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Google News API via fetcher.sh — Health Check
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Google News API via fetcher.sh — Health Check is a paid API for AI agents from google-news.fetcher.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Health check endpoint that verifies the Google News API service on fetcher.sh is operational and accepting requests
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Google News (headlines) data and scraping API: Headlines by section (world, business, technology, ...), keyword search, topics, and article URL decoding. 12 REST endpoints from $0.005 per call — no account, no OAuth, no subscription. Pay with x402 (USDC on Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad or Solana) or prepaid credits.
Output
A simple health status response indicating whether the Google News API service on fetcher.sh is operational, typically returning a status code and/or JSON payload confirming service availability.
Example use cases
Pre-flight API availability check
“Check if the fetcher.sh Google News API is up and running before I kick off my news aggregation workflow.”
Monitoring news API uptime
“Ping the fetcher.sh Google News health endpoint every few minutes and let me know if it goes down.”
Debugging failed news requests
“I'm getting errors fetching Google News headlines from fetcher.sh — can you hit the health endpoint and tell me if the service is even responding?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://google-news.fetcher.sh/api/healthWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint as a lightweight pre-flight check before making paid API calls to the Google News fetcher.sh service. Prefer this over calling data endpoints when you simply need to verify service availability without incurring costs for news data retrieval.
Side effects
- Service downtime returns 503 or connection refused
- Rate limiting or payment issues may return 402 even on health endpoint
- Timeout if the service is overloaded or unreachable
- Unexpected 500 error if internal service components are failing
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| required | string | |
| properties | string |
Tags
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