> **For coding agents and LLMs:** This is one page from the Social Fetch docs (markdown export). For curated orientation and workflow guidance, start with [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt); for agent onboarding and crawl rules, use [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt); for the full endpoint list with links to pages like this one, use [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt); for one platform's parameters and curls, use [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt); use [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) when you need structured JSON for tool registration.

## This page

- **On-site (HTML):** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/google-news/search/get>
- **Markdown (.mdx) URL:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/google-news/search/get.mdx>

## API base URL and authentication

- **API origin (from OpenAPI `servers`):** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`
- **Authentication:** send `x-api-key: sfk_...` on `/v1/**` and `/v2/**` routes unless the operation is explicitly anonymous (check OpenAPI `security`, the [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx), [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt), or [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) for each route).
- **OpenAPI JSON:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/openapi.json>

## Recommended docs entrypoints (this site)

- [Documentation overview](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs.mdx) — top-level orientation (markdown).
- [Quickstart](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/quickstart.mdx) — authenticate with `x-api-key`, validate auth with `whoami`, and understand the JSON envelope.
- [SDK](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/sdk.mdx) — official TypeScript SDK guide, including `SocialFetchClient`, `Result`, and `unwrap()`.
- [Capability matrix](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/capability-matrix.mdx) — every operation with identifiers, pagination, outcomes, media download, credits, and its SDK method. Generated from OpenAPI, so use it for route selection instead of scanning individual pages.
- [Recipes](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/recipes.mdx) — copyable workflows (brand monitoring, transcripts, Ad Library, creator scoring, Reddit research) with credit callouts and SDK examples.
- [Integrations](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations.mdx) — MCP for AI clients, n8n verified node, Apify Store Actors, Make custom app, SDK, and REST API connection paths.
- [MCP product page](https://www.socialfetch.dev/mcp) — hosted MCP overview, OAuth, Skills install.
- [MCP integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/mcp.mdx) — hosted `/mcp` server, OAuth, Cursor/VS Code/Claude install snippets, 910 endpoint tools, plus docs_search/docs_read for implementation help.
- [n8n integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/n8n.mdx) — install `n8n-nodes-socialfetch`, credentials, and workflow examples.
- [Apify integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/apify.mdx) — Store Actors under @social-fetch, PPE billing, dataset export, and quick start.
- [Make integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/make.mdx) — custom app modules for Make scenarios, API key credentials, and module catalog.
- [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt) — every documented operation with a direct link to that route's agent-readable markdown page (prefer this over parsing OpenAPI).
- [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt) — per-platform endpoint files generated from OpenAPI (parameters, credits, curls).
- [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt) — agent crawl/onboarding file with capabilities, auth rules, and allowlist.
- [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) — structured machine-readable operation inventory with parameter names, pagination, outcomes, credits, and SDK mapping.
- [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx) — human-friendly index of operations with links into generated pages.
- [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) — shared error envelope and HTTP status guidance.
- [Credits](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx) — metering, `402`, and planning batch jobs.
- Outcome semantics such as `found`, `not_found`, and `private` are documented in [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) and on operation pages when present in the OpenAPI contract.

## Markdown docs convention

- Every docs page has a markdown twin: append **`.mdx`** to the docs pathname (for example `/docs/quickstart` → `/docs/quickstart.mdx`).
- Agents that send `Accept: text/markdown` on `/docs/**` HTML URLs may receive markdown directly (same URL, `Vary: Accept`).
- Published blog posts use the same convention: `/blog/{slug}` → `/blog/{slug}.mdx`, or `Accept: text/markdown` on the HTML URL (`Vary: Accept`).

---
# Search Google News (https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/google-news/search/get)

## Summary

Search Google News by words, operators, edition and time window, and follow the cursor into older windows.

**Tags:** `Google News`

## HTTP

- **Method:** GET
- **Path:** `/v1/google-news/search`
- **Base URL:** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`

## Capability summary

- **SDK mapping:** `client.googleNews.search({ query: "openai", language: "en-US", country: "US" })`
- **Accepted identifiers:** `query` (query)
- **Pagination:** cursor via `cursor`, next cursor: `data.page.nextCursor`, has more: `data.page.hasMore`

## Credits

- **Base:** 1 credit per successful lookup.
- **Maximum on success (200):** 1 credit.
- **Failed requests (`lookup_failed`, `503`):** not charged.
- **Authoritative field:** `meta.creditsCharged`.

## Authentication

- **`x-api-key`**: API key (`sfk_...`)

## Parameters

### `language` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 2; maxLength: 16
- **Description:** Language and locale of the edition, e.g. `en-US`, `de`, `pt-BR` or `zh-Hant`. Default: `en-US`. The 400 response for an unsupported pair lists every supported pair.

### `country` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 2; maxLength: 2
- **Description:** Two-letter country of the edition, e.g. `US`, `GB` or `JP`. Default: `US`. Send it with `language`; an unsupported pair is rejected with every supported pair listed.

