openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Serper Google Search Autocomplete News API
  description: RESTful API providing real-time Google Search Engine Results Page (SERP) data in structured JSON format. Supports web search, image search, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and autocomplete via POST endpoints. Authentication uses an X-API-KEY header. Designed for high-throughput AI and LLM applications with up to 300 queries per second.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: Serper Support
    url: https://serper.dev
  termsOfService: https://serper.dev/terms-of-service
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://serper.dev
servers:
- url: https://google.serper.dev
  description: Serper API server
security:
- apiKeyHeader: []
tags:
- name: News
  description: News search results
paths:
  /news:
    post:
      operationId: newsSearch
      summary: News Search
      description: Perform a Google News search and receive structured news article results including titles, links, snippets, dates, sources, and images.
      tags:
      - News
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchRequest'
            example:
              q: technology news
              gl: us
              hl: en
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful news search response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/NewsSearchResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
components:
  schemas:
    SearchParameters:
      type: object
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: The search query.
        gl:
          type: string
          description: Country code.
        hl:
          type: string
          description: Language code.
        type:
          type: string
          description: The type of search performed.
        num:
          type: integer
          description: Number of results requested.
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Page number.
    NewsResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: News article title.
        link:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL to the news article.
        snippet:
          type: string
          description: Article excerpt or summary.
        date:
          type: string
          description: Publication date or relative time (e.g., "2 weeks ago").
        source:
          type: string
          description: News source name.
        imageUrl:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL of the article thumbnail image.
        position:
          type: integer
          description: Position in news results.
    NewsSearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        searchParameters:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchParameters'
        news:
          type: array
          description: News search results.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/NewsResult'
    SearchRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - q
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: The search query string.
          example: google search
        gl:
          type: string
          description: Country code for geolocation of results (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).
          example: us
          default: us
        hl:
          type: string
          description: Language code for results (ISO 639-1).
          example: en
          default: en
        num:
          type: integer
          description: Number of results to return (1-100).
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
          default: 10
          example: 10
        page:
          type: integer
          description: Page number for pagination.
          minimum: 1
          default: 1
          example: 1
        tbs:
          type: string
          description: Time-based search filter. Use values like 'qdr:h' (past hour), 'qdr:d' (past day), 'qdr:w' (past week), 'qdr:m' (past month), 'qdr:y' (past year).
          example: qdr:d
        autocorrect:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether to enable autocorrect for the query.
          default: true
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error description.
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized — invalid or missing API key.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request — missing or invalid parameters.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Too many requests — rate limit exceeded or credits exhausted.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-KEY
      description: API key obtained from https://serper.dev/api-key