The Google News API returns news articles for a topic in a country — title, link, source publication, publish date, snippet and image — paginated until you have as many as you asked for.
The reason to read Google News rather than a news API is coverage. Commercial news APIs index a curated set of publishers, typically in the low thousands and skewed toward English-language and larger outlets. Google News aggregates from tens of thousands of sources, including regional and non-English publications that curated indexes miss entirely. If your monitoring has to catch a story in a local paper before it reaches the nationals, breadth is the whole requirement.
$0.0005 per delivered article, up to 100 articles per run. Nothing delivered means nothing charged.
A topic query plus a country and language go in; the collector reads Google's News vertical from an exit in that country and returns articles as rows, paginating until max_results.
Country and language do more here than in any other collector. Google News is genuinely per-market: the same query in the US, Italy and India returns different publications, different framing and different stories, because each edition indexes a different publisher set. Monitoring a global brand means running the same query per market rather than translating one result set.
source is the publication name as Google attributes it, which is what makes tier analysis possible — separating a national broadsheet from a content farm is most of the work in any media monitoring pipeline.
query is required. country and lang select the Google News edition and the proxy exit together — set both explicitly, since the edition determines which publishers exist in the index at all. max_results caps delivery and cost.
One row per article. source is the publication, date the publish time as Google reports it, and description the snippet — not the article body, which is the publisher's copyrighted text and is not fetched. link goes to the article at its origin. image is the thumbnail where one is shown. For the full text of an article you would use a scraping endpoint against the specific URL, subject to that publisher's terms.
$0.0005 per delivered article ($0.50 per 1,000). Nothing delivered means nothing charged, and the $2 monthly free credit covers roughly 4,000 articles here. Volume tiers take up to 30% off.
$0.0005 per delivered article, 50 cents per 1,000. Monitoring 50 brand and topic queries across 5 markets daily at 30 articles each is 7,500 rows, $3.75 a day.
Blocked pages and queries with no coverage are never billed — and "no coverage" is a real finding in media monitoring rather than an error. The free $2 monthly allowance covers about 4,000 articles.
Google shut down its own News API years ago; what remains officially is RSS feeds, which are free, easy and genuinely useful for a handful of standing queries. They are also shallow — a fixed number of recent items per feed, no pagination, and no way to work back through a topic.
The commercial news APIs are the real alternatives and they offer things this does not: full article text under licence, historical archives going back years, sentiment scoring and entity extraction. If you need licensed full text or a five-year archive, buy one of those — this cannot substitute.
Where they lose is breadth and price. A curated index of a few thousand publishers misses the regional and non-English outlets that Google's aggregation covers, and subscriptions start where a lot of monitoring budgets end. For "tell me every article about this topic in these markets today", aggregation wins.
Google News is a heavily dynamic surface, which creates the usual problems in a slightly worse form:
Catch coverage as it appears, across markets, including the regional outlets a curated index would never carry.
Track competitor announcements, funding, launches and incidents from a broader base than a press-release feed.
Article volume per topic over time is a rough but honest attention signal, and source shows who is driving it.
Dated, source-attributed headlines and snippets give a model current context it can cite instead of a training-set memory.
Up to 100 articles per run with pagination handled internally. Broader coverage means more queries and more markets, parallel up to your plan's rate limit — 60 requests/minute on pay-as-you-go, up to 1,200 on the top tier. Snippets only; article bodies are not fetched.
Legally, this collector needs care about what you keep rather than what you collect. Headlines and short snippets are generally treated as permissible to index and quote, and collecting public data is generally lawful in most jurisdictions — but article text is the publisher's copyright, and several jurisdictions have specific press-publisher rights covering exactly this kind of aggregation. Analysing and linking is a very different posture from republishing. Google's terms also restrict automated access. Not legal advice.
Google discontinued its own News API; what remains officially is RSS feeds, which are free but shallow — a fixed number of recent items, no pagination, no way to work back through a topic. Here there is a free allowance of $2 a month with no card, about 4,000 delivered articles at $0.0005 each.
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$0.0005 per delivered article — 50 cents per 1,000 — with no subscription. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and queries with no coverage are never billed, which matters because 'no coverage' is a genuine finding in media monitoring.
No — title, source, date, snippet, image and link. Article bodies are the publisher's copyrighted text and are not fetched. For full text you would scrape the specific URL, subject to that publisher's terms, or licence it from a news API that sells it.
Coverage and price. Commercial APIs index a curated set of publishers — typically low thousands, skewed English-language — and offer licensed full text, archives and sentiment scoring. Google News aggregates tens of thousands of sources including regional and non-English outlets. If you need licensed full text or a multi-year archive, buy one of those; if you need breadth today, aggregation wins.
Yes, and you should run one query per market rather than translating results. Google News is genuinely per-edition: the same query in different countries returns different publications and different stories, because each edition indexes a different publisher set.
It reads the current news vertical rather than an archive, so it is a monitoring tool rather than a historical research one. For deep archives, the licensed news APIs are the right product.
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