google-news

name	google-news
description	Google News is a free news aggregator by Google that surfaces headlines from thousands of publishers worldwide. Use this skill to fetch top stories, topic feeds, location-specific news, and keyword searches via the public Google News RSS feeds. No API key or authentication is required.
metadata	{"author":"Outsharp Inc.","version":"0.1.0"}
compatibility	{"requirements":["Internet access","Any HTTP client (curl, wget, fetch, requests, etc.)","An XML/RSS parser (or plain-text processing)"],"notes":["All endpoints are fully public — no authentication, API key, or account is needed.","Responses are RSS 2.0 XML.","Google News may rate-limit aggressive polling; use reasonable intervals (≥ 60 s).","Article links redirect through Google; the final destination is the publisher's page.","Feed contents are region- and language-specific; set `hl`, `gl`, and `ceid` accordingly."]}
allowed-tools	["Bash(curl:*)","Bash(wget:*)","Bash(python*:*)","Bash(pip*:*)","Bash(node*:*)","Bash(npx*:*)","Bash(jq:*)","Bash(xmllint:*)"]

Google News RSS API

Google News is a free news aggregator that collects headlines from thousands of publishers around the world. Google exposes its feeds via public RSS 2.0 endpoints that require no authentication or API key.

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Base URL

https://news.google.com/rss

All feed URLs are built by appending paths and query parameters to this base.

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Query Parameters

Every feed URL accepts the following query parameters to control region and language:

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
hl	Yes	Interface language / locale code	en-US, fr, de, ja, pt-BR, es-419
gl	Yes	Country / geographic location (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)	US, GB, IN, DE, JP, BR
ceid	Yes	Compound locale key in the form {gl}:{language}	US:en, GB:en, DE:de, JP:ja, BR:pt-419

Important: All three parameters should be consistent. Mismatched values may return unexpected or empty results.

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Supported Locations (Validated)

The following locations have been tested and confirmed to return valid RSS feeds (HTTP 200):

Location	hl	gl	ceid	Example URL
🇺🇸 United States	en-US	US	US:en	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
🇬🇧 United Kingdom	en-GB	GB	GB:en	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en
🇮🇳 India	en-IN	IN	IN:en	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN:en
🇦🇺 Australia	en-AU	AU	AU:en	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU:en
🇨🇦 Canada	en-CA	CA	CA:en	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA:en
🇩🇪 Germany	de	DE	DE:de	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE:de
🇫🇷 France	fr	FR	FR:fr	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=fr&gl=FR&ceid=FR:fr
🇯🇵 Japan	ja	JP	JP:ja	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=ja&gl=JP&ceid=JP:ja
🇧🇷 Brazil	pt-BR	BR	BR:pt-419	https://news.google.com/rss?hl=pt-BR&gl=BR&ceid=BR:pt-419
🇲🇽 Mexico

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Feed Types

1. Top Stories (Headlines)

Returns the current top stories for a given location.

URL pattern:

https://news.google.com/rss?hl={hl}&gl={gl}&ceid={gl}:{lang}

Example — US top stories:

https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

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2. Topic Feeds

Returns articles for a specific news topic / section.

URL pattern:

https://news.google.com/rss/topics/{TOPIC_ID}?hl={hl}&gl={gl}&ceid={gl}:{lang}

Known Topic IDs (English, US):

Topic	Topic ID
World	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGx1YlY4U0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Nation / U.S.	CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNRGxqTjNjU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ
Business	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGx6TVdZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Technology	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGRqTVhZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Entertainment	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNREpxYW5RU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Sports	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRFp1ZEdvU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Science	CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRFp0Y1RjU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB
Health	CAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNR3QwTlRFU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ

Example — Technology news (US):

https://news.google.com/rss/topics/CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGRqTVhZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

Note: Topic IDs are base64-encoded protocol buffer strings. They can differ by language/region. The IDs above are for en-US. To find topic IDs for other locales, inspect the RSS link on the Google News website for that locale.

