# serp402 Google News Light API

> serp402 Google News Light API is a paid API for AI agents from serp402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).

Fetches structured Google News search results including title, snippet, source, date, and link for a given query

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://serp402.com/api/v1/google-news-light?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-31
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/serp402-google-news-light-api-c23b12f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9SMVopvPFKqdJafDPfFqU

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 serp402-google-news-light-api-c23b12f0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Google News for the latest articles about 'OpenAI GPT-5' in the US (gl=us), in English (hl=en), and give me the titles, sources, dates, and links as structured JSON.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need fast, structured Google News results without managing API keys, subscriptions, or accounts. It is ideal for AI agents that need pay-per-call access to news data at low cost ($0.05 USDC), especially when results must be filtered by country, language, or device type. Prefer it over general web search APIs when the use case is specifically news article discovery or monitoring.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing query parameter returns an error response
- Unsupported country code (gl) or language code (hl) may return empty or unexpected results
- Pagination offset (start) beyond available results returns empty result set
- Rate limiting or payment failure (insufficient USDC) blocks the request
- Query for very obscure topics may return few or no results
- Safe search filtering may suppress certain results unexpectedly

## How this service works

Google News Light: Access the world's fastest Google News API. Title, snippet, source, date, link and more. Structured JSON, USD 0.05 per call in USDC — no API key, no account, no subscription, no minimum. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or an official channel of any of the services the results come from. All trademarks and copyright remain the property of their respective owners.

## Output

Returns a structured JSON array of Google News search results, each containing the article title, snippet/summary, source name, publication date, article URL, and potentially thumbnail or additional metadata, all formatted for easy programmatic consumption.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "q": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "gl": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "country to use for the Google search. It's a two-letter country code. (e.g., us for the United States, uk for United Kingdom, or fr for France). Head to the…"
  },
  "hl": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "language to use for the Google search. It's a two or three-letter language code. (e.g., en for English, es for Spanish, or fr for French), optionally followed…"
  },
  "lr": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "one or multiple languages to limit the search to. It uses lang_{two-letter language code} to specify languages and as a delimiter. (e.g., lang_fr lang_de will…"
  },
  "nfpr": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "exclusion of results from an auto-corrected query when the original query is spelled wrong. It can be set to 1 to exclude these results, or 0 to include them…"
  },
  "safe": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "level of filtering for adult content. It can be set to active or off , by default Google will blur explicit content."
  },
  "uule": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Parameter is the Google encoded location you want to use for the search. uule and location parameters can't be used together. For consistent results with…"
  },
  "start": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "result offset. It skips the given number of results. It's used for pagination. (e.g., 0 (default) is the first page of results, 10 is the 2nd page of results,…"
  },
  "device": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "device to use to get the results. It can be set to desktop (default) to use a regular browser, tablet to use a tablet browser (currently using iPads), or…"
  },
  "filter": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "if the filters for 'Similar Results' and 'Omitted Results' are on or off. It can be set to 1 (default) to enable these filters, or 0 to disable these filters."
  },
  "location": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "from where you want the search to originate. If several locations match the location requested, we'll pick the most popular one. Head to the /locations.json…"
  },
  "google_domain": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Google domain to use. It defaults to google.com . Head to the Google domains page for a full list of supported Google domains."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/serp402-google-news-light-api-c23b12f0/health.json
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