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5.8K downloads. Trust evidence available

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Google News API

A Google News API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no RSS scraping. Use when the user wants keyword search across Google News scoped to a language edition, section headlines (world, business, technology, entertainment, sport, science, health, or a specific topic ID), the latest headlines, a list of supported language-region codes, or to decode a Google News redirect URL into the real article URL. Also covers news monitoring, headline aggregation, media tracking, and press-mention alerts without scraping Google News' RSS feeds directly.

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Rank

Safety

Downloads

5.8k

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Version

0.1.0

Source

CLAWHUB

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. 5.8K downloads reported by the source. Last updated 10/9/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

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Vendor: Clawhubvendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Protocol compatibility: OpenClawcompatibility · observed Oct 9, 2026
Adoption signal: 5.8K downloadsadoption · observed Oct 9, 2026
Latest release: 0.1.0release · observed Aug 21, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

clawhub skill install s17dcnrbn2f5qhk65dscfdycw98cw0kk:google-news

Install using `clawhub skill install s17dcnrbn2f5qhk65dscfdycw98cw0kk:google-news` in an isolated environment before connecting it to live workloads.
No published capability contract is available yet, so validate auth and request/response behavior manually.
Review the upstream CLAWHUB listing at https://clawhub.ai/fetcher-sh/google-news before using production credentials.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/clawhub-fetcher-sh-google-news/snapshot"

Documentation

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Extracted files

3 files captured from the source.

SKILL.md

---
name: google-news
description: >-
  A Google News API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC via
  x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no RSS scraping. Use when the
  user wants keyword search across Google News scoped to a language edition,
  section headlines (world, business, technology, entertainment, sport,
  science, health, or a specific topic ID), the latest headlines, a list of
  supported language-region codes, or to decode a Google News redirect URL
  into the real article URL. Also covers news monitoring, headline
  aggregation, media tracking, and press-mention alerts without scraping
  Google News' RSS feeds directly.
keywords:
  - google-news
  - google-news-api
  - news-api-alternative
  - headline-monitoring
  - media-monitoring
  - x402
  - ai-agent
---

# Google News API

Google News headlines and search as clean JSON — one plain HTTP GET per call,
paid as you go. No RSS feed scraping, no redirect-URL decoding by hand, no
undocumented internal endpoints.

Base URL: `https://google-news.fetcher.sh`

## Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the [`fetcher`
skill](../fetcher/SKILL.md):

```bash
# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://google-news.fetcher.sh/api/search?keyword=hello&languageCode=en-US"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.
```

Every response is `{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }`; the
HTTP status mirrors `status`.

## Endpoints (12 — all GET, $0.005/call)

| Endpoint | What it returns |
| --- | --- |
| `/api/search` | Headlines matching a keyword, in one language edition |
| `/api/latest` | Latest headlines |
| `/api/world` | World section headlines |
| `/api/business` | Business section headlines |
| `/api/technology` | Technology section headlines |
| `/api/entertainment` | Entertainment section headlines |
| `/api/sport` | Sport section headlines |
| `/api/science` | Science section headlines |
| `/api/health` | Health section headlines |
| `/api/topic/{topicId}` | Headlines for an arbitrary topic ID |
| `/api/language-regions` | Every supported `languageCode` value |
| `/api/decode-article-url` | Resolves a Google News redirect URL to the real article URL |

`languageCode` (e.g. `en-US`, `en-GB`, `fr-FR`) is **required on every
endpoint except `/api/language-regions`**, which takes no parameters at all
and exists specifically to list the valid values. `keyword` is additionally
required on `/api/search`; `url` is required on `/api/decode-article-url`.

## Scenarios

**Keyword search, US English edition:**

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY"

_meta.json

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  "slug": "google-news",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "publishedAt": 1787304636810
}

skill-card.md

## Description:

Google News API helps agents retrieve Google News search results, latest and section headlines, language-region codes, topic headlines, and decoded article URLs through fetcher.sh.

This skill is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.

## Publisher:

[fetcher-sh](https://clawhub.ai/user/fetcher-sh)

### License/Terms of Use:

MIT-0

## Use Case:

External developers and agent builders use this skill to integrate paid Google News search, headline retrieval, topic lookup, language-region discovery, and redirect decoding into news monitoring, aggregation, media tracking, and press mention workflows.

### Deployment Geography for Use:

Global

## Known Risks and Mitigations:

Risk: Queries and Google News redirect URLs are sent to fetcher.sh as part of normal API use.

Mitigation: Avoid private, account-specific, or sensitive URLs and confidential query terms; review the third-party service fit before using it for sensitive monitoring.

Risk: The skill uses a paid third-party API and may require a FETCHER_API_KEY or x402 payment flow.

Mitigation: Confirm that paid API use is acceptable for the deployment, and store FETCHER_API_KEY in normal secret or configuration storage rather than hardcoding it in shared files.

## Reference(s):

- [ClawHub skill page](https://clawhub.ai/fetcher-sh/skills/google-news)
- [Server-resolved GitHub source](https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/main/skills/google-news)
- [Full agent setup](https://google-news.fetcher.sh/skill.md)
- [OpenAPI 3.1 contract](https://google-news.fetcher.sh/openapi.json)
- [Condensed catalog](https://google-news.fetcher.sh/llms.txt)
- [Service site](https://google-news.fetcher.sh)

## Skill Output:

**Output Type(s):** [text, markdown, shell commands, configuration, guidance]

**Output Format:** [Markdown guidance with HTTP endpoint examples, curl commands, and MCP configuration JSON.]

**Output Parameters:** [1D]

**Other Properties Related to Output:** [May produce paid external API requests to fetcher.sh when an agent executes the documented calls.]

## Skill Version(s):

0.1.0 (source: release evidence)

## Ethical Considerations:

Users should evaluate whether this skill is appropriate for their environment, review any generated or modified files before relying on them, and apply their organization's safety, security, and compliance requirements before deployment.

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