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Google News API in Python

News articles for a topic in a country — title, source, date, snippet, link. One POST from Python with query, rows back as JSON with 10 fields, $0.0005 per delivered article. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the google_news collector returns one dict per article, at $0.0005 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_news/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "query": "electric vehicles",
        "country": "us",
        "lang": "en",
        "max_results": 20,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("title"), row.get("link"), row.get("source"), row.get("date"))

Python: one Google News run (EV news (US)), printing title, link, source, date

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Google News collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`query`	string	yes	Topic or keywords, e.g. "electric vehicles".
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`lang`	string	no	Interface language (hl), e.g. en, it, de.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 10)	How many articles to deliver at most (1–100). You pay only for delivered articles.

Response fields

10 fields per article.

Fields of each row (article)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position across pages.
`title`	string	Headline.
`link`	string	Article URL.
`source`	string, nullable	Publisher.
`date`	string, nullable	Publish date/age as shown.
`description`	string, nullable	Snippet.
`image`	string, nullable	Thumbnail URL.
`published_at`	string, nullable	The date as an ISO 8601 timestamp (a relative label is resolved against the time of the run, rounded to the unit shown).
`domain`	string, nullable	Host of the story URL, without www.
`page`	integer	Which result page this row came from.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_news/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"query":"electric vehicles","country":"us","lang":"en","max_results":20}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.0005 per delivered article.

What Google News rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.0005
1,000	$0.50
10,000	$5.00

Up to 100 articles per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 4,000 articles. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Google News API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 4,000 articles of this collector at $0.0005 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 100 articles per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.0005 per delivered article, no subscription.

Get an API key Google News API