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Google News Light Top Stories API

SerpApi is able to scrape, extract, and make sense of top stories results for certain search queries.

When SerpApi encounters top stories results, we add them to our JSON output as the array top_stories.

For each top stories result, we are able to extract its title, link, source, and date.

Example with q: AI

Example with q: AI

JSON Example

  "top_stories": [
    {
      "title": "Anthropic launches new AI models Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4",
      "stories": [
        {
          "title": "Anthropic says its new AI model can work almost an entire workday straight",
          "link": "https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/tech/ai-anthropic-claude-4-opus-sonnet-agent",
          "source": "CNN",
          "date": "19 hours ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline",
          "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/",
          "source": "TechCrunch",
          "date": "18 hours ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "Activating AI Safety Level 3 Protections",
          "link": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/activating-asl3-protections",
          "source": "Anthropic",
          "date": "19 hours ago"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Google I/O unveils new features for AI-powered search",
      "stories": [
        {
          "title": "AI in Search: Going beyond information to intelligence",
          "link": "https://blog.google/products/search/google-search-ai-mode-update/",
          "source": "Google Blog",
          "date": "2 days ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "Google launches $250 per month 'VIP' AI subscription service",
          "link": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/google-io-ai-ultra.html",
          "source": "CNBC",
          "date": "2 days ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips",
          "link": "https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/google-ai-videos-veo-3",
          "source": "Axios",
          "date": "3 hours ago"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "China warns US over Huawei chips",
      "stories": [
        {
          "title": "Trump changed Biden’s AI chip rules. What now, will it affect China trade talks?",
          "link": "https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3311404/trump-changed-bidens-ai-chip-rules-what-now-will-it-affect-china-trade-talks",
          "source": "South China Morning Post",
          "date": "22 hours ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "US and China are already feuding again after unexpected trade truce",
          "link": "https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/21/business/us-china-conflict-huawei-ai-chips-intl-hnk",
          "source": "CNN",
          "date": "2 days ago"
        },
        {
          "title": "Trump reverses course on Middle East tech policy, but will it be enough to counter China?",
          "link": "https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-reverses-course-middle-east-tech-policy-enough-counter-china",
          "source": "Fox News",
          "date": "2 hours ago"
        }
      ]
    },
    ...
  ],

JSON structure overview 

{
  "top_stories": [
    {
      "title": "String - Title of the news results section",
      "stories": [
        {
          "title": "String - Title of the news result",
          "link": "String - URL of the news result",
          "source": "String - Source of the news result",
          "date": "String - Date of the news result"
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    ...    
  ]
}