# ScrapingBot.io, free: News API

> Google News results: headline, publisher, how long ago, link and image.

ScrapingBot.io's Free plan for the news API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. ScrapingBot.io's docs list 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist: Source, Date, Image.
We haven't run ScrapingBot.io through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 836 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.198 per 1,000 searches or less. [See the best free news API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
[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. [AnswerLine's Starter plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/answerline/top-up-from-1-starter-post-v1-async-task/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $2.00.
[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/scrapingbot-io/free
- [News API in 2026: the best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scrapingbot.io/api/v1/google`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrapingbot.io/docs/google?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing#google-news
- Sold by: ScrapingBot.io (https://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 50 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google News results: headline, publisher, how long ago, link and image.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: ScrapingBot returns publicly available data. You are responsible for what you collect and how you use it, [...] You agree not to use the service to: Access content behind a login, a paywall or other access controls, or any non-public or private data. Track, monitor, profile or harass individuals, build dossiers on people, or make decisions about people’s eligibility for jobs, credit, housing or insurance. Collect sensitive personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, sexuality or biometrics) or children’s data. Send spam, or collect contact details for unsolicited messages. Break the law, infringe others’ rights, or collect data you have no right to use. Overload or disrupt any website, or our service, or try to get around our limits, billing or security. Resell or give away raw access to the API itself (for example, a public proxy for our endpoints). Building your own product on top of the data is fine.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 10 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: endpoint "/news", params.q. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.num, params.page, params.tbs
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/google

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or older, and old enough to enter a contract where they live

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

news result title, news result link, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, success, search parameters, credits used

## ScrapingBot.io's plans (6)

- [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $49.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/49-99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.818 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $99.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/99-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.909 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $249.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/249-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.757 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ScrapingBot.io, $999.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/999-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.645 per 1,000, 50% complete

## ScrapingBot.io's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/v1/google`: [ScrapingBot.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapingbot-io/free/llms.txt)

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## ScrapingBot.io: news API alternatives

- [NewsMesh, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsmesh/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $0.636 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [FlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/199-monthly-starter-post-v1-queries/llms.txt): $0.647 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Ujeebu, $650 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/650-pack/llms.txt): $0.65 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ScrapeBadger, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /v1/naver/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapebadger/49-monthly-starter-get-v1-naver-news/llms.txt): $0.653 per 1,000, 67% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://scrapingbot.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/docs/google?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/google?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://scrapingbot.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing