# SerpScraper.dev, free: News API

> Google deprecated its official News API in 2011. SerpScraper provides the modern, enterprise-grade replacement: query live Google News index programmatically and receive clean, structured JSON with publisher metadata, unshortened source URLs, publication timestamps, and thumbnails across 200+ countries.

SerpScraper.dev'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 584 plans by price. [Serpent API's top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-500-scale-get-api-news-bing-news-search/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.01.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt), [ReefAPI](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/reefapi/450-quarterly-enterprise-quarterly-post-news-article-v1-news-search/llms.txt) and [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free
- [Best news API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serpscraper.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://serpscraper.dev/api/v1/news-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serpscraper.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://serpscraper.dev/news-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: SerpScraper.dev (https://serpscraper.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Unified Search · Web Search · AI Overview (AIO) · Image Search · Video Search · Shopping Search · Autocomplete · Scholar Search · Maps Search · Reviews Search · Google Trends - Trending Now · Google Trends - Interest Over Time · Webpage Extract · IP Lookup · Exchange Rate · Crypto Price · Domain Info

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google deprecated its official News API in 2011. SerpScraper provides the modern, enterprise-grade replacement: query live Google News index programmatically and receive clean, structured JSON with publisher metadata, unshortened source URLs, publication timestamps, and thumbnails across 200+ countries.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "We grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable developer license to interact with our endpoints in your internal applications, commercial SaaS products, and research projects." "Strictly Prohibited Activities: Any intentional breach of the following restrictions will result in immediate API key suspension without refund. Launching Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, automated fuzzing, or deliberate stress tests against our proxy gateways without written consent. Attempting to circumvent, breach, or reverse-engineer our rate limiters, token validation headers, or routing algorithms. Using our scraping infrastructure to target private, authenticated databases, paywalled personal records, or classified government information. Reselling unparsed raw network bandwidth or impersonating our API services to downstream third parties without an authorized reseller agreement."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 credits
- Enough for: 5,000 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keyword. Optional: gl, hl, page, size, time
- Method: GET
- Path: /news-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, page number, country code, language code, time taken, result position, result title, result URL, result snippet, publisher name, publisher icon URL, published at, thumbnail URL

## SerpScraper.dev's plans (16)

- [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.36 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.36 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.19 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt): $0.13 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.099 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $139 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/139-monthly/llms.txt): $0.077 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.055 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $96 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/96-yearly/llms.txt): $0.32 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $192 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/192-yearly/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $396 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/396-yearly/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/792-yearly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $1,392 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/1392-yearly/llms.txt): $0.064 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $2,496 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/2496-yearly/llms.txt): $0.046 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, $4,992 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/4992-yearly/llms.txt): $0.028 per 1,000, 67% complete

## SerpScraper.dev's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /news-search`: [SerpScraper.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)

## SerpScraper.dev's APIs (7)

- [SerpScraper.dev: image search API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: search autocomplete API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: SERP API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: video search API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: web search API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: news API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpScraper.dev: web scraping API pricing, 16 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt)

## SerpScraper.dev: news API alternatives

- [World News API, free](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/world-news-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 83% complete
- [Serpent API, top-up from $100, Growth, GET /api/news, Yahoo News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpent-api/top-up-from-100-growth-get-api-news-yahoo-news-search/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [AllNewsAPI, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/allnewsapi/200-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [TheNewsAPI, $792 yearly, Pro, yearly, GET /v1/news/all](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/thenewsapi/792-yearly-pro-yearly-get-v1-news-all/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 67% complete
- [Marketaux, $996 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/marketaux/996-yearly/llms.txt): $0.109 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 2026-11-03.

- https://serpscraper.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://serpscraper.dev/news-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://serpscraper.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://serpscraper.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://serpscraper.dev/serp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://serpscraper.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing