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Google News API

Search Google News for any topic and get articles with source, publish date, snippet and image. Filter to the last hour, day or week, and localize by country and language.

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1 credit per page of 10 articles 2,500 free credits, no card Failed calls are free

Overview

What the Google News API does

The Google News API returns the results of Google's News tab as JSON. Each article carries a resolved link, the publisher (source), a relative or absolute date, a snippet and a thumbnail.

Use time (hour, day, week, month, year) for recency, or a raw tbs range for custom windows. Combine with country and language to monitor local press in 40 countries.

What you get

news[] array
position, title, link, domain, source, date, snippet, image_url.
request object
Echo of the normalized request (endpoint, engine, q, country, language, page…), handy for logging.
meta object
request_id, credits_used, cached, engine, latency_ms, resolved_urls and parse_quality. parse_quality=empty means the call was not billed.

Request

curl https://api.serpkite.com/v1/news \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPKITE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"AI agents funding","country":"us","time":"week"}'

Response (illustrative, placeholder domains)

200 OK · application/json 
{
  "request": {
    "endpoint": "news",
    "engine": "google",
    "q": "AI agents funding",
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "page": 1
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Agent startups raised a record amount in Q3, data shows",
      "link": "https://news.example.com/2026/09/agent-startups-q3-funding",
      "domain": "news.example.com",
      "source": "Example News",
      "date": "2 hours ago",
      "snippet": "Investors poured money into companies building autonomous software agents, with infrastructure tools taking the largest share.",
      "image_url": "https://news.example.com/images/agents-q3.jpg"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "Why VCs are betting on agent infrastructure",
      "link": "https://techdaily.example.org/vc-agent-infrastructure",
      "domain": "techdaily.example.org",
      "source": "Tech Daily",
      "date": "1 day ago",
      "snippet": "Search, memory and evaluation tooling are attracting early-stage rounds as agent adoption grows."
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_01J8ZK4M6Q2V7",
    "credits_used": 1,
    "engine": "google",
    "cached": false,
    "latency_ms": 812,
    "resolved_urls": true,
    "parse_quality": "ok"
  }
}

Every response also carries X-Credits-Used, X-Credits-Remaining, X-Cache and X-Tokens-Estimate headers. Run this query in the playground

Reference

Parameters

The parameters /v1/news accepts, in the JSON body or the query string.

Google News API parameters
Name Type Default Description
q required string – The search query. Required. Up to 2,048 characters.
country string us Country to search from, as a two-letter ISO code (us, gb, de, in…).
language string en Interface language, as a language code (en, de, fr, pt-BR…).
location string – Canonical location for local results, e.g. "Austin, Texas, United States". Overrides country for geo.
num integer 10 Results per call. 10 per page; 100 fetches the top 100 as a depth bundle for 7 credits instead of 10. Values: 10, 20, 30, 50, 100.
page integer 1 Results page, 1–10. Each page is billed separately.
time string – Restrict to recent results. Shorthand for tbs=qdr:*. Values: hour, day, week, month, year.
format string json Response format. markdown is LLM-ready prose; compact is JSON with only the fields agents need. Values: json, compact, markdown.
fields string – Comma-separated projection, e.g. results.title,results.link,knowledge_graph. Cuts tokens.
max_age integer – Accept a cached result up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 50% of the credits.

Full reference, error codes and headers are in the API docs. Send a JSON array of up to 100 request objects to run them in one call.

Use cases

What people build with the Google News API

01

Current-events answers

Let an agent answer "what happened this week" with dated, sourced articles.

02

Brand and PR monitoring

Poll your brand or competitors hourly and alert on new coverage.

03

Market signals

Track funding, launches or regulatory news for a sector or ticker.

04

Local press coverage

Localize by country and language to see what regional outlets publish.

Pricing

Google News API pricing

Cost per call

1 credit

per page of 10 articles

  • From $0.60 per 1,000 calls at volume.
  • Credits never expire. No subscription.
  • Failed, empty and blocked calls are refunded.
  • 2,500 free credits = 2,500 calls, then 1,000 credits a month.

For reference: Serper lists Google searches at $1.00 per 1k on its entry tier and $0.30 at its best tier, and its credits expire after 6 months. SerpKite credits cost $1.00 to $0.60 per 1k.

See all pricing
Google News API cost per pack
Pack Price Per 1k credits Per 1k calls Calls per pack
Starter $10 $1.00 $1.00 10,000
Growth $50 $0.80 $0.80 62,500
Pro $300 $0.60 $0.60 500,000

FAQ

Google News API: common questions

Keep exploring

Related APIs and integrations

Google Search API Organic results, knowledge graph, answer box, PAA and related searches. Webpage to Markdown API Any URL to clean Markdown plus metadata, for RAG. Google Videos API YouTube and web videos with channel, duration and date.

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