# Search rank and news monitoring. Google web results and Google News.

> Track where your pages rank on Google for the queries that matter, by country and language, and catch news on your brand. Billed per page of results.

Canonical: https://apiforagents.dev/use-cases/search-rank-and-news-monitoring · Updated 2026-10-21

Run your keywords through Google search by country and language, and record each result's rank, title and snippet. Run the same names through Google News for headline, publisher and date.

- Google: from $0.00009 per record
- Search: Billed per page of about ten results
- Free to start: $0.10

## The workflow

1. Run Google search with a keyword, country and language. Each page holds about ten results with rank, title, snippet and link; pages goes from 1 to 5, and each page is billed.
2. Find your domain's position and your competitors'. Use site to check one domain, or operators such as intitle: and OR in the query.
3. Run Google news with your brand or a competitor, postedWithin "1d" or "7d", country and language: headline, publisher, date and link.
4. Store each run with its date and compare, and run it on a schedule from your own job.

## Who uses it

- **SEO teams and agencies.** Check rank for a keyword set in each market you sell in, with the page that ranks.
- **[PR and communications](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api).** A daily list of new articles that mention the brand, with publisher and date.
- **Research agents.** Narrow web results with since, until and fileTypes, such as pdf, to find reports and filings.

## Operations used

List prices per record. A call can carry a minimum, so quote first: the quote is free, and a record that does not come back is not charged.

| Step | Operation | What comes back | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google search | Organic links with title, snippet and rank, per page | $0.0009 per record |
| 2 | Google news | Headline, publisher, date, link | $0.0018 per record |

> **Ask for the depth you need** Search is billed per page of about ten results, not per result. Ask for one page when the top ten is enough, and quote deeper checks first with "estimateOnly": true.

## The operations in this workflow

- [Google search](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/search-api): Organic links with title, snippet and rank, per page
- [Google news](https://apiforagents.dev/platforms/google/news-api): Headline, publisher, date, link

## Questions

### Can I check rank in another country?

Yes. Set country to a two-letter code and language to a BCP-47 tag.

### Can I limit results to a date range?

Web search takes since and until. News takes postedWithin: 1h, 1d, 7d, 1y or any.

### How deep can one call go?

Up to five pages of about ten results each.

## 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