google_news_v2
Retrieve Google News results with image URLs and accurate ISO dates. Search by query, topic token, publication token, or section token to find relevant news.
Instructions
Faster Google News endpoint (v2) that returns image URLs instead of base64 and actual ISO dates instead of relative durations. Supports browsing by topic, publication, or section tokens instead of a free-text query. [Credits: Not explicitly stated on this documentation page.] Notes: The docs reference a 'story_token' concept (used to restrict/sort story clusters via the so parameter, and excluded from combination with query/topic_token/publication_token) but do not provide a dedicated parameter entry or example for it - treat as undocumented/ambiguous and confirm with ScrapingDog support before relying on it. topic_token, publication_token, and query are mutually exclusive top-level ways to select content; section_token narrows a topic_token/publication_token further. No page/results pagination parameter is documented for this v2 endpoint. Returns: { news_results: [ { title, link, thumbnail, source, authors: [string], date (ISO 8601), rank } ] }
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| so | No | Sorting method: 0 = Relevance (default), 1 = Date. Can only be used with story_token. (default: 0) | |
| query | No | A standard Google News search query; supports operators like site: or when:. Cannot be used together with publication_token, story_token, or topic_token. | |
| country | No | Two-letter country code for the Google search, e.g. us, uk, fr. See Google Country Parameter docs. (default: us) | |
| language | No | Language of the results, e.g. en, es, fr, de. See Google Language Page. (default: en) | |
| topic_token | No | Google News topic token to get results for a particular topic (e.g. World, Business, Technology). Cannot be used with query, story_token, or publication_token. | |
| section_token | No | Google News section token to access a subsection of a specific topic (e.g. Business -> Economy). Can only be used together with topic_token or publication_token. | |
| publication_token | No | Google News publication token to get results from a specific publisher (e.g. CNN, BBC, The Guardian). Cannot be used with query, story_token, or topic_token. |