The latest articles on Forem by Soumit S Rah (@cocopuff). https://forem.com/cocopuff https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F2666928%2F7876c0ed-16c2-4f2f-a5d4-bbd8c121936a.jpg https://forem.com/cocopuff en Soumit S Rah Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:41:43 +0000 https://forem.com/cocopuff/i-built-beans-a-semantic-news-blogs-api-mcp-for-ai-agents-and-rag-1c6c https://forem.com/cocopuff/i-built-beans-a-semantic-news-blogs-api-mcp-for-ai-agents-and-rag-1c6c <p>☕ After a whole lot of brewing, we are excited to finally launch <a href="https://developer.cafecito.tech/howtos/beans-howto" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beans</a> API &amp; MCP from <a href="https://cafecito.tech" rel="noopener noreferrer">Project Cafecito</a>.</p> <p>News APIs are over-priced. Most of them lack vector search capability. Almost all of them lack new propagation timeline and related news finding. <a href="https://cafecito.tech/beans" rel="noopener noreferrer">Beans</a> is different. We built it to <strong>beat market price</strong> and designed it for developers working on <strong>AI agents</strong>.</p> <h2> What is Beans? </h2> <p>It's an aggregation + search service that pulls fresh content from 7,000+ (We are adding new sources every week) news and blog publishers every day. No crawling, no maintenance — just clean, structured data.</p> <h2> Key Features </h2> <ul> <li>Natural language semantic search — Ask in plain text using vector-powered queries (with tunable accuracy)</li> <li>Intelligent filtering — By category, named entities, geography, content type, source, time range, and more</li> <li>Trend scoring — Surface what's actually gaining traction based on real social shares, likes and comments</li> <li>Built-in AI enrichment — Automatic extraction of entities, sentiment, topics, and regions</li> <li>Story propagation mapping — Automatically connect related articles across publishers to track how narratives spread</li> <li>Clean, consistent JSON output perfect for pipelines</li> </ul> <p>Whether you're building AI agents, RAG systems, market intelligence tools, automation workflows, or smart dashboards — Beans gives you high-quality, enriched news data without the usual headaches.</p> <h2> Current Status </h2> <p>Free Tier v0.1 is now live and open for you to play with. It's still early — expect the brew to get stronger with your feedback.</p> <p><strong>Create a free <a href="https://developer.cafecito.tech/howtos/beans-howto" rel="noopener noreferrer">API key</a></strong> and get crackin'.</p> <p>We would love to get your feedback, <a href="https://github.com/soumitsalman/cafecito-api-manager/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml" rel="noopener noreferrer">bug reports</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/soumitsalman/cafecito-api-manager/issues/new?template=feature_request.yml" rel="noopener noreferrer">feature requests</a>. Drop a comment below:</p> <ul> <li>What use case would you use this for?</li> <li>What features would make it 10x more useful for your workflow?</li> </ul> <p>Happy building! 🚀</p> newsapi rag api news