### `query` (query)

- **Required:** yes
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 1; maxLength: 2000
- **Description:** Search words. Google News operators work inside it: `site:`, `intitle:`, `source:`, quotes, `OR`, `-term`. `when:`, `after:` and `before:` are set by the dedicated parameters. Control characters are removed.

### `cursor` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 1; maxLength: 16384
- **Description:** `page.nextCursor` from the previous response. It continues the same query and edition one day at a time; do not send `when`, `after` or `before` with it.

### `when` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; pattern: `^[1-9][0-9]{0,3}[hdy]$`
- **Description:** Only articles from this recent window, e.g. `1h`, `7d`, `1y`.

### `after` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; pattern: `^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$`
- **Description:** Only articles after this date, `YYYY-MM-DD`.

### `before` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; pattern: `^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}$`
- **Description:** Only articles before this date, `YYYY-MM-DD`.

## Pagination

This endpoint uses **cursor-based pagination** via the `cursor` query parameter.

- Read **hasMore** from `data.page.hasMore`.
- When that value is `true`, read **nextCursor** from `data.page.nextCursor` and pass it as the `cursor` query parameter on the **next** request (URL-encode when building a query string).
- Omit `cursor` on the **first** request.
- Stop when **hasMore** is `false` or **nextCursor** is null (end of list).

## Responses (status codes)

- **200**: A page of search results.
- **400**: Invalid request
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key
- **402**: Insufficient credits
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff.

## Response body (200)

A page of search results.

### Field outline

- **data** (required) — type `object`. Endpoint-specific response payload.
  - **query** (required) — type `string`. The search expression this page used: the request `query` plus any `when:`, `after:` or `before:` window, e.g. `openai when:1h`.
  - **title** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Title of the result set; it contains the expression this page used, e.g. `"openai when:1h" - Google News`.
  - **edition** (required) — type `object`. The edition of this result.
    - **language** (required) — type `string`. Language and locale of the edition, e.g. `en-US`.
    - **country** (required) — type `string`. Two-letter country of the edition, e.g. `US`.
  - **articles** (required) — type `array`. Articles, in Google News order.
    - _items:_
      - **id** (required) — type `string`. Article id; the same id on every route.
      - **title** (required) — type `string`. Headline as the record gives it; a trailing outlet suffix is removed when present.
      - **publishedAt** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Publication time in UTC, when the record gives one.
      - **datePrecision** (required) — type `string`; enum: second, day. `day` when the record only gives a date: midnight Pacific in the `en-US` edition. `second` otherwise.
      - **googleUrl** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Google News link; null on topic, story, publisher and headline results.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Publisher article URL. Null on search and top-stories results; use `articles/resolve` to get it.
      - **ampUrl** (required) — type `string`; nullable. AMP form of the publisher URL.
      - **image** (required) — type `object`; nullable. Article image, or null when the record has none.
      - **source** (required) — type `object`. The outlet an article is from.
      - **authors** (required) — type `array`. Authors of the article.
        - _items:_
      - **label** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Article label, e.g. `Opinion`, in the edition's language.
      - **storyId** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Full Coverage story id, the input for the story endpoint.
      - **clusterHeadline** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Short headline of the story cluster, when the record carries one.
      - **relatedArticles** (required) — type `array`. Other outlets in the same story cluster. Empty on topic, story, publisher and headline results.
        - _items:_
  - **page** (required) — type `object`. Paging state of a list.
    - **hasMore** (required) — type `boolean`. Whether another older window can be requested.
    - **nextBefore** (required) — type `string`; nullable. The next window's exclusive `before:` date, `YYYY-MM-DD`; null on the last page.
    - **nextCursor** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Opaque cursor for the next older day window; null on the last page.
    - **windowFull** (required) — type `boolean`. `true` when this page's window reached the 100-item limit, so a busier window is cut short; `false` on the ranked first page when no window was given and on windows under the ceiling.
- **meta** (required) — type `object`. Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
  - **requestId** (required) — type `string`; minLength: 1. Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
  - **creditsCharged** (required) — type `integer`; minimum: 0. Credits charged for this request.
  - **version** (required) — type `string`; enum: v1. Public API version that served the response.

