Does this replace Bing News Search v7?

For the article list, yes: title, URL, provider, description, date and image all have SerpKite equivalents (title, link, source, snippet, published_at, image_url). Trending topics and category browsing aren't available.

Is the Bing Search API still available?

Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025, and existing keys stopped working. SerpKite is not affiliated with Microsoft; it reads Bing's public results page and returns it as JSON. See the Bing Search API migration guide for a field-by-field mapping.

Do I need an Azure account?

No. One SerpKite API key works for Bing, Google and every other engine. There is no Azure subscription, resource or region to set up.

How much does a Bing search cost?

1 credit per page, the same as Google: from $0.60 per 1,000 at volume. Failed, blocked and empty requests are free.

POST /v1/news · engine=bing

Bing News Search API

Bing News articles as JSON, with typed publish dates and images. A replacement for the retired Bing News Search API, behind one SerpKite key.

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1 credit per page of results 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Bing News Search API does

Bing is Microsoft's web index. Microsoft retired its official Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025; SerpKite reads Bing's public results page instead. Use it to keep a Bing-backed integration running after the retirement, or to compare Microsoft's index with Google's.

/v1/news with engine: "bing" returns Bing News results for a query: title, link, domain, source (e.g. "The Detroit News on MSN"), snippet, the date as shown, published_at in ISO 8601, and image_url when the card has a picture.

What you get

results[] array: Articles: position, title, link, domain, source, snippet, date as shown, published_at (ISO 8601) and image_url.
meta object: request_id, credits_used, cached, latency_ms, parse_quality, engine (the provider that answered) and route (each provider attempt with outcome and ms).

Request

POST /v1/news

cURL

Python

TypeScript

fetch

PHP

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/news \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"electric vehicles sales","engine":"bing"}'

Response (live response, trimmed)

200 OK · Bing news · live response, trimmed

{
  "request": {
    "country": "us",
    "endpoint": "news",
    "engine": "bing",
    "language": "en",
    "num": 10,
    "page": 1,
    "q": "electric vehicles sales"
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "date": "1 hour ago",
      "domain": "msn.com",
      "link": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/general/top-10-q3-auto-sales-winners-and-losers-our-picks/ar-AA2fWPef?ocid=BingNewsVerp",
      "position": 1,
      "published_at": "2026-10-23T20:27:02Z",
      "snippet": "Gas price surge helped hybrids a lot but not EVs as much. Here are other takeaways ...",
      "source": "The Detroit News on MSN",
      "title": "Top 10 Q3 auto sales winners and losers. Our picks"
    },
    {
      "date": "2 days ago",
      "domain": "msn.com",
      "image_url": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=ONUT.tp7o6OO9JZnG_m3024bfow&pid=News&w=234&h=132&c=14&rs=2&qlt=90",
      "link": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/americans-want-electric-cars-they-just-cant-find-them/ar-AA2enCEG?ocid=BingNewsVerp",
      "position": 2,
      "published_at": "2026-10-21",
      "snippet": "Within three months of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the average price of gasoline for American ...",
      "source": "The Conversation on MSN",
      "title": "Americans want electric cars – they just can’t find them"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "cached": false,
    "engine": "bing",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "bing",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 1014
      }
    ],
    "latency_ms": 1051,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

One key, many engines

Bing through SerpKite

Same key, same envelope and the same SDK call as Google: only engine changes.
meta.engine names the provider that answered and meta.route lists every attempt. A result is never relabelled.
engine: "auto" keeps Google first and falls back to Bing and the other engines only when Google fails. How fallback works
Failed, blocked and empty attempts are free; you pay only for the provider that answered.

Everything Bing serves on SerpKite

Bing Search API POST /v1/search · engine=bing
Bing News Search API POST /v1/news · engine=bing
Bing Image Search API POST /v1/images · engine=bing
Bing Video Search API POST /v1/videos · engine=bing

See all engines on the multi-engine search page or in the providers reference.

engine=auto answered by Bing (illustrative)

meta.route

{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "news",
    "engine": "auto",
    "q": "electric vehicles sales"
  },
  "meta": {
    "engine": "bing",
    "route": [
      {
        "provider": "google",
        "outcome": "blocked",
        "ms": 2140
      },
      {
        "provider": "bing",
        "outcome": "ok",
        "ms": 640
      }
    ]
  }
}

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/news accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Bing News Search API parameters
Name	Type	Default	Description
`q` required	string	–	The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
`engine`	string \| string[]	google	"bing" for this page. "auto" tries Google first and falls back to other engines; a list such as ["google", "bing"] limits the route to those engines.
`country`	string	us	Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…). Defaults to the country a location ends in.
`language`	string	en	Interface language, as a language code with an optional region (en, de, pt-BR, zh-TW…).
`page`	integer	1	Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
`format`	string	json	Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
`fields`	string	–	Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
`max_age`	integer	–	Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the /v1/news reference. Queue up to 100 requests at half price with POST /v1/batches.

Use cases

What people build with the Bing News Search API

Replace the retired Bing API

Point code that called Bing Web Search v7 at /v1/search with engine=bing and keep getting Bing's results.

Bing visibility checks

See where a domain shows up on Bing for a keyword, next to its Google position.

Grounding without Azure

Give an agent Bing web results as JSON or Markdown without an Azure AI Agents setup.

Pricing