What to use now Google News API is deprecated? [closed]

Asked 18/10, 2011 at 11:3 Answered 20/10, 2011 at 0:6

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As part of a Project I'm working on I've been instructed to implement Google News API into a Web Application.

However, I've checked the Google News API site, and I see the following message:

Important: The Google News Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be limited.

I've checked SO Questions but I've not been able to find a question related to the News API.

What should I use now that Google News API is redundant?
Is it the Custom Search API?
And if so, how can I make this relevant for just News Results for a particular query for my Web Application?

I've checked the Google News RSS, but this uses HTML in the description which won't work for my requirements as I just need the text.

Oriental answered 18/10, 2011 at 11:3 Comment(9)

You can used R's tm.plugin.webmining package to extract news and text from GoogleNews (and others). More info @ cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm.plugin.webmining/index.html – Fishbolt 10/1, 2016 at 17:2

If you are looking for an API to crawl news from multi sources, you could consider Newsriver (newsriver.io). It's a very recent API to retrieve structured online news articles. Newsriver covers a large number of sources, and it's fully configurable. – Adenaadenauer 6/5, 2016 at 12:7

Try Faroo: faroo.com/hp/api/api.html – Schaffhausen 19/7, 2016 at 21:35

You can use a third party solution like this API: serpapi.com/news-results – Ladybug 4/9, 2018 at 2:38

You can check for contextualwebsearch: rapidapi.com/contextualwebsearch/api/…. – Downbeat 14/1, 2019 at 8:33

Answer to the similar question about Google News scraping with code example: https://mcmap.net/q/168801/-web-scraping-google-news-with-python – Keep 3/4, 2020 at 16:29

You can try this service from Rapid API rapidapi.com/anju.313/api/google-trends, But this is a paid service. Thanks – Saliva 29/3, 2021 at 7:23

Aylien provides a News API that gives you access to NLP-enriched news articles from 80,000+ news sources: aylien.com/product/news-api/demo – Algo 26/1, 2022 at 12:2

You can extract URLs from the RSS feed and then extract the rest of the content (title, description, image) from the news source URL. – Cytosine 7/8, 2022 at 13:53

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Depending on your needs, you want to use their section feeds, their search feeds

http://news.google.com/news?q=apple&output=rss

or Bing News Search.

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/

Sternway answered 20/10, 2011 at 0:6 Comment(11)

The Google News RSS uses HTML in the description to display an image positioned next to the text. This won't work for my requirements as its too restrictive with the design I need to meet. I need the description to just be text, no HTML. – Oriental 2/11, 2011 at 15:46

as you pointed out, google news api is deprecated so eitheir you do the work of stripping down the HTML or you use the Bing API. THere are not many alternatives – Sternway 2/11, 2011 at 20:35

Cheers @nambrot, sorry its just I have to stick to requirements from the client. I'm currently seeing whether a switch to Bing would be okay! – Oriental 3/11, 2011 at 9:21

what i am saying is you could strip down the html if it is that important to use google news. its non-commercial use only though – Sternway 3/11, 2011 at 15:35

Ah right, I wasn't aware of that cheers! – Oriental 3/11, 2011 at 15:36

cool, Can you tell what are the parameters(e.g. location etc) which we can pass to the google news url? news.google.com/news?q=apple&output=rss – Mouldy 12/11, 2012 at 6:22

i'm also wondering if i can filter by time/date. – Yul 19/12, 2013 at 1:44

any way to get next page results? – Ezra 8/7, 2016 at 2:45

web.archive.org URL for search parameters: web.archive.org/web/20150204025359/http://… (@BrownyLin) – Schaffhausen 19/7, 2016 at 5:2

For those who wish to fetch google trends , Please use this service from Rapid API rapidapi.com/anju.313/api/google-trends – Saliva 29/3, 2021 at 7:6

Aylien provides a News API that gives you access to NLP-enriched news articles from 80,000+ news sources: aylien.com/product/news-api/demo – Algo 24/1, 2022 at 10:21

I'm running into the same issue with one of my own apps. So far I've found the only non-deprecated way to access Google News data is through their RSS feeds. They have a feed for each section and also a useful search function. However, these are only for noncommercial use.

As for viable alternatives I'll be trying out these two services: Feedzilla, Daylife

Camaraderie answered 19/10, 2011 at 23:50 Comment(2)

daylife link is dead – Medallist 7/12, 2018 at 23:4

Are the RSS feeds still working? – Undies 13/3, 2020 at 11:35

Looks like you might have until the end of 2013 before they officially close it down. http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/6aaa1b3529620610/d70f8eec3684e431?lnk=gst&q=news+api#d70f8eec3684e431

Also, it sounds like they are building a replacement... but it's going to cost you.

I'd say, go to a different service. I think bing has a news API.

You might enjoy (or not) reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864625

Curmudgeon answered 20/10, 2011 at 0:4 Comment(0)

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