Media Monitoring API Tutorial
Build a monitored news workflow for brand, company, campaign, or topic coverage using Search API filters and JSON article metadata.
1. Pick monitored terms
Start with brand names, company names, product names, campaign terms, or competitor names.
2. Filter the result set
Use source, domain, country, language, category, and date filters before storing or displaying coverage.
3. Review coverage
Show title, description, source, published time, URL, and image fields when they are present.
Use Search API for monitoring
Media monitoring usually starts with a search request. Your workflow supplies the brand or topic, then narrows results by source, date, market, or language.
- Brand and topic terms: search company names, product names, executives, campaigns, or competitor phrases.
- Source and domain filters: focus on selected publishers, owned lists, or domains your team reviews often.
- Date windows: poll recent coverage or review a plan-scoped historical window after an announcement.
- Country and language: separate regional coverage before it reaches a dashboard or review queue.
Example request
Search a brand or topic
curl "https://api.currentsapi.services/v1/search?keywords=acme%20launch&language=en&page_size=10&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY"Limit by source domain
curl "https://api.currentsapi.services/v1/search?domain=example.com&start_date=2026-07-01&language=en&page_size=10&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY"Build the monitoring workflow
| Step | What your system does | Currents path |
|---|---|---|
| Collect terms | Keep a short list of brands, companies, products, campaigns, and competitor phrases to query. | Search docs |
| Request coverage | Run Search API requests with language, country, source, domain, category, or date filters. | Search overview |
| Normalize fields | Store titles, descriptions, source names, publication times, URLs, categories, and images when available. | Examples |
| Review and route | Send matched coverage into an internal dashboard, analyst queue, or PR reporting workflow. | Pricing |
Quota planning
Estimate how many terms you monitor, how often each term is queried, and how many markets or languages need separate requests. Upgrade when quota or history windows become the constraint.
Usage boundary
Currents provides news data and source links. Built-in notification channels, social-network coverage, tone scoring, coverage guarantees, and publisher redistribution rights are not included as self-service promises.