SearchAPI.io - Google News Light API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-google-news-light on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Access real-time news articles from Google News with a lightweight implementation optimized for performance. This API provides structured access to news articles, top stories, and pagination from Google News search results with minimal overhead. It offers the same core functionality as the standard Google News API but with optimized performance characteristics. Cross-linking: Results from this API can be used with other Google APIs for deeper insights. For example, you can use article URLs with the Google Light API for additional search context.

Tool id: searchapi-io-google-news-light
Provider: SearchAPI.io
Job: Google news light search (search.google-news-light)
Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`engine`	string	no	Fixed to “google_news_light” for this endpoint. Example: “google_news_light”
`filter`	string	no
`gl`	string	no
`hl`	string	no
`location`	string	no
`nfpr`	string	no
`page`	integer	no
`q`	string	yes
`sort_by`	string	no
`time_period`	string	no
`uule`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-google-news-light prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-google-news-light","input":{"q":"<q>","engine":"google_news_light"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-google-news-light",
    input: {
      q: "<q>",
      engine: "google_news_light",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-google-news-light",
        "input": {
            "q": "<q>",
            "engine": "google_news_light",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.google-news-light as endpointId; see the job page.