SerpApi Google News

Google News results parsed into JSON, with a playground and many client libraries

Founded: 2017 | Austin, Texas, USA | Team: 11–50

4.0 / 5

Web search indexStory/event clusteringLLM/agent tooling

Overview Features Pricing Pros & cons Alternatives FAQ

What is SerpApi Google News?

SerpApi has been bootstrapped since Julien Khaleghy founded it in Austin, Texas, in 2017, and it has an estimated 20–50 staff. Its Google News API returns what Google News shows for a query or topic as JSON, with titles, sources, dates and Google's story groupings. Developer experience is a strength: there is an interactive playground that shows the request and response side by side, and official libraries for Python, Node, Ruby and several other languages. Third-party roundups put the free allowance at about 250 searches a month and paid plans from roughly $25 for 1,000. The data is scraped from Google's pages, so you get no article text, and SerpApi offers US customers a legal-protection pledge covering that scraping.

Typical uses: SEO, Marketing & PR, AI & LLM apps, Media monitoring. What sets it apart: Google News rankings and story groupings as structured JSON.

What does the SerpApi Google News API include?

REST APIJSONPython SDKNode.js SDKRuby SDK

Capability
Web search index
Story/event clustering
LLM/agent tooling

SerpApi Google News pricing

Short answer: the pricing model is monthly search plans; free allowance. Entry price: $25/mo.

Access model	What it means
Free tier	Permanent free allowance, usually with request, history or commercial-use limits
Monthly plans	Self-serve subscription with published quotas
Enterprise contract	Negotiated licence covering volume, rights and SLA

API prices and quotas change often. Check SerpApi Google News's own pricing page before you commit, and confirm that your use is covered by the licence.

SerpApi Google News pros and cons

Advantages	Things to consider
+The playground makes building a query fast	-Titles and links only, with no article body or archive
+Official client libraries in many languages	-Results depend on Google's layout, which can change without notice
+One account covers Google Search, Maps, Shopping and other engines	-Per-search billing adds up for wide monitoring
+A legal-protection pledge for US customers

SerpApi Google News vs alternatives

How SerpApi Google News compares to the other top News APIs.

API	Best for	Key difference	Rating	Compare
NewsCatcher	Developers who want clean, deduplicated news without writing...	Summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done	4.7	Full comparison
NewsData.io	Developers who want a working news call within...	A free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan	4.6	Full comparison
Perigon	Indie developers and startups wanting enriched data at...	Entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly	4.5	Full comparison
NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry)	Developers building multilingual event or research tools.	Event records that join coverage of one story across languages	4.3	Full comparison
GNews	Small commercial apps needing a cheap, simple news...	Commercial rights and full article content for under €50 a month	4.3	Full comparison
Webz.io	Data engineers backfilling years of news for datasets.	History back to 2008 and the widest claimed source count here	4.2	Full comparison
Exa	RAG and agent developers needing semantic news retrieval.	Search by meaning with page text returned in the same request	4.2	Full comparison
Tavily	Agent builders adding a news tool in a...	Built-in LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations that return prompt-ready text	4.1	Full comparison
World News API	Location-aware apps on a small budget.	Latitude, longitude and radius filters from the $39 plan, plus a URL text extractor	4.1	Full comparison
NewsAPI.org	Learning projects and prototypes that follow existing tutorials.	The largest pile of tutorials, wrappers and answered questions of any news API	4.0	Full comparison
GDELT Project	Zero-budget data projects and research prototypes.	No key, no fee and global coverage refreshed every 15 minutes	3.9	Full comparison
Brave Search API	Developers replacing Bing News Search with an independent...	Results from its own crawler, independent of Google and Bing	3.9	Full comparison
Serper Google News	Agent prototypes needing cheap Google News lookups.	About $1 per 1,000 Google queries on the entry pack, by third-party figures	3.9	Full comparison
Marketaux	Fintech developers needing ticker-tagged news cheaply.	Entity-level sentiment on every article, free plan included	3.9	Full comparison
Alpha Vantage News & Sentiment	Hobby quants wanting news sentiment beside price data.	Ticker and topic sentiment scores from the same key as market data	3.8	Full comparison
Massive (ex-Polygon.io) News	Trading-app developers already using Polygon or Massive data.	Per-ticker sentiment with a written reason, included in stock data plans	3.8	Full comparison
Mediastack	Low-traffic sites needing a cheap commercial headline feed.	Commercial use and historical news from $24.99 a month	3.8	Full comparison
Guardian Open Platform	Students and researchers needing free full-text articles.	Free full article bodies from a major newspaper, with editorial tags	3.8	Full comparison
Diffbot	Developers collecting news from a fixed list of...	Parser-free extraction from any article URL, linked to a Knowledge Graph	3.7	Full comparison
Finnhub	Personal fintech projects needing news and prices from...	A 60-calls-a-minute free key covering company news and market data	3.7	Full comparison
DataForSEO Google News	High-volume Google News rank tracking on a budget.	About $0.60 per 1,000 Google News result pages in the Standard queue	3.7	Full comparison
TheNewsAPI	Personal dashboards needing a cheap general feed.	Possibly the lowest paid entry price here, if third-party pricing is current	3.6	Full comparison
NYT Developer APIs	Students and historians working with Times metadata.	Searchable headlines and abstracts for every Times issue since 1851	3.5	Full comparison
Benzinga	Trading platforms needing a licensed market newswire.	Original market headlines with ratings and earnings events in one feed	3.5	Full comparison
Quantexa News API (Aylien)	Teams maintaining an existing Aylien integration.	Aylien's fine-grained entity and category tagging	3.4	Full comparison
APITube	Developers comparing coverage in a side-by-side trial.	Sentiment and entity filters offered on lower tiers	3.4	Full comparison
Currents API	Coursework and hackathons needing a free feed.	A free tier that tutorials and roundups often recommend	3.3	Full comparison

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SerpApi Google News FAQ

What is SerpApi Google News?

Google News results parsed into JSON, with a playground and many client libraries

How much does SerpApi Google News charge?

Pricing model: monthly search plans; free allowance. The cheapest paid access listed is $25/mo. Free access: yes, with limits.

Which formats and SDKs does SerpApi Google News support?

SerpApi Google News offers REST API, JSON, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, Ruby SDK.

Is SerpApi Google News right for enterprise?

Yes, SerpApi Google News sells enterprise contracts. Main caveat: Titles and links only, with no article body or archive.

What are the best SerpApi Google News alternatives?

The best alternatives to SerpApi Google News depend on your use case. Top options are:

NewsCatcher: summaries, story clusters, entities and geotags arrive in the response, so the processing code you would otherwise write is already done
NewsData.io: a free allowance that refills daily, with country and language filters on every plan
Perigon: entity, topic and cluster data from the $25 plan up, with all tiers priced publicly

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