# fetcher.sh Google News Article URL Decoder

> fetcher.sh Google News Article URL Decoder is a paid API for AI agents from fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Decodes and resolves obfuscated Google News article redirect URLs to retrieve the actual destination article URL

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fetcher.sh/api/google-news/decode-article-url
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-google-news-article-url-decoder-124b152e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_66zpEtPgkFn4f9bLrVhJl

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fetcher-sh-google-news-article-url-decoder-124b152e
```

Example prompt: Can you decode this Google News article URL for me and give me the actual link to the original article? Here's the URL: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy9hcnRpY2xlLzEyMzQ1...

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you have Google News article URLs (from RSS feeds, Google News search results, or scraped Google News pages) and need the actual publisher URL rather than the Google redirect. Essential for building news aggregators, monitoring pipelines, or any workflow that requires canonical article URLs for deduplication, storage, or further scraping.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed Google News URL returns an error
- Expired or deleted Google News links may fail to resolve
- Network timeout if Google's redirect service is slow
- Non-Google-News URLs passed as input will return an error

## How this service works

fetcher.sh is an x402 web-data and scraping API: 111 endpoints for Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Google, App Store, and Yelp — paid per call in USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana, or with prepaid credits. Built for AI agents: no accounts, no OAuth, no subscriptions.

## Output

Returns the decoded, canonical URL of the actual news article that the Google News redirect points to — bypassing Google's URL obfuscation layer to give the real source article link

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fetcher-sh-google-news-article-url-decoder-124b152e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from fetcher.sh](https://www.zero.xyz/host/fetcher.sh/llms.txt)