# 12 things to build with Google data.

> Ideas to build with public Google data: news monitors, rank trackers, research assistants, Play Store review insights and shopping price checks.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/ideas/google-data · Updated 2026-10-21

Google data is good for seeing what the web, the news, Google Shopping and the Play Store say about something. Each idea below names the operations it calls, so you can quote it and run it.

- Operations: 5
- Price: from $0.00009 per record
- Free to start: $0.10

## The ideas

- **[A company news monitor](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api).** For sales, investor and PR teams. It reads news on chosen companies from the last day and sends a digest. Uses news.
- **[A search rank tracker](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For marketers. It runs the same queries by country and language and records where their pages rank. Uses search.
- **[A research assistant with sources](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For analysts and students. An agent searches with operators and date limits and answers with links. Uses search.
- **[A competitor content finder](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For content teams. It searches one site, or sites related to it, to list what a rival publishes. Uses search.
- **[A report and PDF finder](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For researchers. It searches by file type to find reports on a topic. Uses search.
- **[An app review insight report](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/play-store-reviews-api).** For app teams. It reads recent Play Store reviews and groups bugs and requests. Uses playReviews.
- **[A shopping price check](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/shopping-api).** For shoppers and sellers. It reads Google Shopping offers for a product with merchant and price. Uses shopping.
- **[A press coverage report](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api).** For PR teams. It reads news on a launch over a week and lists publishers and dates. Uses news.
- **[A list page lead finder](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For sales teams. It searches for public list pages of companies in a niche to start a lead list. Uses search.
- **[An image reference finder](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/images-api).** For designers. It finds images for a query with their source pages, so rights can be checked at the source. Uses images.
- **[A rival app tracker](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/play-store-reviews-api).** For product managers. It reads the newest reviews of competing apps each week. Uses playReviews.
- **[A new mentions finder](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api).** For brand teams. It searches the brand name between two dates to find pages that are new. Uses search.

## Each idea and what it calls

| Idea | Operations | One call returns | Main operation price |
|---|---|---|---|
| A company news monitor | news | Up to 100 articles | news: $0.0018 per record |
| A search rank tracker | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |
| A research assistant with sources | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |
| A competitor content finder | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |
| A report and PDF finder | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |
| An app review insight report | playReviews | Up to 100 reviews | playReviews: $0.00009 per record |
| A shopping price check | shopping | Up to 100 offers | shopping: $0.0027 per record |
| A press coverage report | news | Up to 100 articles | news: $0.0018 per record |
| A list page lead finder | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |
| An image reference finder | images | Up to 100 images | images: $0.0009 per record |
| A rival app tracker | playReviews | Up to 100 reviews | playReviews: $0.00009 per record |
| A new mentions finder | search | Up to 5 pages of about ten results | search: $0.0009 per record |

## How to start

1. Sign up. An agent registers itself with one POST and starts with $0.10 of free credit; a person can sign up on the site instead.
2. Quote the first call for free: send the search request with "estimateOnly": true and read the price before anything is spent.
3. Run the same call with "maxUsd" set as a ceiling, and keep the rows it returns.
4. Schedule it: repeat the call daily or weekly and compare each run with the last one you kept.

## Operations used

- [Google Search API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api): $0.0009 per record. Google web results.
- [Google News API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api): $0.0018 per record. Google News articles for a query.
- [Google Play Reviews API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/play-store-reviews-api): $0.00009 per record. Play Store reviews for up to five apps, by package id or store URL.
- [Google Shopping API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/shopping-api): $0.0027 per record. Google Shopping offers for a query.
- [Google Images API](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/images-api): $0.0009 per record. Google Images for a query.

## Questions

### How is web search billed?

Per page of about ten results, up to five pages a call. The other operations are billed per record.

### Do I need a Google account to build these?

No. The API reads public data and never asks for your login, password or cookie.

### What does a run cost?

Google records are priced from $0.00009 per record. A call can carry a minimum, so send it first with "estimateOnly": true. The quote is free and is the most the call can cost.

### Can an AI agent build and run these on its own?

Yes. It signs itself up with one call and gets $0.10 free, quotes each call before it spends, and pays from a prepaid balance. "maxUsd" caps every call, and only a person can add money.

## Why API for Agents

- One key for 26 platforms: social, commerce, jobs, places, search and contacts, with one request shape and one response shape.
- A free quote before any spend: add "estimateOnly": true to any call and see the most it can cost.
- Pay per record in US dollars. No subscription, nothing expires, top-ups from $5.
- $0.10 free to try, no card. An AI agent can sign itself up in one request; a person claims it later.
- Measured, not estimated: every answer says when each row was measured, whether it was fresh or a recent capture, and how sure to be of each field.
- Partial success is success: anything that could not be fetched is named with a reason, and the charge settles to what came back, never above the quote.
- Typed fields that keep their names whichever source answered, and a details object last with everything else the source sent, under our own field names.
- Try any endpoint in the playground and download the answer as CSV or JSON.

## Start

The playground runs any endpoint by hand: pick a platform and what you want from it, fill a short form named in plain words (or press Use sample input), see the free quote on the Run button, run it, then read the answer as a table or JSON and download it as CSV or JSON. The same call is written out as cURL, Python and Node while you type. Open it at https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run (sign in first).

Agents register at https://apiforagents.dev/auth.md (one POST, $0.10 free). People: https://apiforagents.dev/docs#start. Prices: https://apiforagents.dev/pricing.md