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/serp`, Baidu News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-baidu-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/data`, BBC News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, BBC News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-bbc-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/serp`, Bing News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/serp, Bing News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/serp`, Duckduckgo News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/serp, Duckduckgo News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-duckduckgo-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/serp`, Google News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/serp, Google News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/data`, Naver News Search: [XCrawl, free plan, POST /v1/data, Naver News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-naver-news-search/llms.txt)

## XCrawl's APIs (8)

- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Baidu Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-baidu-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Duckduckgo Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Naver Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-naver-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Images Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-images-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Images Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-images-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Image Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-image-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Videos Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-videos-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-video-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-video-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: Trustpilot review API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/trustpilot-review-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: search autocomplete API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Autocomplete Search](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-autocomplete-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: search autocomplete API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Trends Autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-trends-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api-full/llms.txt)

## XCrawl: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Scrape.do, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrape-do/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete

## 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.

- https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/apis/apnews-search/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/overview/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/features/data/supported-apis/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.xcrawl.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing