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

# World News API integration for LuumenAI

Search and read world news from the terminal, without leaving your incident channel

## What LuumenAI can do with World News API

LuumenAI connects to World News API with an API token and exposes 8 tools (8 read-only). Every tool is read-only, so it can answer questions from World News API but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

## Key facts

- Authentication: API token
- Tools available: 8 tools (8 read-only)
- Deployment: scoped as part of your Pilot, Platform, or Managed rollout
- Category: Databases & data platforms

## About World News API with LuumenAI

Ask what the outside world is saying. World News API searches indexed articles across languages and countries, pulls top-news clusters with WORLD_NEWS_API_GET_TOP_NEWS, and extracts the full text of a specific URL with WORLD_NEWS_API_EXTRACT_NEWS. Useful when a vendor outage, a regulatory change, or a regional event shows up in your systems before anyone files a ticket. Connect it with an API key. Every tool here is read-only, so answers come back immediately.

## Example tools

Read-only (8 in total):

- `WORLD_NEWS_API_EXTRACT_NEWS` — Extract structured content from a public article URL.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_EXTRACT_NEWS_LINKS` — Extract article links from a news homepage or section page.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_GENERATE_RSS_FEED` — Generate an RSS 2.0 XML feed from a public news homepage or section URL.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_GET_GEO_COORDINATES` — Resolve a place name or address to latitude and longitude for use in Search News location_filter.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_GET_NEWS_BY_IDS` — Retrieve full article records for IDs returned by Search News or Get Top News.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_GET_TOP_NEWS` — Return relevance-ranked top-news clusters for a country, language, and optional date.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_SEARCH_NEWS` — Search indexed news articles.
- `WORLD_NEWS_API_SEARCH_NEWS_SOURCES` — Search monitored news sources by partial name and report matching source URLs and languages.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to World News 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 World News API on its own?

No. Every one of the 8 tools is read-only, so LuumenAI can answer questions from World News API but cannot change anything in it. Read actions still follow the configured access and approval policy.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to World News API is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

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