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3. Keyword / Search Feeds

Returns articles matching a search query.

URL pattern:

https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl={hl}&gl={gl}&ceid={gl}:{lang}

Query modifiers:

Modifier	Description	Example
+ or space	AND (default)	q=artificial+intelligence
OR	OR operator	q=Tesla+OR+SpaceX
-	Exclude term	q=Apple+-fruit
"..."	Exact phrase (URL-encode the quotes)	q=%22climate+change%22
when:7d	Time filter — last N days/hours	q=Bitcoin+when:7d
when:1h	Time filter — last 1 hour	q=breaking+news+when:1h
after:YYYY-MM-DD	Articles after a date	q=Olympics+after:2024-07-01
before:YYYY-MM-DD	Articles before a date	q=Olympics+before:2024-08-15
site:	Restrict to a domain	q=AI+site:reuters.com

Example — search for "artificial intelligence" in the last 7 days:

https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=artificial+intelligence+when:7d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

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RSS Response Format

All feeds return RSS 2.0 XML. Here is the general structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <generator>NFE/5.0</generator>
    <title>Top stories - Google News</title>
    <link>https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en</link>
    <language>en-US</language>
    <webMaster>[e-mail]</webMaster>
    <copyright>...</copyright>
    <lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:50:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <item>
      <title>Article headline - Publisher Name</title>
      <link>https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...</guid>
      <>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:05:07 GMT
      
        
        
          Article TitlePublisher
          ...
        
      
      Publisher Name
    
    
  

Key Fields per <item>

Field	Description
<title>	Headline text followed by - Publisher Name
<link>	Google News redirect URL. Visiting it in a browser redirects to the actual article.
<guid>	Unique identifier (same as <link>)
<pubDate>	Publication date in RFC 2822 format
<description>	HTML snippet containing an ordered list (<ol>) of related/clustered articles with links and publisher names
<source url="...">	Publisher name and homepage URL

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Common Patterns

Fetch Top Headlines (curl + grep)

curl -s "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en" \
  | grep -oP '<title>\K[^<]+'

Fetch Top Headlines (Python)

import feedparser

feed = feedparser.parse(
    "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en"
)

for entry in feed.entries:
    print(f"{entry.published} — {entry.title}")
    print(f"  Link: {entry.link}")
    print()

Fetch Topic Feed (curl + xmllint)

TOPIC="CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGRqTVhZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB"
curl -s "https://news.google.com/rss/topics/${TOPIC}?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en" \
  | xmllint --xpath '//item/title/text()' -

Search for Articles (Python)

import feedparser
import urllib.parse

query = urllib.parse.quote("artificial intelligence when:7d")
url = f"https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={query}&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en"

feed = feedparser.parse(url)
for entry in feed.entries[:10]:
    print(f"• {entry.title}")

Fetch News for a Specific Location (Node.js)

const https = require("https");
const { parseStringPromise } = require("xml2js");

const url =
  "https://news.google.com/rss?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en";

https.get(url, (res) => {
  let data = "";
  res.on("data", (chunk) => (data += chunk));
  res.on("end", async () => {
    const result = await parseStringPromise(data);
    const items = result.rss.channel[0].item || [];
    items.slice(0, 10).forEach((item) => {
      console.log(item.title[0]);
    });
  });
});

Extract Related Articles from Description (Python)

import feedparser
from html.parser import HTMLParser

class RelatedParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.articles = []
        self._in_a = False
        self._href = ""
        self._text = ""

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == "a":
            self._in_a = True
            self._href = dict(attrs).get("href", "")
            self._text = ""

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag == "a" and self._in_a:
            self.articles.append({"title": self._text, "link": self._href})
            self._in_a = False

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self._in_a:
            ._text += data

feed = feedparser.parse(
    
)

 entry  feed.entries[:]:
    ()
    parser = RelatedParser()
    parser.feed(entry.description)
     art  parser.articles:
        ()
        ()

