Google News API

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.answerline.dev/v1/monitor/google/news" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"electric vehicle battery","country":"FR","hl":"fr"}'

import { Client } from "@answerline/sdk";

const client = new Client({ apiKey: process.env.API_KEY! });
const answer = await client.monitor.googleNews({
  "query": "electric vehicle battery",
  "country": "FR",
  "hl": "fr"
});

import os
from answerline import Client

with Client(os.environ["API_KEY"]) as client:
    answer = client.monitor.google_news(
        query="electric vehicle battery",
        country="FR",
        hl="fr",
    )

Every request option is on the Google News reference page.

What you get back

Full field definitions are on the Google News reference page.

Google News results versus developer APIs

This endpoint returns Google News results for a query, country and interface language as newsResults: the articles, their publishers, dates and positions as a reader sees them.

Google’s JSON API for web search, the Custom Search JSON API, does not return that list. Its overview (checked 2026-09-17, developers.google.com) says it returns web and image results from a Programmable Search Engine, is closed to new customers, and gives existing customers until January 1, 2027 to transition. Its cse.list reference (checked 2026-09-17, developers.google.com) does not mention news results.

A publisher feed or news database gives you coverage. It does not tell you which outlets Google surfaces for a query and in what order, which is what readers see first. The same query can also surface different publishers in different countries and languages; country/gl and hl make each edition a separate, repeatable measurement. Every article comes back on page 1, in position order, so you can measure how far down a story sits.

An annotated response

The excerpt follows the result schema for POST /v1/monitor/google/news. Values are illustrative.

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "newsResults": [
      {
        // 1-indexed position across the results returned.
        "position": 1,
        "title": "Battery makers race to cut cobalt use",
        // A news.google.com redirect to the article.
        "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiExample?oc=5",
        // Publisher name as shown.
        "source": "Example News",
        // Publication time, ISO 8601 UTC.
        "date": "2026-10-19T08:30:00.000Z",
        // Always 1: every article is on page 1.
        "page": 1
      },
      {
        "position": 2,
        "title": "Electric vehicle battery prices: what changed this quarter",
        "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiExample2?oc=5",
        "source": "Example Auto",
        "date": "2026-10-18T16:05:00.000Z",
        "page": 1
      }
    ]
  }
}

result.provenance reads interface rss (all fields).

Notes for this engine

Geo and language targeting

Google News has no location; country and language set the edition. A US state is accepted and implies country US, but the edition is the whole US; only ChatGPT and Gemini answer from inside a state (states). For multilingual watchlists, write the query in each edition’s language instead of reusing an English query everywhere; multilingual AI answers applies the same principle to assistants.

Handling the results

• date is an ISO 8601 UTC timestamp. source and date are omitted when the feed has none.
• There is no snippet, thumbnail or redirectLink.
• link is a news.google.com redirect. POST /v1/monitor/google/goto does not resolve it.

Positions and the article set change as stories develop. Keep a stable cadence per query, put the run period in the idempotency key, and compare like-for-like periods.

Syndicated stories can share titles across publishers, so key articles on link and use source as the publisher.

Quote names to avoid partial matches, and review screening hits by hand: a surname match is not an adverse finding.

Pages above 1 are free but add no articles. Leave pages at 1.

Related: the best news APIs compared, every request field, news monitoring, the Google News API post, adverse media screening, brand protection, brand crisis AI monitoring, threat intelligence, Google News RSS feeds, free news APIs.

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