Google Search Console URL Notifications API

The urlNotifications API from Google Search Console — 2 operation(s) for urlnotifications.

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POST /v3/urlNotifications:publish Notify Google a URL was updated or deleted · Notifies that a URL has been updated or deleted #

Ask an LLM

“How do I tell Google's Indexing API that a page on my site just changed?”

“Can I notify Google that a URL has been removed so it drops it?”

Tell an agent

Notify Google that {url} was updated.

Send a {type} notification for {url} to the Indexing API.

GET /v3/urlNotifications/metadata Get Indexing API notification metadata for a URL · Gets metadata about a Web Document #

Ask an LLM

“What was the latest Indexing API notification Google received for my page?”

“Can I check notification history for a URL I never sent through the Indexing API?”

Tell an agent

Get the Indexing API notification metadata for {url}.

Show the most recent URL notification recorded for {url}.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Google Web Search Indexing URL Notifications API
  description: Notifies Google Web Search when your web pages change.
  version: v3
  contact:
    name: Google Search Central Help
    url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/
  termsOfService: https://developers.google.com/terms
  license:
    name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  x-discovery-revision: '20260805'
  x-documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/
servers:
- url: https://indexing.googleapis.com
  description: Web Search Indexing API
security:
- OAuth2:
  - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing
tags:
- name: urlNotifications
paths:
  /v3/urlNotifications:publish:
    post:
      operationId: indexing_urlNotifications_publish
      summary: Notifies that a URL has been updated or deleted
      description: Notifies that a URL has been updated or deleted.
      tags:
      - urlNotifications
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlNotification'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PublishUrlNotificationResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request — invalid or improperly formed request.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized — missing or invalid OAuth 2.0 credentials.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '403':
          description: Forbidden — insufficient permissions or quota/rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '404':
          description: Not found — the requested resource does not exist.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '429':
          description: Too many requests — rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '500':
          description: Internal error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '503':
          description: Backend error / service unavailable.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
      security:
      - OAuth2:
        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing
  /v3/urlNotifications/metadata:
    get:
      operationId: indexing_urlNotifications_getMetadata
      summary: Gets metadata about a Web Document
      description: Gets metadata about a Web Document. This method can _only_ be used to query URLs that were previously seen in successful Indexing API notifications. Includes the latest `UrlNotification` received via this API.
      tags:
      - urlNotifications
      parameters:
      - name: url
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: URL that is being queried.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlNotificationMetadata'
        '400':
          description: Bad request — invalid or improperly formed request.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized — missing or invalid OAuth 2.0 credentials.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '403':
          description: Forbidden — insufficient permissions or quota/rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '404':
          description: Not found — the requested resource does not exist.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '429':
          description: Too many requests — rate limit exceeded.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '500':
          description: Internal error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
        '503':
          description: Backend error / service unavailable.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GoogleApiError'
      security:
      - OAuth2:
        - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing
components:
  schemas:
    GoogleApiError:
      type: object
      description: Standard Google API JSON error envelope. See https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/errors
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: integer
              description: HTTP status code.
            message:
              type: string
              description: Human readable error message.
            errors:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  domain:
                    type: string
                  reason:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
                  locationType:
                    type: string
                  location:
                    type: string
    UrlNotification:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - URL_NOTIFICATION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED
          - URL_UPDATED
          - URL_DELETED
          description: The URL life cycle event that Google is being notified about.
          x-enum-descriptions:
            URL_NOTIFICATION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED: Unspecified.
            URL_UPDATED: The given URL (Web document) has been updated.
            URL_DELETED: The given URL (Web document) has been deleted.
        url:
          type: string
          description: The object of this notification. The URL must be owned by the publisher of this notification and, in case of `URL_UPDATED` notifications, it _must_ be crawlable by Google.
        notifyTime:
          type: string
          description: Creation timestamp for this notification. Users should _not_ specify it, the field is ignored at the request time.
      description: '`UrlNotification` is the resource used in all Indexing API calls. It describes one event in the life cycle of a Web Document.'
    UrlNotificationMetadata:
      type: object
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          description: URL to which this metadata refers.
        latestRemove:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlNotification'
        latestUpdate:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlNotification'
      description: Summary of the most recent Indexing API notifications successfully received, for a given URL.
    PublishUrlNotificationResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        urlNotificationMetadata:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/UrlNotificationMetadata'
      description: Output for PublishUrlNotification
  securitySchemes:
    OAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: 'Google OAuth 2.0. Authorization server metadata: https://accounts.google.com/.well-known/openid-configuration'
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth
          tokenUrl: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
          scopes:
            https://www.googleapis.com/auth/indexing: Submit data to Google for indexing