Fast SERP news search

Bright Data offers a fast SERP service for News, available to selected enterprise customers only. This service responds with a compact JSON to power real-time applications that need up-to-date news results. To gain access, please contact your Bright Data account manager.

Google News endpoints

Google offers two endpoints for news search results: news.google.com and https://www.google.com/search/q=[searchTerm]&tbm=nws Bright Data offers Fast SERP results only for: https://www.google.com/search/q=[searchTerm]&tbm=nws . Bright Data will provide results for news.google.com , but with in our regular SERP.

Fast News Search Request

Fast SERP for Google News works best with the native proxy interface. If you need a REST API interface for your architecture, one can be provided.

For Fast SERP, both the x-unblock-data-format: parsed_lightrequest header and the brd_json=1 URL parameter are required. Omitting either will result in an unexpected response format.

Native proxy request

curl -i --proxy fserp.brd.superproxy.io:33335 \
  --proxy-user brd-customer-<CUSTOMER>-zone-<ZONE>:<PASSWORD> \
  -k \
  -H 'x-unblock-data-format: parsed_light' \
  "https://www.google.com/search?q=earthquake&tbm=nws&brd_json=1"

Response Format

A successful response returns a JSON object with the following top-level fields.

Choosing image format

For news articles search results in Fast SERP, Bright Data offers to receive the data either as embedded Base64 binary code or as a URL. The default is Base64. In order to get the image links use this header: -H 'x-unblock-img-format: link' Example:

curl  --proxy fserp.brd.superproxy.io:33335 --proxy-user [username]:[password] -k -H 'x-unblock-data-format: parsed_light' -H 'x-unblock-img-format: link' "https://www.google.com/search?q=earthquake&tbm=nws&brd_json=1" --output nws_links.json

`news` array

The primary array of individual news results.

Field	Type	Description
`link`	string	URL of the news article
`title`	string	Headline of the article
`source`	string	Name of the news publisher
`source_logo`	string	URL of the publisher’s logo image or Base64 image binary code
`date`	string	Publication date/time of the article
`image`	string	URL of the article’s thumbnail image or Base64 image binary code
`global_rank`	integer	Rank position of the result on the page

`article_sets` array

Grouped article clusters organized by topic, each containing a heading label and an items array of articles.

article_sets is not guaranteed to appear in every response. Your implementation should handle its absence gracefully.

Example response with image links

{
  "organic": [],
  "news": [
    {
      "link": "https://www.example-news.com/world/earthquake-latest",
      "title": "Major Earthquake Strikes Pacific Region",
      "source": "Example News",
      "source_logo": "https://www.example-news.com/logo.png",
      "date": "2 hours ago",
      "image": "https://www.example-news.com/images/earthquake.jpg",
      "global_rank": 1
    },
    {
      "link": "https://www.another-outlet.com/earthquake-update",
      "title": "Rescue Operations Underway After Earthquake",
      "source": "Another Outlet",
      "source_logo": "https://www.another-outlet.com/logo.png",
      "date": "3 hours ago",
      "image": "https://www.another-outlet.com/images/rescue.jpg",
      "global_rank": 2
    }
  ],
  "article_sets": [
    {
      "heading": "Latest Updates",
      "items": [
        {
          "link": "https://www.example-news.com/world/earthquake-latest",
          "title": "Major Earthquake Strikes Pacific Region",
          "source": "Example News",
          "date": "2 hours ago"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Response schema: https://api.brightdata.com/data_schemas/fast_serp/google_search_news.schema.json

Supported parameters

Parameter	Description	Example	Notes
`q`	Search query (must be first in URL)	`q=earthquake`	Query size must be under 8,000 charachters. Longer queries fail with error.
`gl`	Two-letter country code for search country	`gl=us`
`hl`	Two-letter language code for page language	`hl=en`
`brd_json`	Required.`1` = parsed JSON	`brd_json=1`

Headers

Header	Description	Example
`x-unblock-data-format`	Required. Must be `parsed_light`	`parsed_light`
`x-unblock-img-format`	Image format: `link` (URL) or default (Base64)	`link`

Introduction

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Google News endpoints

Fast News Search Request

Native proxy request

Response Format

Choosing image format

`news` array

`article_sets` array

Example response with image links

Supported parameters

​Google News endpoints

​Fast News Search Request

​Native proxy request

​Response Format

​Choosing image format

​news array

​article_sets array

​Example response with image links

​Supported parameters

Google News endpoints

Fast News Search Request

Native proxy request

Response Format

Choosing image format

`news` array

`article_sets` array

Example response with image links

Supported parameters