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Social Media News, Live and Structured
Real-time social media news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces social media coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
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Social Media News coverage
NewsMesh surfaces social media coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Pull Social Media News into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=social+media). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=social+media&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Social Media News
How do I pull social media news from the API?
Call GET /v1/search?q=social media with your apiKey to return recent social media stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
What does NewsMesh tag on each social media story?
Every social media article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Can I combine social media with category or country filters?
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Is social media news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: social media stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the social media news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more social media articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.