# BrowserAct, free: News API

> Extract structured news data from Google News with a single API call. Filter by time range and keywords. Built for monitoring and automation.

BrowserAct's news API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. BrowserAct's docs list 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author.
We haven't run BrowserAct through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 805 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Alpaca's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/alpaca/99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Alpaca's $99 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Alpaca's rate limit allows.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Alpaca's $99 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/free
- [News API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.browseract.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.browseract.com/v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.browseract.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.browseract.com/workflow/api-reference/tasks/run-an-official-bot-template-create-a-task?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: BrowserAct (https://www.browseract.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Amazon ASIN Lookup API · Amazon Product API · Google Maps API · Run a bot (create a task)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract structured news data from Google News with a single API call. Filter by time range and keywords. Built for monitoring and automation.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose only. [...] The Service may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us. As a user of the Service, you agree not to: Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Service to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us. [...] Use the Service to crawl websites in violation of their Terms of Service, robot exclusion protocols, or applicable laws.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 200 credits

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: template_id "77638424152140851", input.Search_Keywords, input.Publish_date, input.Datelimit. Optional: proxy_region, callback_url, status_change_callback_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result source, news result title, news result date, news result authors, news result link

## BrowserAct's plans (8)

- [BrowserAct, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/29-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $70 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/70-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $120 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/120-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/276-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $672 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/672-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, $1,152 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/1152-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete, live
- [BrowserAct, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete, live

## BrowserAct's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v3/bots/templates/{template_id}/runs`: [BrowserAct, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt)

## BrowserAct's APIs (4)

- [BrowserAct: Amazon product API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt)
- [BrowserAct: Amazon search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-search-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt)
- [BrowserAct: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt)
- [BrowserAct: Local business search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/browseract/free/llms.txt)

## BrowserAct: news API alternatives

- [Scrappa, free, GET /api/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ReefAPI, free, POST /news-intel/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/free-post-news-intel-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeUnblocker, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.browseract.com/account-billing/billing/billing-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.browseract.com/account-billing/billing/subscription-management?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.browseract.com/openapi_3.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://docs.browseract.com/workflow/api-reference/tasks/run-an-official-bot-template-create-a-task?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.browseract.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.browseract.com/data-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.browseract.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.browseract.com/template/google-news-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://www.browseract.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing