Google News API
Headline, source, date, and a real article image, as clean JSON.
One request, real headlines
The imageUrl is the article's real hero image, not a tiny thumbnail, so it drops straight into a feed or a brief.
How do you get started?
No code needed. From zero to a page of headlines in about two minutes:
- 1
Create a free account. You get 3,000 credits a month, no card needed.
- 2
Type a news search in the playground. A brand, a topic, a ticker. The articles land in a table.
- 3
Export the CSV, or copy your key from the dashboard and run the curl above for JSON.
What data do you get?
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.
A news feed, a brand monitor, or an LLM's news context needs normalized results with images and summaries. That is what this API returns.
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 search, 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.
How much does the News API cost?
One search returns the whole page of articles for a single credit. A search that returns none costs nothing, and credits never expire.
| What you pull | Credits | You pay |
|---|---|---|
| 3,000 searches a month | 3,000 | $0, free every month, no card |
| 25,000 searches | 25,000 | $49 ($1.96 per 1,000) |
| 100,000 searches | 100,000 | $149 ($1.49 per 1,000) |
| 500,000 searches | 500,000 | $549 ($1.10 per 1,000) |
| 2.5 million searches | 2,500,000 | $1,999 ($0.80 per 1,000) |
Packs continue up to 250 million credits for $100,000, which is $0.40 per 1,000. Prices ex-tax.
It's a drop-in swap for serper: same JSON, just point your requests here.
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.
Who uses this API?
- Brand and PR teams. Run a company name on a schedule and catch every new story, with the image and snippet ready for a report.
- App and feed builders. Image-rich headlines with direct publisher links drop straight into a product news feed.
- AI builders. Fresh news context for an LLM: clean snippets and dates as JSON, no XML parsing.
- Researchers and analysts. Follow a market, a competitor, or a story over time and export the rows to a sheet.
Common questions
No. Google discontinued its News API in 2016 and never replaced it. The only official option left is an RSS feed, which gives headlines and redirect links but no images, snippets, or ranking control. A structured Google News API like this one fills that gap.
RSS gives you a headline, a Google redirect URL, and a timestamp. This returns structured JSON with the article's real hero image, a clean snippet, the direct publisher link, and the source, ready to drop into a feed or a brief.
Yes. Query any term and get the current Google News results for it. Run it on a schedule to track a brand, a competitor, or a story as it develops.
Yes. The JSON is serper-compatible, so switching is a URL and header change. Credits never expire, empty searches are free, and the free tier refills at 3,000 a month.
One credit per search: $49 buys 25,000 searches, $149 buys 100,000, up to $0.40 per 1,000 at scale. Credits never expire.
Get Google News as clean JSON
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