# Google News RSS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/google-news/  
**Website:** https://news.google.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 38.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 58.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.1 |
| Access Clarity | 57.1 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Google News Agentic Access** — 4 operations

## Security (2)

- **Google News Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Google News Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Google News Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Aggregation, Google News, Headlines, Media, News, RSS

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/google-news/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.