generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/
provider: Google Indexing
providerId: google-indexing
versioning:
  scheme: path-major-version
  pattern: https://indexing.googleapis.com/v{major}
  current: v3
  current_since: unknown
  contract_revision: '20260805'
  contract_revision_source: https://indexing.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v3
  note: >-
    The service version is pinned in the URL path (v3). Google additionally stamps the Discovery Document
    with a `revision` date (20260805 when read on 2026-08-13), which is the only machine-readable change
    marker this API publishes. Client libraries pin to that revision — see packages/.
  previous_versions: []
  media_type_versioning: false
  header_versioning: false
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  policy_url: null
  policy_scope: >-
    VERIFIED ABSENT 2026-08-13. No deprecation or sunset policy is published for the Indexing API. The
    Google APIs Terms of Service (https://developers.google.com/terms, HTTP 200, last modified
    2021-11-09) was fetched and searched: it contains no deprecation clause at all. The Google Cloud
    deprecation policy (https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation) exists but covers Google Cloud
    Platform services; the Indexing API is a Search Central API published under developers.google.com
    and is not enumerated there, so it is not claimed here. No Deprecation pointer is wired in apis.yml
    for this reason.
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    PROBED 2026-08-13: no Sunset or Deprecation response header was observed on a live call to
    https://indexing.googleapis.com/v3/urlNotifications/metadata. No operation in the Discovery Document
    or in the refined OpenAPI carries `deprecated: true`.
  deprecated_operations: []
status_page:
  published: true
  url: https://status.search.google.com/
  scope: Google Search, including Search Central APIs
  machine_readable: true
  feeds:
    - url: https://status.search.google.com/incidents.json
      format: json
      status: 200
      probed: '2026-08-13'
  note: >-
    Google Search publishes a dedicated status dashboard with a machine-readable incidents feed. It is a
    Search-wide dashboard; the Indexing API is not broken out as its own component.
sla:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No SLA is published for the Indexing API. The service is free of charge (see plans/) and is governed
    by the Google APIs Terms of Service.
support:
  channel: Google Search Central Community
  url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/community
  issue_tracker: null
roadmap:
  published: false
  note: No public roadmap is published for the Indexing API.
changelog:
  published: true
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/updates
  feed: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/search_docs_updates.rss
  scope: All Google Search Central documentation, not Indexing-API-specific.
  artifact: changelog/google-indexing-changelog.yml
stability:
  state: stable
  eligibility_gated: true
  note: >-
    v3 has been the current version throughout the observed window. The surface is two operations and has
    not changed since at least discovery revision 20230927 (2023). Access is gated on content eligibility
    (JobPosting / BroadcastEvent) rather than on price.
evidence:
  - url: https://indexing.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v3
    status: 200
  - url: https://status.search.google.com/incidents.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://developers.google.com/search/updates
    status: 200
  - url: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quota-pricing
    status: 200