---
title: "Currents API integration for LuumenAI"
url: "https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/currents-api/"
entity: SoftwareIntegration
category: "Databases & data platforms"
audience: "SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, IT operations"
---

# Currents API integration for LuumenAI

Search world news, then open a push channel for activity updates

## What LuumenAI can do with Currents API

LuumenAI connects to Currents API with an API token and exposes 5 tools (4 read-only · 1 write). Reads answer immediately; writes are shown as a plan and require approval by default, configurable per tool by an administrator.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 5 tools (4 read-only · 1 write)
- Plan: available on all plans
- Category: Databases & data platforms

## About Currents API with LuumenAI

Currents API gives your team a read-anytime view of news from sources worldwide, across languages and categories. Ask for the latest articles or search on a keyword while you are working an incident or a comms question, and get an answer in the terminal. When you want updates pushed instead of polled, Luumen can open a watch channel as an approved step. Luumen connects with an API key.

## Example tools

Read-only (4 in total):

- `CURRENTS_API_ACTIVITIES_LIST` — Retrieve the latest news articles from Currents News API.
- `CURRENTS_API_ENTITY_USAGE_REPORTS_GET` — Retrieve usage statistics for a specific Google Workspace entity.
- `CURRENTS_API_USERS_LIST` — List users in a Google Workspace domain.
- `CURRENTS_API_USER_USAGE_REPORT_GET` — Retrieve news articles from Currents News API with flexible search and filtering.

Write and destructive (1 in total, approval required by default):

- `CURRENTS_API_ACTIVITIES_WATCH` — Start a push notification channel to watch user activities for Google Workspace applications.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to Currents API?

Authorize once with API token. Luumen lists the scopes each action needs before you approve the connection, and credentials never appear in the chat.

### Can LuumenAI change things in Currents API on its own?

Read actions answer immediately. Anything that writes is shown as a plan and requires approval by default. Administrators configure that per tool.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to Currents API — read or write, approved or declined — is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/currents-api/