Google News scraper API

Scrape Google News as clean JSON: headline, source, date, snippet, link, and a real hero image per article. One credit per search, and empty searches cost nothing.

3,000 free / month, no card Full article snippet + image ~1 second responses
PULLED LIVE FROM THE API, JULY 20, 2026

One request, real response

# one credit per search; the whole page of articles comes back, zero results cost nothing curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=news&q=openai" -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

The same articles as CSV first, so it drops straight into Sheets or a CRM:

title,source,date,link "China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance","The Verge","8 hours ago","https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967781/..." "An OpenAI exec's comments on China's Kimi K3 kicked off a US tech debate","Business Insider","14 hours ago","https://www.businessinsider.com/open-source-ai-china-kimi..."

Add gl and hl for country and language, and page with num for more results.

WHAT EVERY ARTICLE INCLUDES

The full record, ready to use

Every article comes complete, so you build a feed or a dataset with no second call. The same record as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:

title,source,link,date,imageUrl,position "China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance","The Verge","https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967781/...","8 hours ago","https://platform.theverge.com/.../gettyimages-2286280034.jpg",1

Or the same record as JSON:

// the top article in full { "title": "China delivers a one-two punch to America's AI dominance", "source": "The Verge", "link": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/967781/...", "date": "8 hours ago", "imageUrl": "https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/gettyimages-2286280034.jpg", "position": 1 }
HOW IT COMPARES

vs serper and serpapi

Both return Google News as JSON. The difference is what each result carries and how you pay for it.

Other News APIsCrustAPI News
Billing unitPer searchPer search, and a search with no results is free
Article imageSmall gstatic thumbnailThe real publisher hero image (og:image)
SnippetIncludedIncluded
Free tierTrial credits that expire3,000 credits / month, no card
Credits expiryExpire monthly or in 6 monthsNever expire
Storing the dataVaries by providerNo storage limits. Keep it, export it, build on it
PRICING

One credit per search

Prepaid packs, and credits never expire: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, all self-serve, ex-tax. One search returns the whole page of articles for a single credit. A search that returns none costs nothing.

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3,000 credits a month. No card, no contract.
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THE DIFFERENCE YOU SEE

Real hero images, not tiny thumbnails

Most News APIs hand back a small gstatic thumbnail. CrustAPI returns the article's real og:image, the same large image the publisher put at the top of the page, so a news feed or a briefing looks finished without a second scrape.

Related: Google News API · Google Search API · Google Reviews API

FAIR PLAY

When a licensed news feed is the better pick: you need full article bodies with a publisher license, guaranteed historical archives going back years, or a contract that indemnifies redistribution. Google News gives you the headline, source, snippet, and link, which is what most monitoring and research work needs, but it is not a licensed full-text archive.

BEFORE YOU ASK

Common questions

WORKS WITH YOUR STACK

Try it on a topic you track

3,000 free credits covers a real news feed. Run one search and look at the JSON that comes back.

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