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Scrappa pricing and alternatives: news API

Scrappa's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 321 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and Serper are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scrappa's 11 plans
Call: GET /api/google/news Scrappa's only call for this API
API: News API one of Scrappa's 20 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the news when you call.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a month.
  • One call. You call GET /api/google/news. Every input is optional: q, hl, gl, page, start, so, topic_token, kgmid, publication_token, section_token, story_token.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrappa: news API alternatives

The table starts with Scrappa's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Scrappa's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Scrappa, $1,000 packScrapingdog, $6,000 monthly, Enterprise Pro, GET /google_newsAnswerLine, top-up from $1, Starter, POST /v1/async/taskPrismCrawl, $100 pack, Growth, POST /v1/google/newsSerpBase, $100 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.20$0.20$0.20$0.21$0.25
Completeness67%67%33%83%67%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$1,000$6,000$1$100$100
Enough for5,000,000 calls30,000,000 calls a month5,000 calls476,191 calls400,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 with a valid email addressanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. scrappa.co/apis/linkedin-api
  2. scrappa.co/docs/error-handling
  3. scrappa.co/docs/google-news-api/google_news
  4. scrappa.co/legal/terms-of-service
  5. scrappa.co/pricing

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
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 2,378 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch and scrape news articles from Google News.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSubject to these Terms, we permit you to use API output lawfully obtained through your account in your own commercial or non-commercial applications, websites, and reports. This includes storing and caching output, displaying it to your users, linking to original sources, combining and comparing it with other data, and performing analytics, including AI-assisted analysis. [...] Reselling API output as a standalone dataset or data feed, or reselling access to the Service, requires our written authorization. [...] Public availability and delivery through the API do not, by themselves, establish a right to reuse content. [...] You are responsible for establishing a lawful basis for your use, obtaining any permissions required, and complying with applicable laws and third-party terms that legally apply to your use. This includes any applicable attribution, retention, deletion, redistribution, and AI or text-and-data-mining restrictions. [...] You agree not to: Use the Service for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws, Violate or infringe upon the rights of others, Attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers connected to the Service, Resell or redistribute API output outside the application uses permitted by Section 8 without our written authorization, Use the Service to scrape or collect data in violation of third-party terms of service that legally apply to your use, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a month
Enough for500 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.86 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: q, hl, gl, page, start, so, topic_token, kgmid, publication_token, section_token, story_token
MethodGET
Path/api/google/news
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

news results, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, highlight, menu links, sub menu links, related publications, related searches, cached, fetched at

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