# FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime: News API

> Retrieve Google News articles with headlines, source publications, links and publication dates. Filter by country, language and date range.

FlashData's news API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
We rank 354 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt), [SerpBase](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/100-monthly/llms.txt) and [treg](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://data.flashdata.dev/v1/queries/realtime`
- API key: with the plan, on https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_news
- Sold by: FlashData (https://flashdata.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 67%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search API · Google Images API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Search API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · Google News API (Async) · Google News API (Batch)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve Google News articles with headlines, source publications, links and publication dates. Filter by country, language and date range.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "FlashData grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to access and use the Service for your internal or customer-facing business purposes during the applicable subscription, trial, or PAYG entitlement." "This license permits you to use Results only to the extent you have a lawful right to use the underlying third-party material." "You may not copy or mirror the Service as a competing service, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public source code except where law expressly permits, remove proprietary notices, evade technical restrictions, register or coordinate multiple accounts to bypass limits, or provide raw account or API-key access to an unaffiliated third party without written permission."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: source "google_news", query. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs, params.autocorrect
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/queries/realtime

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search parameters, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, news result position

## FlashData's plans (8)

- [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $49 monthly, Micro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/49-monthly-micro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.784 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/199-monthly-starter-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.647 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/499-monthly-pro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $999 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/999-monthly-scale-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/1999-monthly-business-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [FlashData, contact us, Pay-as-you-go volume pricing, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/contact-us-pay-as-you-go-volume-pricing-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

## FlashData's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/queries`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/batch`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/realtime`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)

## FlashData's APIs (2)

- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Images API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-images-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Images API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-images-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Images API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-images-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Places API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-places-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Places API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-places-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Places API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-places-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Shopping API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-shopping-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Shopping API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-shopping-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Shopping API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-shopping-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Videos API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-videos-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Videos API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-videos-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Videos API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-videos-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, YouTube Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-youtube-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-youtube-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)

## FlashData: news API alternatives

- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly, Standard, GET /google_news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly-standard-get-google-news/llms.txt): $0.375 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SerpBase, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpbase/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.416 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/3229-20-yearly/llms.txt): $0.449 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 2026-10-28.

- https://flashdata.dev
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/errors
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_news
- https://flashdata.dev/legal/terms
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing/google-search