There is no Google News API. Here's what to use instead.
If you searched "Google News API," here's the short version: Google deprecated its official News Search API in 2011 and shut it down for good in 2016. Nothing official replaced it. Every page ranking for that query today, including this one, is selling you an alternative. Here are the real options, with the trade-offs stated plainly.
1. Google News RSS feeds
Google News still publishes RSS feeds per topic, search query, and locale. They're free and they're really Google's ranking. But they're undocumented and unofficial: no SLA, no structured fields beyond basic RSS, links that bounce through redirects, and Google can change or rate-limit them any day. Fine for a hobby reader; a fragile foundation for a product.
2. SERP scrapers
Services like SerpAPI scrape the Google News surface and sell it as JSON. You get Google's actual results, which is sometimes exactly what you need for rank tracking or SEO tooling. You pay per search, inherit scraping's fragility one layer removed, and still get a list of links without summaries, deduplication, or story structure.
3. News aggregator APIs
What most people searching "Google News API" actually want is "give my code the news as data." That's the news API category: NewsAPI.org, GNews, NewsData.io and others sell raw articles; NewsAPI.ai and Perigon sell enriched articles and events at enterprise depth. The trade-offs are mostly about the unit of data, free-tier restrictions, and pricing mechanics. We keep honest comparisons of the products we're most often weighed against, including when to pick them over us.
Where we fit
Hivewire is in that third category, at a specific point: we group reporting about a news event into one cited story with a summary and significance score, over a curated set of publications that do original reporting. If what you liked about Google News was that it gave you one entry per story, ranked, that's the part we sell as JSON. The free plan supports real-time, deployed non-commercial apps; commercial use starts at $29 a month. If you need Google's breadth or its exact ranking, use the RSS feeds or a SERP scraper and accept their fragility; that's the trade-off.