Google News
Pulls news headlines from Google's public RSS feeds without needing any authentication or API keys. You get top stories, topic feeds (world, tech, business, sports), location-specific news for validated countries, and keyword searches with time filters and boolean operators. The source documentation includes tested locale combinations for the US, UK, India, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and others, plus the obscure base64 topic IDs you'd otherwise have to scrape from the site yourself. Responses come back as RSS 2.0 XML with clustered related articles in the description field. Reasonable for prototypes, news monitoring dashboards, or quick research scripts where you need current headlines but don't want to deal with proper news APIs.
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$ npx -y skills add outsharp/shipp-skills --skill google-news --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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Google News RSS API
Google News is a free news aggregator that collects headlines from thousands of publishers around the world. Google exposes its feeds via public RSS 2.0 endpoints that require no authentication or API key.
Base URL
https://news.google.com/rss
All feed URLs are built by appending paths and query parameters to this base.
Query Parameters
Every feed URL accepts the following query parameters to control region and language:
| Parameter | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
hl | Yes | Interface language / locale code | en-US, fr, de, ja, pt-BR, es-419 |
gl | Yes | Country / geographic location (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) | US, GB, IN, DE, JP, BR |
ceid | Yes | Compound locale key in the form {gl}:{language} | US:en, GB:en, DE:de, JP:ja, BR:pt-419 |
Important: All three parameters should be consistent. Mismatched values may return unexpected or empty results.
Supported Locations (Validated)
The following locations have been tested and confirmed to return valid RSS feeds (HTTP 200):
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- Jun 3, 2026
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