GNews API
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What is GNews API
GNews API is a web API that provides programmatic access to news articles and headlines aggregated from Google News results. It is used by developers and analysts to search and retrieve news by keyword, language, country, and time range for applications such as monitoring, alerting, and content enrichment. The service focuses on lightweight news search and article metadata delivery rather than full web crawling or large-scale dataset licensing.
Simple news search interface
The API centers on keyword-based news search with common filters such as language, country, and date/time constraints. This makes it straightforward to integrate into dashboards, alerts, and enrichment pipelines. For teams that only need news discovery and links/metadata, it can reduce the need to build and maintain custom scraping logic.
Developer-friendly JSON responses
Responses are delivered via a typical REST-style interface and returned in JSON, which fits common application stacks. This supports quick prototyping and integration into ETL jobs, serverless functions, and internal tools. The focus on a narrow set of endpoints can lower implementation complexity compared with broader web data platforms.
Multi-locale query filtering
GNews API supports querying across different locales through language and country parameters. This helps users build region-specific monitoring and compare coverage across markets. It is useful for organizations that need basic internationalization without managing multiple source-specific integrations.
Aggregation dependency on Google News
Because results are derived from Google News aggregation, coverage and ranking can change without notice. This can affect reproducibility of searches and long-term consistency of monitoring outputs. Organizations needing stable, source-controlled datasets may require additional sourcing or archiving.
Limited enrichment and analytics
The product primarily returns search results and article metadata rather than deeper NLP enrichment (e.g., entity extraction, sentiment, clustering) as a core capability. Teams that need structured intelligence outputs often must add separate processing components. This increases total system complexity for advanced use cases.
Unclear enterprise governance details
Publicly available information on enterprise features such as formal SLAs, compliance attestations, and data retention controls is limited compared with larger web data providers. This can be a constraint for regulated industries or mission-critical deployments. Buyers may need to validate support, uptime commitments, and permissible use during procurement.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | €0 per month | 100 requests/day; up to 10 articles per request; 12-hour data delay; 30 days historical data; CORS enabled for localhost; access to all sources; for development/testing/non-commercial use only. |
| Essential | €49.99 per month (monthly) / €39.99 per month (€479.99 billed annually) | 1,000 requests/day; up to 25 articles per request; real-time article availability; historical data from 2020; CORS enabled for all origins; access to all sources; email support; full content; includes 10-day free trial for paid features. |
| Business | €99.99 per month (monthly) / €79.99 per month (€959.99 billed annually) | 5,000 requests/day; up to 50 articles per request; real-time article availability; historical data from 2020; CORS enabled for all origins; access to all sources; email support; full content; includes 10-day free trial for paid features. |
| Enterprise | €249.99 per month (monthly) / €199.99 per month (€2,399.99 billed annually) | 25,000 requests/day; up to 100 articles per request; real-time article availability; historical data from 2020; CORS enabled for all origins; access to all sources; premium email support; full content; includes 10-day free trial for paid features. |
| Custom / Create Your Own Plan | Contact for pricing | Custom number of requests/day and requests/second, custom articles per request, customizable support level and features; contact sales (contact@gnews.io). |