Build a Multi-Region News Aggregator (Python)

import feedparser

REGIONS = {
    "US":  "hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
    "UK":  "hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en",
    "DE":  "hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE:de",
    "JP":  "hl=ja&gl=JP&ceid=JP:ja",
    "BR":  "hl=pt-BR&gl=BR&ceid=BR:pt-419",
}

for region, params in REGIONS.items():
    feed = feedparser.parse(f"https://news.google.com/rss?{params}")
    print(f"\n--- {region} Top 3 ---")
    for entry in feed.entries[:3]:
        print(f"  • {entry.title}")

Monitor a Topic with Polling (bash)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
FEED="https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=breaking+news+when:1h&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en"
SEEN_FILE="/tmp/gnews_seen.txt"
touch "$SEEN_FILE"

while true; do
  curl -s "$FEED" | grep -oP '<guid[^>]*>\K[^<]+' | while read -r guid; do
    if ! grep -qF "$guid" "$SEEN_FILE"; then
      echo "$guid" >> "$SEEN_FILE"
      TITLE=$(curl -s "$FEED" | grep -oP "<item>.*?<guid[^>]*>${guid}.*?</item>" \
        | grep -oP '<title>\K[^<]+' | head -1)
      echo "[NEW] $TITLE"
    fi
  done
  sleep 120
done

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Resolving Google News Redirect URLs

Article links in the RSS feed point to https://news.google.com/rss/articles/... which redirect (HTTP 302/303) to the actual publisher URL. To resolve the final URL:

curl

curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}' \
  "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFV..."

Python

import requests

response = requests.head(
    "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiWkFV...",
    allow_redirects=True,
    timeout=10,
)
print(response.url)  # final publisher URL

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Rate Limits

Google does not publish official rate limits for the RSS feeds. Based on community observations:

Guideline	Recommendation
Polling interval	≥ 60 seconds between requests for the same feed
Concurrent requests	Keep below ~10 concurrent connections
Burst behavior	Rapid bursts may trigger HTTP 429 or CAPTCHA challenges
User-Agent	Use a descriptive User-Agent; empty or bot-like strings may be blocked

If you receive an HTTP 429 response, back off exponentially (e.g., 1 min → 2 min → 4 min).

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Error Handling

HTTP Status	Meaning	Action
200	Success	Parse the RSS XML
301/302	Redirect	Follow the redirect (most HTTP clients do this automatically)
404	Feed not found	Check the URL, topic ID, or locale parameters
429	Rate limited	Back off and retry after a delay
5xx	Server error	Retry with exponential backoff

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Tips

• No auth needed — all feeds are fully public. Start fetching immediately.
• Use feedparser in Python — it handles RSS parsing, date normalization, and encoding edge cases.
• Combine search modifiers — q=Tesla+site:reuters.com+when:30d for precise results.
• Topic IDs are locale-specific — an English topic ID may not work with hl=de. Inspect the Google News page in that locale to find the correct ID.
• The <description> field is HTML — it contains clustered/related articles as an <ol> list. Parse the HTML to extract multiple sources per story.
• The <title> includes the publisher — the format is Headline text - Publisher Name. Split on - (space-dash-space) from the right to separate them.
• Feed results are limited — Google typically returns ~100 items per feed. Use search with date filters to paginate through older results.
• Respect the copyright notice — Google's RSS feeds are intended for personal, non-commercial use in feed readers. Review Google's terms for other uses.
• Resolve redirects lazily — only resolve the Google redirect URL to the publisher URL when you actually need the final link. This saves requests.
• Set a proper User-Agent — e.g., User-Agent: MyNewsBot/1.0 ([e-mail]). Some environments may get blocked without one.

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Changelog

• 0.1.0 — Initial release with top stories, topic feeds, search feeds, multi-region support, and common usage patterns.