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Google News

Description: Enable agents to search for news stories with Google News.

Author: Arcade

Code: GitHub

Auth: API Key

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The Arcade Google News toolkit provides a pre-built set of tools for interacting with Google News. These tools make it easy to build agents and AI apps that can:

  • Search for news stories with Google News.

Install

pip install arcade_search

pip installing the toolkit is only needed if you are self-hosting Arcade. You do not need to install the toolkit if you’re using Arcade Cloud.

Available Tools

Tool NameDescription
SearchNewsSearch for news stories with Google News.

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SearchNews


Search for news stories with Google News.

Parameters

  • query (string, required) Keywords to search for news articles. E.g. ‘Apple launches new iPhone’.
  • country_code (string, optional, Defaults to None) 2-character country code to search for news articles. E.g. ‘us’ (United States). Defaults to None (search news globally).
  • language (string, optional, Defaults to ‘en’ English) 2-character language code to search for news articles. E.g. ‘en’ (English). Defaults to ‘en’ (English).
  • limit (int, optional, Defaults to None) Maximum number of news articles to return. Defaults to None (returns all results found by the API).

Auth

The Arcade Google News toolkit uses the SerpAPI to get news data from Google News.

  • Secret:
    • SERP_API_KEY: Your SerpAPI API key.

Setting the SERP_API_KEY secret is only required if you are self-hosting Arcade. If you’re using Arcade Cloud, the secret is already set for you. To manage your secrets, go to the Secrets page in the Arcade Dashboard.

Default parameters

Language and Country are configurable through environment variables. When set, they will be used as default for Google News tools.

Providing a different value as language_code or country_code argument in the tool call will override the default value.

Language

The language code is a 2-character code that determines the language in which the API will search and return news articles. There are two environment variables:

  • ARCADE_GOOGLE_LANGUAGE: a default value for all Google search tools. If not set, defaults to ‘en’ (English).
  • ARCADE_GOOGLE_NEWS_LANGUAGE: a default value for the news search tools. If not set, defaults to ARCADE_GOOGLE_LANGUAGE.

A list of supported language codes can be found here.

Country

The country code is a 2-character code that determines the country in which the API will search for news articles. There are two environment variables:

  • ARCADE_GOOGLE_NEWS_COUNTRY: a default value for the SearchNews tool. If not set, defaults to None (search news globally).

A list of supported country codes can be found here.

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