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Google News RSS

Google News provides RSS feeds that deliver news headlines organized by topic, location, and search query. The feeds expose structured XML data that can be consumed programmatically to retrieve top stories, topic-based headlines (World, Business, Technology, Sports, etc.), location-specific news, and keyword search results across multiple languages and regions.

Google News RSS publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Headlines API, Search API, and Topics API. Tagged areas include Aggregation, Google News, Headlines, Media, and News.

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

Google News RSS’s developer surface includes developer portal, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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51.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
AggregationGoogle NewsHeadlinesMediaNewsRSS

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 51.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

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

Google News RSS Headlines API

Retrieve top news headlines

Google News RSS Search API

Search for news articles

Google News RSS Topics API

Retrieve news by topic

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google News RSS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google News Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google News Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Google News Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Google News Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google News RSS API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Google News RSS API Rules

16 rules · 11 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Google News RSS Feed Schema

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Google News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google News Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google News Agentic Access

4 operations

4 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: google-news
name: Google News RSS
description: Google News provides RSS feeds that deliver news headlines organized by topic, location, and search query. The
  feeds expose structured XML data that can be consumed programmatically to retrieve top stories, topic-based headlines (World,
  Business, Technology, Sports, etc.), location-specific news, and keyword search results across multiple languages and regions.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-news.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- Aggregation
- Google News
- Headlines
- Media
- News
- RSS
apis:
- aid: google-news:google-news-headlines-api
  name: Google News RSS Headlines API
  description: Retrieve top news headlines
  humanURL: https://news.google.com
  baseURL: https://news.google.com/rss
  tags:
  - Headlines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-news-headlines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://news.google.com/rss/help
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://news.google.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-news.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-ld/google-news.jsonld
- aid: google-news:google-news-search-api
  name: Google News RSS Search API
  description: Search for news articles
  humanURL: https://news.google.com
  baseURL: https://news.google.com/rss
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-news-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://news.google.com/rss/help
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://news.google.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-news.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-ld/google-news.jsonld
- aid: google-news:google-news-topics-api
  name: Google News RSS Topics API
  description: Retrieve news by topic
  humanURL: https://news.google.com
  baseURL: https://news.google.com/rss
  tags:
  - Topics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-news-topics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://news.google.com/rss/help
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://news.google.com
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-news.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-ld/google-news.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-news-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-news-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-news-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/google-news-initiative
- type: Portal
  url: https://news.google.com
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://news.google.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://policies.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://support.google.com/news
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-news/refs/heads/main/json-ld/google-news.jsonld
- url: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/google-news-initiative/rss/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com