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

# NewsAPI integration for LuumenAI

Search live news from the open web, in the same terminal as your incident work

## What LuumenAI can do with NewsAPI

LuumenAI connects to NewsAPI with an API token and exposes 4 tools (4 read-only). Every tool is read-only, so it can answer questions from NewsAPI but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 4 tools (4 read-only)
- Deployment: scoped as part of your Pilot, Platform, or Managed rollout
- Category: Databases & data platforms

## About NewsAPI with LuumenAI

Ask about an outage at a cloud provider, a CVE making the rounds, or a vendor announcement, and get answers without leaving your session. NEWS_API_GET_TOP_HEADLINES covers what is breaking now, NEWS_API_GET_EVERYTHING searches back through published articles, and NEWS_API_GET_SOURCES lists who is reporting. Connect with an API key. This integration is read-only.

## Example tools

Read-only (4 in total):

- `NEWS_API_GET_EVERYTHING` — Search through every article published by over 150,000 sources.
- `NEWS_API_GET_SOURCES` — Fetch available news sources.
- `NEWS_API_GET_TOP_HEADLINES` — Retrieve live top and breaking headlines; does not support historical or date-bounded queries (use NEWS_API_GET_EVERYTHING for past date ranges).
- `NEWS_API_GET_V1_ARTICLES` — Fetch live article metadata from a news source using the legacy v1 API.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to NewsAPI?

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 NewsAPI on its own?

No. Every one of the 4 tools is read-only, so LuumenAI can answer questions from NewsAPI but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to NewsAPI is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/newsapi/