Real-time news results, structured for developers

Google News API for real-time news search data

Get structured Google News results with headlines, publishers, URLs, snippets, timestamps, and thumbnails for media monitoring, AI products, PR, research, and data workflows.

No credit card500 free requestsNo-code friendly

Google News API playground

Search live news. Inspect structured JSON.

Live Google News
US · en · day

artificial intelligence

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "freshness": "day",
  "news": [
    {
      "title": "AI investment accelerates as companies expand infrastructure",
      "link": "https://example.com/ai-investment",
      "source": "Technology Daily",
      "date": "2 hours ago",
      "snippet": "Technology companies announced new infrastructure investments as demand for AI products continues to grow.",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "title": "Global markets react to the latest technology earnings",
      "link": "https://example.org/markets-technology",
      "source": "Market Journal",
      "date": "5 hours ago",
      "snippet": "Investors assessed earnings reports and updated forecasts across the technology sector.",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "title": "New research highlights changes in enterprise AI adoption",
      "link": "https://example.net/enterprise-ai",
      "source": "Research Wire",
      "date": "Yesterday",
      "snippet": "A new report tracks how enterprises are deploying AI systems across operational workflows.",
      "position": 3
    }
  ],
  "stats": {
    "total_news": 3
  }
}

News availability and timestamps vary by topic, market, language, and freshness window.

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The problem

News search data is valuable, but difficult to structure

Headlines and coverage change quickly, stories are fragmented across publishers and markets, and manual monitoring cannot support product-scale workflows.

News moves fast

Static datasets become outdated before monitoring and research teams can act.

Fragmented coverage

The same event appears across publishers, regions, languages, and related stories.

Manual work fails

Discovery, filtering, deduplication, and tracking need automated data pipelines.

The solution

Turn Google News searches into structured API data

Collect developer-ready news results for monitoring, AI research, brand tracking, competitive intelligence, dashboards, and reporting.

News fields ready for your workflow

Normalize the context your monitoring product needs.

News headlines
Publisher names
Article URLs
Story snippets
Published dates
Thumbnail URLs
Result positions
Query and filter context
response.json
{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "freshness": "day",
  "news": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "AI investment accelerates",
      "source": "Technology Daily",
      "date": "2 hours ago",
      "link": "https://example.com/story",
      "snippet": "Technology companies..."
    }
  ]
}

Capabilities

Built for real-time news intelligence workflows

Retrieve current coverage without maintaining a news-search scraping and parsing system.

News search results

Fetch structured results for brands, people, companies, industries, and breaking topics.

Country and language targeting

Monitor how coverage appears across regions and languages with local market context.

Freshness filters

Retrieve results from the past hour, 24 hours, week, or month using real request filters.

Publisher intelligence

Track publisher fields in returned results and build source-specific monitoring workflows.

Story context

Use headlines, sources, timestamps, and snippets to identify related coverage in your application.

Structured JSON output

Receive normalized headlines, URLs, publishers, snippets, timestamps, thumbnails, and positions.

Use cases

Use Google News data across your product stack

Media monitoring

Track brand mentions, executives, competitors, crisis signals, and topic movement.

AI products

Give agents and research assistants fresh news context, source links, and snippets.

PR and communications

Monitor earned media, campaign coverage, publisher pickup, and regional visibility.

Research and data teams

Collect structured datasets for trends, market intelligence, event tracking, and reports.

How it works

From a news topic to usable data in three steps

Step 1

Send a news query

Choose a keyword, country, language, and freshness window.

Step 2

Olostep retrieves and structures

The API handles execution, result retrieval, parsing, and normalization.

Step 3

Use the response

Connect the JSON to AI, dashboards, alerts, databases, or reporting pipelines.

Developer experience

Simple for the first request. Flexible for production news workflows.

Use one REST request, API key authentication, country and language targeting, and freshness filters.

REST APIAPI key authenticationJSON responsesCountry and language targetingTime-period filtersBatch-ready workflows
Read the docs
cURL
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.olostep.com/v1/scrapes \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
    "url_to_scrape":
      "https://www.google.com/search?q=artificial+intelligence&tbm=nws&gl=us&hl=en&tbs=qdr:d",
    "formats": ["json"],
    "parser": {
      "id": "@olostep/google-news"
    }
  }'

Build or buy

Build your own news monitoring pipeline or use Olostep?

Focus product engineering on insights and alerts instead of collection, scheduling, localization, and publisher parsing.

Requirement
Build internally
Use Olostep
News collection
Build and maintain it
Request results through the API
Freshness
Run custom schedules
Use time-period parameters
Publisher parsing
Extract source information
Receive publisher fields
Localization
Build regional query logic
Use country and language controls
Monitoring
Build alerting integrations
Connect JSON to alerts
Developer time
High ongoing maintenance
Faster integration

Responsible news data workflows

Attribute publishers, use snippets and links responsibly, respect copyright and publisher restrictions, and verify rights before storing or redistributing content.

  • Avoid republishing full articles without rights
  • Do not store copyrighted media without permission
  • Use reasonable request rates and retention policies
  • Review local media, privacy, and data laws

Give AI products fresh news context

Ground assistants, market research agents, monitoring bots, crisis detection, policy tracking, and daily digests with current source context.

AI news assistantsCrisis detectionFinancial monitoringPolicy trackingMedia briefs

Pricing

Google News API pricing

Start with 500 free requests, then scale your news workflow.

Starter

$9/ month

For testing, prototypes, and small monitoring workflows.

  • Everything in Free
  • 5,000 successful requests
  • 150 concurrent requests

Standard

$99/ month

For dashboards, AI products, and recurring monitoring.

  • Everything in Starter
  • 200K successful requests
  • 500 concurrent requests

Scale

$399/ month

For high-volume platforms and enterprise workflows.

  • Everything in Standard
  • 1 million successful requests
  • AI-powered browser automations

Confirm current pricing and limits in the dashboard before purchase.

Frequently asked questions

Product & Capabilities

A Google News API lets developers send news queries programmatically and receive structured result data such as headlines, publishers, URLs, snippets, timestamps, and thumbnails.

Typical fields include headline, article URL, publisher, snippet, publication time, thumbnail URL, result position, and query metadata. Exact fields vary by result.

A Web Search API returns broad web results. This workflow targets Google News results and news-specific fields such as publishers, timestamps, headlines, and story snippets.

A Google News sitemap helps publishers submit their own articles. This API is for products that need to search, monitor, and structure news results.

Usage & Automation

No. This page describes Olostep's Google News results parser and scraping workflow, not an official Google product or partnership. Google News is a trademark of Google LLC.

Yes. The live request supports country and language targeting for regional and multilingual news monitoring.

Yes. The playground supports past-hour, past-24-hours, past-week, and past-month freshness filters.

Publisher information is returned where available. Dedicated publisher filtering depends on current parser and request coverage; confirm it in the documentation before production use.

Yes. Structured news results can provide fresh context and source links for agents, RAG workflows, monitoring systems, summaries, alerts, and reports.

Pricing & Plans

Do not assume full-article republication rights. News may be copyrighted, licensed, or restricted. Verify publisher terms and rights before storing or redistributing content.

No. Olostep handles request execution, retrieval, parsing, normalization, and JSON delivery.

Create an API key, run a sample news query, review the JSON response, and connect the endpoint to your product or workflow.

Add structured news search data without maintaining news scraping infrastructure

Start with one topic and connect current headlines, publishers, URLs, snippets, and timestamps to your product.