Currents API
Your AI agent stays informed so your customers do too. Currents News API delivers real-time articles from over 14,000 sources across 70+ countries and 18 languages. The agent fetches relevant headlines, searches by topic or region, and surfaces timely content, all within the conversation flow.
From breaking headlines to deep topic searches, your AI agent taps into the Currents News API to bring relevant, real-time journalism directly into customer and team conversations.
Currents API
Explore how businesses embed real-time news into AI agent conversations to keep customers informed, support content teams, and deliver timely industry updates.
A visitor to your fintech site asks about the latest regulatory changes. Your AI Agent searches the Currents API for 'fintech regulation' articles published in the past week, retrieves the top three results with headlines, summaries, and source links, and presents them in the chat. The visitor gets curated, relevant news without leaving your site. Your brand becomes a trusted information hub.
A Spanish-speaking customer asks your travel company about safety alerts for their destination. Your AI Agent calls the Currents latest news endpoint filtered by language 'es' and keyword for the destination country, returning relevant articles in Spanish. The customer receives timely, localized information. Your support team handles the inquiry without needing multilingual staff on every shift.
Your marketing team needs a daily digest of competitor mentions and industry trends. Your AI Agent searches the Currents API for relevant keywords each morning, compiles the top articles with titles and source URLs, and delivers the roundup in a team chat. No one spends 30 minutes scanning news sites manually. The competitive intelligence arrives before the first meeting of the day.
Currents API
FAQs
The Currents News API aggregates articles from over 14,000 sources and blogs across 70+ countries. Sources include major news outlets, niche publications, and blog content. The agent can filter results by domain if you want to limit to specific publishers or exclude certain sources from results.
Yes. Currents API supports 18 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, and more. The agent passes the language code as a filter parameter, returning only articles published in the specified language. This is particularly valuable for businesses serving multilingual audiences.
The latest news endpoint returns articles published within the last few hours, providing near real-time coverage. The search endpoint lets you filter by publication date using start and end date parameters, so you can retrieve articles from any time range. The agent fetches data live from Currents with every query.
Yes. The Currents API supports category filtering through the search endpoint. Available categories include business, technology, sports, entertainment, science, health, and more. The agent applies these filters to ensure the returned articles match the topic context of your conversation.
No. Each news query triggers a live API call to Currents. The agent presents article titles, descriptions, and source URLs within the conversation but does not cache or store the article content. Customers always see the freshest results from the most recent API response.
The free Currents API tier includes 1,000 requests per day. Paid plans offer higher limits. The agent makes one API call per news query, so a typical conversation with two to three news lookups uses minimal quota. You can monitor usage in your Currents dashboard to ensure you stay within your plan limits.
RSS feeds display a static list of articles. Your Tars AI Agent conducts dynamic, contextual searches based on what the customer is actually asking about. It filters by keyword, language, date, and category in real time. Customers get precisely relevant articles, not a generic news ticker. The agent also explains article relevance conversationally.
Absolutely. Your AI Agent can pull news from Currents and correlate it with data from your CRM, analytics, or other integrations in the same conversation. For example, a sales rep could ask for industry news about a prospect's company while simultaneously pulling their deal status from your CRM. Multiple tools work together seamlessly.
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