Google data API · News

Google News API. Pay per record.

Search Google News for any topic, company or person in the news and get the articles back as JSON: headline, publisher, date, link and image. Narrow by how recent, country and language.

Price: $0.0018 / article
Billed: Per record
Free to start: $0.10
Endpoint: POST /v1/google

Updated 21 October 2026

What people build with the Google News API

Company news monitoring

Check a list of companies every morning and get the articles from the last day for each one.

Sales triggers

Funding, launches and new offices show up in the news first. Search for them and act the same week.

Research briefs

Give an agent the past week's coverage of a topic before it writes a summary, with every source linked.

Quote it, then run it

1. free quote: the exact price, nothing charged

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/google \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"news","query":"electric vehicles","postedWithin":"7d","country":"US","language":"en","limit":20,"estimateOnly":true}'

2. the same call, run

curl -X POST https://apiforagents.dev/v1/google \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AFA_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"op":"news","query":"electric vehicles","postedWithin":"7d","country":"US","language":"en","limit":20}'

Inputs

Everything you can send in one news call. Required inputs first.

Input	Type	What it does
query *	string	≤300 chars
postedWithin	enum
country	string	The Google News market and its language. ISO alpha-2
language	string	BCP-47
limit	integer	1-100

What comes back

The fields of every row, always present. Nothing is guessed: a value that could not be measured is null, and the answer's coverage says why.

Field	Type
articleUrl	string
title	string
source	string
publishedAt	string
publishedTimestamp	integer
imageUrl	string
details	object

details is always the last field: everything else the source sent for that row, under our own field names. Its keys depend on the source that answered, so read them defensively; it is {} when there is nothing more.

A sample answer

Made-up names and values in the real field names, so you can see the shape before you spend anything.

title	source	publishedAt	articleUrl	imageUrl	details
Kitebank opens its first branch in Europe	Daily Ledger	2026-10-15T08:00:00Z	https://www.google.com/kitebank-opens-its-first-branch-in…	https://img.google.com/kitebank-opens-its-first-branch-in…	{}
Northfold raises $40M to automate finance teams	Tech Wire	2026-10-13T14:30:00Z	https://www.google.com/northfold-raises-40m-to-automate-f…	https://img.google.com/northfold-raises-40m-to-automate-f…	{}
Fintech funding rebounds in Q3	Market Desk	2026-10-12T06:15:00Z	https://www.google.com/fintech-funding-rebounds-in-q3-1002	https://img.google.com/fintech-funding-rebounds-in-q3.jpg	{}

Pricing

Pay as you go, in US dollars, per record. No subscription, nothing expires, $5 first top-up, and every new agent starts with $0.10 free.

Request	Records	At the list price
One article	1	$0.0018
10 articles	10	$0.018
A full page	100	$0.18

These are per-record list prices. Some calls also carry a minimum, such as a page of search results, so a small request can cost more than the table shows. The quote ("estimateOnly": true) is free, gives the most your exact request can cost, and the charge then settles to what came back. Records that do not come back are refunded.

Try it without writing code

Open the Google News API in the playgroundThe 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.

Why this one, and not a scraper you run yourself

No login, no Google account, no cookies, no proxies, no browser to babysit.
When the site changes its pages, your request stays the same: keeping the reads working is our job, not yours.
A fetch that fails costs nothing: it is named in the answer with a reason, and the quote says the most a call can cost before it runs.

Use it from your tools

Questions people ask.

What does the Google News API return?

One row per article: title, the publisher, the published time, the article URL and an image URL.

What do I pass in?

A query of up to 300 characters, and optionally postedWithin (1h, 1d, 7d, 1y or any), a country for the news market, a language and a limit of up to a hundred articles.

How much does it cost?

$0.0018 per article at the list price. A small call can carry a minimum, so quote first with "estimateOnly": true: the quote is free and is the most the call can cost. You pay for what comes back.

Try it in a minute. $0.10 free.

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.

Try this endpoint in the playground

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Why people pick 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.

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