News aggregator

A service that collects headlines from many publishers into one feed, such as Google News, and links to the original stories.

Last updated September 28, 2026.

Definition

What News aggregator means

A news aggregator does not write stories. It indexes many outlets, groups articles about the same event, and ranks them by topic, location, or the reader's interests. Google News is the largest; others include Apple News and Yahoo News.

Aggregators are the fastest way to see coverage across outlets, and a common source for media monitoring. They show headlines and link out, so the article text stays with the publisher.

Clair's Google News API returns each headline with the publisher's own url, the source's name and domain, the publish time, and google_url, Google's link to the same story.

In the data

How it appears in a response

GET /v1/search?engine=google_news&topic=WORLD&country=nz · results.0

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "North Korean operative posing as IT contractor hired by NZ business",
  "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/24/north-korean-operative-posing-as-it-contractor-hired-by-nz-business/",
  "google_url": "https://news.google.com/read/CBMiEXAMPLE",
  "source": {
    "name": "1News",
    "domain": "1news.co.nz"
  },
  "published_at": "2026-09-24T17:03:04.000Z",
  "authors": [
    "Ed O'driscoll"
  ]
}

One Google News headline, with the publisher URL and source. From a recorded Google News API response.

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