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Overview
Webz.io, formerly Webhose.io, is an Israeli company that crawls news sites, blogs, forums and the dark web and sells the results as structured data feeds for media monitoring, financial analysis, cybersecurity and AI companies. Its products include News API, Blogs and Forums APIs, archived web data with more than ten years of history, a Dark Web API, a data breach detection API and the Lunar cyber protection platform. The crawling technology dates back to Omgili, which Ran Geva co-founded in 2007, and Webhose.io was launched in 2016 by Geva and Guy Mor as a bootstrapped business.
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Best Contextual News Search APIs for AI in 2026
Traditional news APIs are designed around keywords. You send: NVIDIA AND China and receive articles containing those terms. That works for feeds and monitoring rules, but it is a poor fit for many AI applications. An AI agent may need to find: Companies m
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Build a Free Adverse Media Monitor with Webz.io News API and Google Apps Script
You can build a useful adverse-media monitoring service without running a server, maintaining your own news crawler, or paying for separate monitoring software. This tutorial uses: Webz.io News API to search and classify news Google Sheets to maintain the
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How to Build a Free Weekly News Newsletter with the Webz.io News Search API
A weekly news newsletter can be useful for keeping employees, clients, or customers informed about a specific industry, market, company, or risk area. The problem is that producing one manually means repeating the same work every week: searching for artic
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Webz.io Opens Its Open Web APIs to Every Developer
Testing a data API should begin with a query, not a meeting. Webz.io has opened access to its open web products, giving anyone with a working email address the ability to start using its News, Blogs, Forums, and Reviews APIs. Every account includes up to
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Before It Becomes a Headline: Why Government News Is the Signal Most News APIs Miss
Most news monitoring begins too late. By the time an event appears in a major publication, it has already passed through several stages. An agency issued a notice. A regulator published a filing. A municipality announced a restriction. A health authority
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Measuring Blind Spots in Global News Coverage: Local, Non-English, Emerging Market, and Low-Digitization Sources
Global news coverage is easy to describe and hard to measure. A platform can collect millions of articles, span hundreds of countries, and support many languages, yet still miss the first source that matters for a specific risk, company, market, or event.
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Latency in News APIs: Publication Time vs Discovery Time vs Indexing Time vs Delivery Time
Latency in News APIs: Publication Time vs Discovery Time vs Indexing Time vs Delivery Time Latency is one of the most important parts of a news API, and also one of the easiest to misunderstand. Buyers often ask whether a news API is real time, but "real
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CTF Google CTF 2025 - webz : Exploiting zlib's Huffman Code Table English
webz is a zlib exploitation challenge from Google CTF 2025. The Google-zlib implementation provided in the challenge is not upstream; it's a version w
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Top 6 Cyberattacks Against Governments on the Deep and Dark Web Webz.io
Read more about Top 6 Cyberattacks Against Governments on the Deep and Dark Web in our Dark Web Pulse article.
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The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War in the Deep and Dark Web
Read more about The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War in the Deep and Dark Web in our Dark Web Pulse article. This war engulfed the deep and dark web.
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Technologies named in job postings at Webz.io over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
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Blogs and Forums APIs
Feeds of posts from blogs, discussion forums and review sites. They share the query language of the News API.
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Dark Web API
Data crawled from dark web marketplaces and forums for threat intelligence. A data breach detection API and the Lunar platform build on it.
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News API
Structured feeds of articles crawled from news sites worldwide, with filtering and enrichment. Historical archives of more than ten years are sold separately.
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People
Ran Geva
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded the search and crawling startup Omgili in 2007 with Israel Tzadok and later Webhose.io with Guy Mor. He leads Webz.io as chief executive.
Guy Mor
Co-founder & COO
Co-founded Webhose.io with Ran Geva and serves as chief operating officer.
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Hiring Momentum
48/100
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Every ~4 hours
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+100%
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100% ▲
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Bnei Brak
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Address: 7 Metsada St., Bnei Brak 5126112, Israel.
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
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Address: 7 Metsada St., Bnei Brak 5126112, Israel.
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