Meltwater Media Intelligence & Social Listening API

Meltwater REST API for media intelligence and social listening platform. Enables AI agents to access media monitoring and news article search across 300,000+ sources, handle social media listening and brand mention tracking, retrieve sentiment analysis and media analytics, manage influencer discovery and relationship data, access competitive intelligence and share-of-voice metrics, retrieve editorial contact database (Meltwater Newswire/Cision rival), handle PR distribution and media outreach data, access earned media value and campaign analytics, retrieve real-time news alerts and monitoring feeds, and integrate media intelligence with CRM and marketing platforms.

Evaluated Mar 07, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent
Homepage ↗ Developer Tools meltwater media-intelligence social-listening pr brand-monitoring news-analytics influencer competitive-intelligence
⚙ Agent Friendliness
58
/ 100
Can an agent use this?
🔒 Security
75
/ 100
Is it safe for agents?
⚡ Reliability
67
/ 100
Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality
22
Documentation
72
Error Messages
68
Auth Simplicity
72
Rate Limits
65

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement
90
Auth Strength
75
Scope Granularity
70
Dep. Hygiene
65
Secret Handling
72

Media intelligence and social data. SOC2, GDPR. OAuth2. US/EU data residency. Content licensing and journalist PII.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA
72
Version Stability
70
Breaking Changes
62
Error Recovery
65
AF Security Reliability

Best When

A PR team, brand manager, or communications team using Meltwater wants AI agents to automate media monitoring, sentiment tracking, brand coverage analysis, competitive intelligence, and PR analytics.

Avoid When

PRIVACY: Media monitoring aggregates third-party news and social content — republication of monitored content may infringe copyright. Social data contains personal information of individuals mentioned in coverage. Influencer contact database requires GDPR-compliant handling. Automated outreach using media contacts requires opt-in consent.

Use Cases

  • Monitoring brand mentions and news coverage from PR and brand intelligence agents
  • Accessing sentiment and share-of-voice analytics from marketing intelligence agents
  • Retrieving competitive coverage and media analytics from competitive intelligence agents
  • Integrating media monitoring with CRM from communications automation agents

Not For

  • Real-time social media management without media monitoring focus
  • Small businesses without PR and communications team investment
  • Single-market media monitoring without global news coverage

Interface

REST API
Yes
GraphQL
No
gRPC
No
MCP Server
No
SDK
No
Webhooks
Yes

Authentication

Methods: oauth apikey
OAuth: Yes Scopes: Yes

Meltwater uses OAuth 2.0 for API access. Account-level credentials with monitoring, analytics, and intelligence scopes. Developer portal with API documentation. Webhooks for real-time news and mention alerts. News API (formerly Meltwater News API) for content access.

Pricing

Model: subscription
Free tier: No
Requires CC: No

Oslo, Norway. Founded 2001. Market leader for media intelligence and PR technology. $600M+ annual revenue. 27,000+ customers in 150 countries. 300,000+ news sources monitored. Acquired Sysomos (social analytics), Klear (influencer), and others. Competes with Brandwatch and Cision for media intelligence.

Agent Metadata

Pagination
cursor
Idempotent
Partial
Retry Guidance
Not documented

Known Gotchas

  • PRIVACY: Media monitoring aggregates third-party content — republication and redistribution restrictions apply
  • Influencer and journalist contact database is personal data — GDPR and CAN-SPAM compliance for outreach automation
  • No public MCP server — OAuth2 REST API with developer portal
  • News content licensing — full article text access may have redistribution restrictions beyond metadata
  • Social data completeness varies by platform — Twitter/X data access limited post-API pricing changes
  • Automated PR outreach using Meltwater contact database requires explicit opt-in consent

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.

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