# Get the articles Google News lists for a query, in one API call

news.search asks Google News for a query in a location and returns the articles it lists as JSON: title, source, snippet, URL, publication time and image. RouterGrowth is independent and is not Google's API. The results come through DataForSEO's Google News endpoint, and every run names the provider that answered.

HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/web-scraping/google-news-api
Part of: [Web search and scraping tools](https://www.routergrowth.com/tools/web-scraping.md)

## The call

[`news.search`](https://www.routergrowth.com/catalog/news.search): Google News articles for a query and location: title, source, snippet, URL and publication time.

Price on this network: $0.0035 per search. The exact quote is shown before every run.

## What a real run returned

Run on 2026-10-26: 10 records in 14.6 s for $0.004. Personal fields are masked. Google News in the United Kingdom for semiconductor export controls, served by DataForSEO: ten articles from Reuters, law firms, think tanks and trade press, dated March to October 2026.

| published | source | title |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-26 | www.reuters.com | COMMENTARY: What's the latest with semiconductor export controls? |
| 2026-10-23 | www.tekedia.com | TSMC Seeks Rare-Earth-Free Factory Equipment as China’s Export Controls Threaten Chip Supp… |
| 2026-05-26 | www.nortonrosefulbright.com | Canada expands export controls on semiconductor equipment, advanced chips, and manufacturing technologies |

## How to do it

1. **Set query and location.** Pass the query and a country such as United Kingdom; the default is the United States.
2. **Call news.search.** One POST to /v1/run. The articles are in result.articles.
3. **Check the provider.** The run's provider field says who answered. dataforseo means the list is from Google News.
4. **Store and refresh.** Keep the URLs and rerun the query on a schedule to catch new articles.

## Ask it like this

- What does Google News in the UK list this month for semiconductor export controls? Group the articles by type of publisher. (`news.search`)
- Compare the Google News results for our brand in the United States, Germany and France, then scrape the newest article from each. (`news.search`, `web.scrape`)

## Connect

MCP server: `https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp`

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http routergrowth https://api.routergrowth.com/mcp
```

```bash
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup
routergrowth run -c news.search -i '{"query": "semiconductor export controls", "location": "United Kingdom", "limit": 8}'
```

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.routergrowth.com/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ROUTERGROWTH_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"capability": "news.search", "input": {"query": "semiconductor export controls", "location": "United Kingdom", "limit": 8}}'
```

## Worth knowing

- **Independent of Google.** RouterGrowth is not Google and this is not a Google API. The query goes to a data provider that reads Google News.
- **The fallback is not Google News.** If that provider fails, a web news search answers instead. The provider field on the run tells you which one served it.
- **Relevance, not only recency.** The list follows Google News ranking, so an article from months ago can sit next to one from this week.

## Questions

### Is this the Google News API?

No. RouterGrowth is independent of Google; news.search reads Google News results through a data provider.

### Which provider served my results?

The run's provider field says. This example ran on DataForSEO, which reads Google News.

### Can I pick a country?

Yes. Pass a country, or a city and country, in location. The run shows how it was read.

### Does it include Google News topics or top stories?

No. It runs the query you send and returns the matching articles.

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