LurkAPI pricing: news API
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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run LurkAPI through our news API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Finage's $49 monthly plan (/
Plan: Free credits one of LurkAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree credits$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 packStarter$0.90 per 1,000
- $59 packGrowth$0.59 per 1,000
- $225 packScale$0.45 per 1,000
Call:
GET / LurkAPI's only call for this APIAPI: News API one of LurkAPI's 37 APIs
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GET /v1/ web/ residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ fetch - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ render-residential - Web scraping API
GET /v1/ web/ unblock
About this item
- A copy at most 10 minutes old. You get articles LurkAPI saved earlier.
- 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 calls.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv1/ google/ news region,languageanddate_. The call returns the news articles that match.posted - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
LurkAPI: news API alternatives
LurkAPI alternatives: every news API provider ranked
The table starts with LurkAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to LurkAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| LurkAPI, $225 pack | Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly | ValueSERP, $108,000 yearly | Scrapingdog, $90 monthly, Standard, GET /google_news/v2 | Omkar Cloud, $48 monthly, Grow Plan, GET /google-news/search | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.45 | $0.449 | $0.45 | $0.45 | $0.48 |
| Completeness | 33% | 67% | 67% | 67% | 83% |
| Billing | pay first | yearly | yearly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $225 | $3,229.20 | $108,000 | $90 | $48 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls | 600,000 calls a month | 20,000,000 calls a month | 200,000 calls a month | 100,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | 10 minutes | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission | anyone | anyone | anyone aged 18 or over who is not in a country under a United States embargo or on a United States list of prohibited or restricted parties |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Source
- Date
- Author, not in the answer
- Snippet, not in the answer
- Image, not in the answer
- Full text, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 87 other calls |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | News articles for any search from Google News: headline, publisher and publish time, up to about 100 per call. |
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| Freshness | 10 minutes |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Fair use: Don't try to break, overload or get around the limits of the service. Don't share or resell your API keys. Building your own products on top of LurkAPI is fine. Don't use LurkAPI to harass people or for anything illegal. [...] LurkAPI returns publicly available data. You're responsible for how you use it, including the privacy and data protection laws that apply to you. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 5 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: region, language, date_posted |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/google/news |
| Plan | Free credits |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
result title, source, source URL, Google News URL, published at