Use case, Google News

Google News API for your agent. One call per search.

Send a topic or a search query. Read headline and source back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.

Give this to your agent
set up looot for Google News API - https://looot.ai/use-cases/google-news-api/skill.md

The short answer

The short answer

Google News API for an agent: it sends a topic or a search query to a catalog endpoint and reads headline, source and published date back. Several providers sell the call, so the agent tries the cheapest first. You pay per call, and a failed call costs nothing.

  • Headline
  • Source
  • Published date
  • Link
  • Snippet

The job

What the Google News API gives your agent

A model cannot tell you what happened this morning. To follow a market, a competitor or a story, your agent needs the latest articles with their outlet and date. One news search returns the headlines Google News shows for a topic, as data your agent can sort, dedupe and cite.

On looot the simplest route is the job: send job:news.search with fallback on, and looot picks a provider and tries the next one on a miss. The endpoints below read Google News results through different providers. They differ in filters: a time window, a country and a language, one publisher, or an exact phrase.

You give

a topic or a search query

solid state batteries

You get

  • Headline
  • Source
  • Published date
  • Link
  • Snippet

Providers, cheapest first

What actually differs between providers

Today the price runs from $0.00099 to $0.03597 across 5 endpoints. The dearest costs about 36 times the cheapest. Price is only one difference. Each entry below says what that endpoint takes or returns that the others do not.

Sample calls

The request and what comes back

Each run is one POST to /v1/runs with an endpoint id and an input. These are illustrative calls with generic values. The run's result holds the provider's own fields.

Request
{"endpointId":"serper-news","input":{"q":"solid state batteries","gl":"us","hl":"en","tbs":"qdr:w"},"wait":30}
ResponseSample output
// POST /v1/runs, then read run.status and run.result
// result: returns title, link, snippet, date, source and image, with paging and a time filter from the last hour to the last year

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names and numbers, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost.

  • One run is one search.
  • 1 step across 5 providers.
  • Runs on demand, whenever you ask.
Prompt: Google News API
Use looot to run job:news.search with fallback on for solid state batteries in the United States, and return the headline, source, date and link of the 10 newest articles with the provider that answered. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost.

Give this to your agent
Setup command
set up looot for Google News API - https://looot.ai/use-cases/google-news-api/skill.md

Before you start

Settle these before the first run

  • Set a time window. Serper takes the last hour, day, week, month or year, and AnyAPI takes a count such as 2h or 30d. Without one, older articles can fill the page.
  • Set the country and the language when the story is local. Most endpoints take a country code and a language code, and the results change with them.
  • Pin an endpoint when you need Google News itself. With job:news.search and fallback on, looot can also answer from Brave, which searches its own index, or from NewsData.io.
  • Results are headlines and snippets, not whole articles. To read one, send its link to the URL to markdown API.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Send a query to one of the endpoints on this page, or to job:news.search with fallback on. Your agent reads the headline, source, date and link of each article from the run's result as JSON.

Yes. Serper takes a one-day time filter, AnyAPI takes 24h or 1d, and Anysite takes a period. Your agent passes the window with the query.

Yes. AnyAPI accepts site: in the query, and Anysite takes a website field for one publisher. The other endpoints search every outlet Google News shows.

Yes. Brave searches its own news index, and NewsData.io returns the newest articles from the past 48 hours. Both answer job:news.search, and the best news APIs list compares them.

Use the stock news API page. Its endpoints search by ticker or company and score how well each article matches, which a plain topic search does not do.

No. Each result is a headline, a snippet, a source, a date and a link. Your agent opens the articles it needs with the URL to markdown API.

You pay per call, and the price depends on the provider your agent picks. This page reads the cheapest live price from the catalog and shows no number when the catalog is unreachable.

No. A call that fails at the provider costs nothing, and your agent can retry it or send it to another provider.

No. One looot key reaches every provider in the catalog. You top up once, and each call is billed at the price shown before it runs.

Send a POST to /v1/runs with the endpoint id, the input and a new idempotency key, and your looot token in the Authorization header. With wait set to 30, the answer comes back in the response when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

That needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run it by hand whenever you want fresh results.

No. looot bills per call, and nothing runs while your agent is idle.
For agents
use case
Google News API
run
search
schedule
on demand
step
Search the news: serper anyapi dataforseo serpapi anysite
setup
https://looot.ai/use-cases/google-news-api/skill.md
llms.txt
https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated
2026-10-04
markdown /use-cases/google-news-api.md

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