Google Indexing

The Google Indexing API lets a site owner tell Google directly when a page has been added, updated, or removed, instead of waiting for a crawl. It is a two-operation API — publish a URL notification, and read back the latest notification metadata for a URL. Google restricts its use to pages carrying JobPosting structured data, or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject. It is free of charge, capped by default at 200 publish requests per day per Google Cloud project, and gated on Search Console ownership verification rather than on price.

Google Indexing publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: urlNotifications API and urlNotifications:publish API. Tagged areas include Crawling, Google, Indexing, Search, and SEO.

The Google Indexing catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Indexing’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, support, API reference, pricing, and 31 more developer resources.

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Crawling Google Indexing Search SEO URLs

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Composite quality — 65.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 17.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 14.6 / 20

Access Clarity 13.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 9.9 / 13

Contract Governance 3.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Indexing Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Indexing Scopes

1 scope · jwt-bearer/authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

SpectralRules

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Security

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Support

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Plans

FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-indexing
name: Google Indexing
description: The Google Indexing API lets a site owner tell Google directly when a page has been added, updated, or removed,
  instead of waiting for a crawl. It is a two-operation API — publish a URL notification, and read back the latest notification
  metadata for a URL. Google restricts its use to pages carrying JobPosting structured data, or BroadcastEvent embedded in
  a VideoObject. It is free of charge, capped by default at 200 publish requests per day per Google Cloud project, and gated
  on Search Console ownership verification rather than on price.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup, eligibility-gated
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: searched
  note: Corrected from `freemium` on 2026-08-13. Google's quota and pricing page states "All use of the Indexing API is available
    without payment." There are no paid tiers. The real gate is content eligibility plus Search Console delegated site ownership,
    not a paywall.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-indexing.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-indexing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Crawling
- Google
- Indexing
- Search
- SEO
- URLs
apis:
- aid: google-indexing:google-indexing-urlnotifications-api
  name: Google Indexing urlNotifications API
  description: The urlNotifications API from Google Indexing — 1 operation(s) for urlnotifications.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
  baseURL: https://indexing.googleapis.com/v3
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - urlNotifications
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-indexing-urlnotifications-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DiscoveryDocument
    url: openapi/_original/google-indexing-discovery-v3.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-indexing-urlnotifications-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/reference/indexing/rest/v3/urlNotifications
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/prereqs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/UrlNotification.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/google-indexing-spectral-rules.yml
- aid: google-indexing:google-indexing-urlnotifications-publish-api
  name: Google Indexing urlNotifications:publish API
  description: The urlNotifications:publish API from Google Indexing — 1 operation(s) for urlnotifications:publish.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
  baseURL: https://indexing.googleapis.com/v3
  tags:
  - urlNotifications:publish
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-indexing-urlnotifications-publish-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DiscoveryDocument
    url: openapi/_original/google-indexing-discovery-v3.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-indexing-urlnotifications-publish-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/reference/indexing/rest/v3/urlNotifications
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/prereqs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/UrlNotification.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/google-indexing-spectral-rules.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-indexing/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-indexing-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-indexing-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-indexing-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-indexing-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-indexing-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/prereqs
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.search.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/community
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/context.jsonld
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/reference/indexing/rest/v3/urlNotifications
- type: Pricing
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quota-pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/indexing.googleapis.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googleapis
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/google-indexing-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/google-indexing-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/google-indexing-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/google-indexing-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/google-indexing-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/google-indexing-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/google-indexing-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/google-indexing-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/google-indexing-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/google-indexing-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/google-indexing-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/google-indexing-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/google-indexing-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-indexing-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-indexing-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-indexing-finops.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/google-indexing-spectral-rules.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Google Indexing

APIs 2

Postman Collections 2

Open Collections 4

Pricing Plans 1