Google News

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.

Available Tools

GoogleNews.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.

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.

Reference

LanguageCodes

• ar: Arabic
• bn: Bengali
• da: Danish
• de: German
• el: Greek
• en: English
• es: Spanish
• fi: Finnish
• fr: French
• hi: Hindi
• hu: Hungarian
• id: Indonesian
• it: Italian
• ja: Japanese
• ko: Korean
• ms: Malay
• nl: Dutch
• no: Norwegian
• pcm: Nigerian Pidgin
• pl: Polish
• pt: Portuguese
• pt-br: Portuguese (Brazil)
• pt-pt: Portuguese (Portugal)
• ru: Russian
• sv: Swedish
• tl: Filipino
• tr: Turkish
• uk: Ukrainian
• zh: Chinese
• zh-cn: Chinese (Simplified)
• zh-tw: Chinese (Traditional)

CountryCodes

• af: Afghanistan
• al: Albania
• dz: Algeria
• as: American Samoa
• ad: Andorra
• ao: Angola
• ai: Anguilla
• aq: Antarctica
• ag: Antigua and Barbuda
• ar: Argentina
• am: Armenia
• aw: Aruba
• au: Australia
• at: Austria
• az: Azerbaijan
• bs: Bahamas
• bh: Bahrain
• bd: Bangladesh
• bb: Barbados
• by: Belarus
• be: Belgium
• bz: Belize
• bj: Benin
• bm: Bermuda
• bt: Bhutan
• bo: Bolivia
• ba: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• bw: Botswana
• bv: Bouvet Island
• br: Brazil
• io: British Indian Ocean Territory
• bn: Brunei Darussalam
• bg: Bulgaria
• bf: Burkina Faso
• bi: Burundi
• kh: Cambodia
• cm: Cameroon
• ca: Canada
• cv: Cape Verde
• ky: Cayman Islands
• cf: Central African Republic
• td: Chad
• cl: Chile
• cn: China
• cx: Christmas Island
• cc: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• co: Colombia
• km: Comoros
• cg: Congo
• cd: Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
• ck: Cook Islands
• cr: Costa Rica
• ci: Cote D’ivoire
• hr: Croatia
• cu: Cuba
• cy: Cyprus
• cz: Czech Republic
• dk: Denmark
• dj: Djibouti
• dm: Dominica
• do: Dominican Republic
• ec: Ecuador
• eg: Egypt
• sv: El Salvador
• gq: Equatorial Guinea
• er: Eritrea
• ee: Estonia
• et: Ethiopia
• fk: Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
• fo: Faroe Islands
• fj: Fiji
• fi: Finland
• fr: France
• gf: French Guiana
• pf: French Polynesia
• tf: French Southern Territories
• ga: Gabon
• gm: Gambia
• ge: Georgia
• de: Germany
• gh: Ghana
• gi: Gibraltar
• gr: Greece
• gl: Greenland
• gd: Grenada
• gp: Guadeloupe
• gu: Guam
• gt: Guatemala
• gg: Guernsey
• gn: Guinea
• gw: Guinea-Bissau
• gy: Guyana
• ht: Haiti
• hm: Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands
• va: Holy See (Vatican City State)
• hn: Honduras
• hk: Hong Kong
• hu: Hungary
• is: Iceland
• in: India
• id: Indonesia
• ir: Iran, Islamic Republic of
• iq: Iraq
• ie: Ireland
• im: Isle of Man
• il: Israel
• it: Italy
• je: Jersey
• jm: Jamaica
• jp: Japan
• jo: Jordan
• kz: Kazakhstan
• ke: Kenya
• ki: Kiribati
• kp: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of
• kr: Korea, Republic of
• kw: Kuwait
• kg: Kyrgyzstan
• la: Lao People’s Democratic Republic
• lv: Latvia
• lb: Lebanon
• ls: Lesotho
• lr: Liberia
• ly: Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
• li: Liechtenstein
• lt: Lithuania
• lu: Luxembourg
• mo: Macao
• mk: Macedonia, the Former Yugosalv Republic of
• mg: Madagascar
• mw: Malawi
• my: Malaysia
• mv: Maldives
• ml: Mali
• mt: Malta
• mh: Marshall Islands
• mq: Martinique
• mr: Mauritania
• mu: Mauritius
• yt: Mayotte
• mx: Mexico
• fm: Micronesia, Federated States of
• md: Moldova, Republic of
• mc: Monaco
• mn: Mongolia
• me: Montenegro
• ms: Montserrat
• ma: Morocco
• mz: Mozambique
• mm: Myanmar
• na: Namibia
• nr: Nauru
• np: Nepal
• nl: Netherlands
• an: Netherlands Antilles
• nc: New Caledonia
• nz: New Zealand
• ni: Nicaragua
• ne: Niger
• ng: Nigeria
• nu: Niue
• nf: Norfolk Island
• mp: Northern Mariana Islands
• no: Norway
• om: Oman
• pk: Pakistan
• pw: Palau
• ps: Palestinian Territory, Occupied
• pa: Panama
• pg: Papua New Guinea
• py: Paraguay
• pe: Peru
• ph: Philippines
• pn: Pitcairn
• pl: Poland
• pt: Portugal
• pr: Puerto Rico
• qa: Qatar
• re: Reunion
• ro: Romania
• ru: Russian Federation
• rw: Rwanda
• sh: Saint Helena
• kn: Saint Kitts and Nevis
• lc: Saint Lucia
• pm: Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• vc: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• ws: Samoa
• sm: San Marino
• st: Sao Tome and Principe
• sa: Saudi Arabia
• sn: Senegal
• rs: Serbia
• sc: Seychelles
• sl: Sierra Leone
• sg: Singapore
• sk: Slovakia
• si: Slovenia
• sb: Solomon Islands
• so: Somalia
• za: South Africa
• gs: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• es: Spain
• lk: Sri Lanka
• sd: Sudan
• sr: Suriname
• sj: Svalbard and Jan Mayen
• sz: Swaziland
• se: Sweden
• ch: Switzerland
• sy: Syrian Arab Republic
• tw: Taiwan, Province of China
• tj: Tajikistan
• tz: Tanzania, United Republic of
• th: Thailand
• tl: Timor-Leste
• tg: Togo
• tk: Tokelau
• to: Tonga
• tt: Trinidad and Tobago
• tn: Tunisia
• tr: Turkiye
• tm: Turkmenistan
• tc: Turks and Caicos Islands
• tv: Tuvalu
• ug: Uganda
• ua: Ukraine
• ae: United Arab Emirates
• uk: United Kingdom
• gb: United Kingdom
• us: United States
• um: United States Minor Outlying Islands
• uy: Uruguay
• uz: Uzbekistan
• vu: Vanuatu
• ve: Venezuela
• vn: Viet Nam
• vg: Virgin Islands, British
• vi: Virgin Islands, U.S.
• wf: Wallis and Futuna
• eh: Western Sahara
• ye: Yemen
• zm: Zambia
• zw: Zimbabwe

pip install arcade_google_news