Connexun

Connexun is a news and text analysis API company based in Milan, Italy. Its service delivers real time, multilingual headlines, articles and summaries gathered from tens of thousands of open web sources, and turns unstructured news content into structured data that developers can use in their own products. The engine behind the API is called B.I.R.B.AL., a proprietary system the vendor says was trained on a database of more than a million articles in several languages. Its listed capabilities are crawling and aggregating news, multiclass and multilingual classification, interlanguage clustering, topic ranking and extractive summarization, using supervised and unsupervised machine learning and deep learning. The vendor describes uses including real time news tracking, media intelligence, natural language processing, financial analysis, market research, and supplying datasets for training machine learning models. The same engine powers a mobile news app from the company. Developers, startups, analysts and businesses that need a news data feed or ready made language processing models are the intended users. The site offers API demos and a free trial that, according to the vendor, needs no sign up. The pricing page lays out tiers by daily call volume, from 1,000 to more than 50,000 calls per day, but its text is placeholder copy and only one price, 500 euros for the top tier, is legible. The vendor directs buyers to contact sales, so reliable plan prices are not published.