Is there an official Google News API?

No. Google discontinued its News API in 2016 and never replaced it. The only official option is a Google News RSS feed, which provides headlines and redirect links but no images, snippets, or ranking control. CrustAPI provides a structured Google News API with images and clean snippets.

How is a Google News API better than the RSS feed?

RSS returns only a headline, a Google redirect URL, and a timestamp. CrustAPI's News API returns structured JSON with the article's real hero image, a clean snippet, the direct publisher link, and the source name.

How much does a Google News API cost?

CrustAPI charges 1 credit per article, $1.96 per 1,000 at entry falling to $0.40 per 1,000 at scale, with 3,000 free credits per month and credits that never expire.

Google News API

Google News results as clean JSON: headline, source, date, snippet, and a real article image. Track any topic or brand. One credit per result, empty searches free.

Real article images Clean snippets, not just links ~1 second responses

PULLED LIVE FROM THE API, JULY 13, 2026

One request, real headlines

# every article costs 1 credit; zero results cost nothing curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=news&q=tesla" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

// one of the articles returned, unedited: { "title": "Cybercabs will soon start ferrying Tesla employees at Giga Texas", "source": "Mashable", "date": "3 hours ago", "snippet": "Tesla Cybercabs will soon start offering Tesla employees rides at the Giga Texas factory.", "imageUrl": "https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/.../hero-image.png", "link": "https://mashable.com/tech/tesla-cybercab-employee-rides-texas", "position": 1 }

The imageUrl is the article's real hero image, not a tiny thumbnail, so it drops straight into a feed or a brief.

WHAT EVERY ARTICLE INCLUDES

The full story

HeadlineTitle PublisherSource WhenRelative date SummaryClean snippet MediaHero image URL LinkArticle URL RankPosition

THE PART MOST TEAMS GET WRONG

Google killed its News API, and RSS isn't a replacement

Google shut down its News API in 2016 and never replaced it. The only thing Google still offers is an RSS feed. It works, but it's thin.

A Google News RSS item gives you a headline, a Google redirect link, a timestamp, and the source name. No article image. No clean snippet. No way to control ranking or count. If you're building a news feed, a brand monitor, or an LLM's news context, you need normalized results with images and summaries, which is what this API returns.

SIDE BY SIDE

Google News RSS vs a real API

	Google News RSS	CrustAPI News
Article image	None	Real hero image
Snippet	A redirect link, no summary	Clean article snippet
Format	XML you parse yourself	Structured JSON
Links	Google redirect URLs	Direct publisher URLs
Price	Free, but bare	1 credit per article, empties free

Google's News API was discontinued in 2016; the RSS feed at news.google.com is the only remaining official option. Field comparison from a live RSS pull, July 13, 2026.

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PRICING

One credit per article

Prepaid packs, credits never expire: 25k for $49, 100k for $149, up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. A search that returns 10 articles costs 10 credits; a search that returns none costs nothing. It's a drop-in swap for serper: same JSON, just point your requests here.

FAIR PLAY

When the RSS feed is enough: you just want headlines and links for a personal reader, and you don't mind parsing XML or losing images and snippets. It's free and it's fine for that. This API is for when you need structured, image-rich news at scale.

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