google-news

google-news is a skill for Claude Code from fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An HTTP service for retrieving Google News headlines and search results as JSON. Google News is Google's service for aggregating news stories from publishers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search headlines by keyword and language, retrieve the latest stories, and browse news sections such as business, technology, health, or science.
Why use it?
It avoids scraping RSS feeds, decoding redirect links, and relying on undocumented internal endpoints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the fetcher-skills plugin — 13 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to search headlines by keyword and language, retrieve the latest stories, and browse news sections such as business, technology, health, or science.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/google-news
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-news
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fetcher-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 4 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for google-news

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/google-news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/google-news.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 14 Aug 2026
  • Snyk fail 14 Aug 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00126 $0.01499
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00150

Measured 11d ago against content hash c3c8cd893195, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

google-news scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
skills/google-news/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Google News API

Google News headlines and search as clean JSON — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No RSS feed scraping, no redirect-URL decoding by hand, no undocumented internal endpoints.

Base URL: https://google-news.fetcher.sh

Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the fetcher skill:

# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://google-news.fetcher.sh/api/search?keyword=hello&languageCode=en-US"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.

Every response is { "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }; the HTTP status mirrors status.

Endpoints (12 — all GET, $0.005/call)

Endpoint What it returns
/api/search Headlines matching a keyword, in one language edition
/api/latest Latest headlines
/api/world World section headlines
/api/business Business section headlines
/api/technology Technology section headlines
/api/entertainment Entertainment section headlines
/api/sport Sport section headlines
/api/science Science section headlines
/api/health Health section headlines
/api/topic/{topicId} Headlines for an arbitrary topic ID
/api/language-regions Every supported languageCode value
/api/decode-article-url Resolves a Google News redirect URL to the real article URL

languageCode (e.g. en-US, en-GB, fr-FR) is required on every endpoint except /api/language-regions, which takes no parameters at all and exists specifically to list the valid values. keyword is additionally required on /api/search; url is required on /api/decode-article-url.

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 164 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A c3c8cd893195

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google-news is a skill published in the GitHub repository fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,499 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-01.

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