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News Transforms

Modified on: Mon, 26 Apr, 2021 at 11:47 AM

Overview

Browse the news based on phrase, person, company and other inputs.


Integrated with the Bing News Search API , the News Transforms allow investigators to search the web for news articles and find context relevant to the persons, companies, locations, threats, and other topics involved in an investigation.


While the News Transforms Hub item is free to use for both community and commercial users, they’re allotted different weekly quotas: CE users have a limit of 30 Transform Runs, Pro users are granted 250 Transform Runs, and Maltego Enterprise customers have a quota of 1000 Transform Runs per week. Should you require more, you can sign up for a Bing Search API v7 key via https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing


These Transforms are especially helpful when running background checks or to quickly gather context on an investigative target.


For more information, read our Blog post Introducing Bing News Transforms to Query Bing News Articles in Maltego and visit our website here for more information.


To News Articles [Maltego News]

Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle

Variants

Transform NameInput EntitiesShort Description
maltego.News.phrase_to_articlesmaltego.PhraseSearch for news articles based on a phrase. The Phrase input will be forwarded to the Bing API as-is.
maltego.News.website_to_articlesmaltego.WebsiteSearch news articles from website

Description

Search news articles related to the given organization


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles related to Organization [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.organization_to_articles_related
Input Entitiesmaltego.Organization
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles related to the given organization

To News Articles with exact Organization [Maltego News]

Description

Search news articles containing the exact organization (input will be quote-escaped).


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles with exact Organization [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.organization_to_articles_exact
Input Entitiesmaltego.Organization
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles containing the exact organization (input will be quote-escaped).

Description

Search news articles related to the given person


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles related to Person [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.person_to_articles_related
Input Entitiesmaltego.Person
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles related to the given person

To News Articles with exact Person [Maltego News]

Description

Search news articles containing the exact person (input will be quote-escaped)


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles with exact Person [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.person_to_articles_exact
Input Entitiesmaltego.Person
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles containing the exact person (input will be quote-escaped)

Description

Search news articles related to the given Alias


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles related to Alias [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.alias_to_articles_related
Input Entitiesmaltego.Alias
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles related to the given Alias

To News Articles with exact Alias [Maltego News]

Description

Search news articles containing the exact Alias (input will be quote-escaped)


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles with exact Alias [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.alias_to_articles_exact
Input Entitiesmaltego.Alias
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles containing the exact Alias (input will be quote-escaped)

Description

Search news articles related to the given location


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles related to Location [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.location_to_articles_related
Input Entitiesmaltego.Location
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles related to the given location

To News Articles with exact Location [Maltego News]

Description

Search news articles containing the exact location (input will be quote-escaped)


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Categorystringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles with exact Location [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.location_to_articles_exact
Input Entitiesmaltego.Location
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles containing the exact location (input will be quote-escaped)

To News Articles within Category [Maltego News]

Description

Search news articles within a category


Transform Settings

Display NameSetting TypeDefault ValueOptionalPopupAuthentication
Bing API KeystringTrueFalsetrue
Country code (default: ‘us’)stringusfalsetruefalse
Language code (default: ‘en’)stringenfalsetruefalse
Safe SearchbooleanFalsefalsefalsefalse
Sincedatetruetruefalse
Site (Domain only)stringtruetruefalse
Search Termstringtruetruefalse

Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo News Articles within Category [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.category_to_articles
Input Entitiesmaltego.NewsCategory
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Short DescriptionSearch news articles within a category

To Source Website [Maltego News]

Description

Get the website that a news article originated from.


Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo Source Website [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.news_article_to_source
Input Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Output Entitiesmaltego.Website
Short DescriptionGet the website that a news article originated from.

To Category [Maltego News]

Description

Get the categorization (Business, Politics, etc.) for a news article.


Transform Meta Info

InformationValue
Display NameTo Category [Maltego News]
Owner 
AuthorMaltego Technologies
Data SourceMaltego News
Transform Namemaltego.News.news_article_to_category
Input Entitiesmaltego.NewsArticle
Output Entitiesmaltego.NewsCategory
Short DescriptionGet the categorization (Business, Politics, etc.) for a news article.

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