# SearchCans, free: News API

> Built for media monitoring, PR tracking, and trend research. One POST returns real-time Google News headlines with source, publication date, snippet, and thumbnail — fresh stories indexed within minutes.

SearchCans's news API on its Free 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/searchcans/free
- [Best news API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.searchcans.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://www.searchcans.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.searchcans.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.searchcans.com/google-news-api
- Sold by: SearchCans (https://www.searchcans.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## 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 Shopping API · Google Images API · Google Videos API · Google Short Videos API · Bing Search API · Reader API · File Extraction API · Web Screenshot API

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Built for media monitoring, PR tracking, and trend research. One POST returns real-time Google News headlines with source, publication date, snippet, and thumbnail — fresh stories indexed within minutes.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Data accessible through SearchCans may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). [...] In some cases, public-domain content accessible to SearchCans may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. [...] Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or the source of the Data. Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.11 s

## The call

- You send: t "google_news", s, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, p, page, d, html
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, news result position, news result title, news result source, news result link, news result date, news result ISO date, news result snippet, news result thumbnail

## SearchCans's plans (6)

- [SearchCans, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $18 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/18-pack/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/99-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $597 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/597-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, $1,680 pack](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/1680-pack/llms.txt): $0.56 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [SearchCans, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/contact-us/llms.txt): 67% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/v1/search`: [SearchCans, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/free/llms.txt)

## SearchCans's APIs (2)

- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Bing Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-bing-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Google Images API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-google-images-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Google Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-google-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Google Shopping API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-google-shopping-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Google Short Videos API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-google-short-videos-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/v1/search, Google Videos API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchcans/free-free-post-api-v1-search-google-videos-api/llms.txt)
- [SearchCans: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/searchcans/free/llms.txt)

## SearchCans: news API alternatives

- [Ujeebu, $1,285.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/ujeebu/1285-20-yearly/llms.txt): $0.535 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $64,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/valueserp/64800-yearly/llms.txt): $0.54 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [Search1API, $990 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /news, News](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/search1api/990-yearly-professional-annual-post-news-news/llms.txt): $0.55 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

## 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.

- https://www.searchcans.com/account-api
- https://www.searchcans.com/google-news-api
- https://www.searchcans.com/google-search-api
- https://www.searchcans.com/pricing
- https://www.searchcans.com/rate-limits
- https://www.searchcans.com/terms