search.google.news
Real-time Google News articles — title, source, date, snippet, image. Filter by time (past hour/day/week/month). Global coverage in 70+ languages (Serper.dev)
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What search.google.news does on Apibase
AI agents call search.google.news to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Yes | News search query (e.g. "AI agents", "Base network") |
gl | string | — | Country code for localized news (e.g. "us", "gb") |
hl | string | — | Language code (e.g. "en", "de") |
num | integer | — | Number of articles (default 10, max 100) |
tbs | string | — | Time filter: "qdr:h" (past hour), "qdr:d" (past day), "qdr:w" (past week), "qdr:m" (past month) |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why search.google.news is rated Low
Fetches and filters publicly available news data with no side effects or persistence changes.
From the tool's definition retrieves Google News articles, title, source, date, snippet, image
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The rule that runs search.google.news safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For search.google.news, this is the rule to start with:
search.google.news is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every search.google.news call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about search.google.news
Real-time Google News articles — title, source, date, snippet, image. Filter by time (past hour/day/week/month). Global coverage in 70+ languages (Serper.dev). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
search.google.news accepts 5 parameters: q, gl, hl, num, tbs. Required: q. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search.google.news: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
search.google.news is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the search.google.news rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for search.google.news. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
search.google.news is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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