### Example JSON (found)

```json
{
  "data": {
    "query": "openai",
    "title": "\"openai\" - Google News",
    "edition": {
      "language": "en-US",
      "country": "US"
    },
    "articles": [
      {
        "id": "CBMidEFVX3lxTE54bWpvVi13alRsTVY0VGFfT0dUS3JtMG4yYVZtNDhkN2lIUndZeFVvVEdwZExsNjNPeXR1aEVVZzNSZjlBS1lSdUdoeUg4RmpWc3VqcDREUzA0RGlxZ2kzaC1KYVNzX3pxTlBLSGJtUlA0LUVq",
        "title": "OpenAI investing in AI data centers despite election results, CFO says",
        "publishedAt": "2026-11-06T16:22:49.000Z",
        "datePrecision": "second",
        "googleUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE54bWpvVi13alRsTVY0VGFfT0dUS3JtMG4yYVZtNDhkN2lIUndZeFVvVEdwZExsNjNPeXR1aEVVZzNSZjlBS1lSdUdoeUg4RmpWc3VqcDREUzA0RGlxZ2kzaC1KYVNzX3pxTlBLSGJtUlA0LUVq?oc=5",
        "url": null,
        "ampUrl": null,
        "image": null,
        "source": {
          "name": "CNBC",
          "url": "https://www.cnbc.com",
          "publicationId": null,
          "iconUrl": null
        },
        "authors": [],
        "label": null,
        "storyId": null,
        "clusterHeadline": null,
        "relatedArticles": [
          {
            "id": "CBMirgFBVV95cUxNT3pvX1VfZi1WbVpNTl9weHZ0YUJ5RmhvVTgyOVRadlVyc01HeW1rdm5uRjhzMFRSSkJ4TW1yVmxHbkFvSnpTWkxWSGRIalRXM0dndmdtUXNTNTlYc0V2TGlxNTEtZm5iZDJlZXd5VUhjWUc1ejFXeTJpNHBzY2g4NllDX3dNWmo0eFBZQW1MUVR5Z2NVOUFMcENoLWZzMThDaGNXdERwWXJ6Mi1MTHc",
            "title": "OpenAI kicks off charm offensive to change voters' view of data centers",
            "googleUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirgFBVV95cUxNT3pvX1VfZi1WbVpNTl9weHZ0YUJ5RmhvVTgyOVRadlVyc01HeW1rdm5uRjhzMFRSSkJ4TW1yVmxHbkFvSnpTWkxWSGRIalRXM0dndmdtUXNTNTlYc0V2TGlxNTEtZm5iZDJlZXd5VUhjWUc1ejFXeTJpNHBzY2g4NllDX3dNWmo0eFBZQW1MUVR5Z2…",
            "source": {
              "name": "Reuters",
              "url": null,
              "publicationId": null,
              "iconUrl": null
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "page": {
      "hasMore": true,
      "nextBefore": "2026-11-08",
      "nextCursor": "z1.7VXNzmVHDXyXs_4i-d_d8xqIFWJhu-2AFGZCyCBFiHdHfYJ4B6Tvru6x3O6qcrn9r-efzxf6eP7-vX_57fnyfPu5v8Zfn4_np_j64_f4sZ8vT3_94Y9_eD6e-vb9669v1vt54v4lIPsB8QdYz8czP3379svvQf1fsP_286-_PV_g4_lH99fny58ebdlC1eoLCmyej2eJ0N7Spb2HR5-PJ2ftAtrbDu8kuvUnY8d2z4Hi…",
      "windowFull": false
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_002dfcdd-2906-43c6-91c2-1abae7adfc3f",
    "creditsCharged": 1,
    "version": "v1"
  }
}
```

### Machine-readable error codes

When an error JSON body is returned, it may include one of these `error.code` values (derived from the OpenAPI schemas for this operation; additional codes may exist at runtime):

- `bad_request`

## Error handling & retries

Interpret HTTP status codes using the descriptions below. Do not assume a JSON body unless the OpenAPI schema defines one for that status.

- **400**: Invalid request **Retry:** Fix the request; retrying the same invalid payload will not help.
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key **Retry:** Fix the API key first; retrying without changes will not help.
- **402**: Insufficient credits **Retry:** Do not retry without resolving billing/credits (retrying the same request will not help).
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed. **Retry:** May be transient; a few retries with backoff are reasonable.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff. **Retry:** Usually safe to retry with exponential backoff and jitter.

### Suggested client defaults

- Send the API key using the `x-api-key` header on every request.
- On `503` (and sometimes `502`), retry with backoff; cap retries and surface a clear error to the user.
- On `402`, surface an actionable billing message rather than blind retries.

## Examples

### TypeScript SDK

```typescript
import { SocialFetchClient } from "@socialfetch/sdk";

const client = new SocialFetchClient({
  apiKey: process.env.SOCIALFETCH_API_KEY!,
});

const result = await client.googleNews.search({
  query: "openai",
});

if (!result.ok) {
  console.error(result.error);
} else {
  console.log(result.value.data);
}
```

### Node.js

```javascript
const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/google-news/search?query=openai",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

### cURL

```bash
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/google-news/search?query=openai" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

### Python

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/google-news/search?query=openai",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()
print(data)
```

### Example: next page (pagination)

After a successful response, if pagination is not finished, request the next page using `cursor` (URL-encode when composing the query string):

```javascript
const previous = await response.json();
const nextCursor = previous?.data?.page?.nextCursor;
const hasMore = previous?.data?.page?.hasMore;
if (!hasMore || nextCursor == null) {
  // no more pages
} else {
  const nextUrl = new URL("https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/google-news/search");
  nextUrl.searchParams.set("cursor", nextCursor);
  // optionally preserve sort: nextUrl.searchParams.set("sortBy", "latest");
  const nextResponse = await fetch(nextUrl.toString(), {
    headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
  });
  const nextData = await nextResponse.json();
}
```