Google News RSS: Get 100 Latest Articles on Any Topic (Free, No API Key)

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Google News has an RSS feed that returns the latest 100 articles for any search query. No API key, no rate limits.

The URL Pattern

https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=electric+vehicles&hl=en

Returns XML with: title, source name, publication date, link, description.

Node.js Example

const { parseStringPromise } = require('xml2js');

async function getGoogleNews(query, lang = 'en') {
  const url = `https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(query)}&hl=${lang}`;
  const res = await fetch(url);
  const xml = await res.text();
  const parsed = await parseStringPromise(xml);

  return (parsed.rss.channel[0].item || []).map(item => ({
    title: item.title[0],
    source: item.source?.[0]?._ || '',
    date: item.pubDate[0],
    link: item.link[0],
    description: (item.description?.[0] || '').replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '').substring(0, 200)
  }));
}

const news = await getGoogleNews('artificial intelligence');
console.log(`Found ${news.length} articles`);
news.slice(0, 3).forEach(n => console.log(`${n.source}: ${n.title}`));

Multi-Language

Change hl= parameter:

hl=en English
hl=ru Russian
hl=zh-CN Chinese
hl=es Spanish
hl=fr French

Use Cases

Market monitoring — track news about your industry
Competitor alerts — get notified when competitors are mentioned
Content curation — aggregate news for newsletters
Sentiment tracking — what's the media saying about a topic?

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