# Google News Search

> Google News Search is a paid API for AI agents from agent.chiemgaufilms.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Returns the top 10 Google News results for a keyword, including headline, source, URL, snippet, and publish time via DataForSEO SERP.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent.chiemgaufilms.com/api/v1/news-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-b1dccd44
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_EUuFlB1ySIjVy_jYKrs8w

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 google-news-search-b1dccd44 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the top Google News results for 'autonomous vehicles' in the United States right now — I want the headlines, sources, and when each article was published?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, machine-readable Google News results with publish timestamps and source attribution for a specific keyword, country, and language. It is ideal for news monitoring, brand tracking, competitive intelligence, or content research workflows where you need the top 10 current results from Google News with metadata. Prefer this over a generic web scraper when you need reliable, pre-parsed news data with consistent schema and location/language targeting.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country/language pair returns an error before payment is charged
- Keyword exceeds 80 characters returns a validation error
- Search operators (site:, intitle:, quotes, exclusions) in keyword are not supported and will be rejected
- Invalid location_code or language_code pattern causes request rejection
- No news results available for niche keyword may return empty results array
- Service may return stale results if news indexing is delayed

## How this service works

Top 10 Google News results for a keyword: headline, source, URL, snippet and publish time (DataForSEO SERP Google News Live). Use it for current coverage of a topic; use google_serp for regular web results.

## Output

A JSON object containing the search keyword, language code, location code, and an array of up to 10 news results. Each result includes position (1–10), article title/headline, source domain, full URL, a short snippet excerpt, a human-readable published time (e.g. '8 hours ago'), and an ISO-formatted published_at timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "keyword": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 80,
   "minLength": 1
  },
  "language_code": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "location_code": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 2840,
   "maximum": 99999999,
   "minimum": 1000
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "keyword": "electric cars",
  "results": [
   {
    "url": "https://www.example.com/news/electric-cars",
    "title": "Example headline about electric cars",
    "source": "www.example.com",
    "snippet": "A short excerpt of the article ...",
    "position": 1,
    "published": "8 hours ago",
    "published_at": "2026-10-20 04:22:30 +00:00"
   }
  ],
  "language_code": "en",
  "location_code": 2840
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/google-news-search-b1dccd44/health.json
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