# Google News API. Pay per record.

> Google News articles as JSON: headline, publisher, date, link and image, by query, country and recency. From $0.0018 per article.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api · Updated 2026-10-21

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

## 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:

```bash
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:

```bash
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 playground](https://apiforagents.dev/dashboard/run?platform=google&op=news): 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.

## 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

- [Google in n8n](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/n8n/google)
- [Google in Make](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/make/google)
- [Google in Zapier](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/zapier/google)
- [Google in Python](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/python/google)
- [Google in LangChain](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/langchain/google)
- [Google in Claude Code](https://apiforagents.dev/integrations/claude-code/google)

## Questions

### 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.

## 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?platform=google&op=news (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