Response Objects

# NewsSearchApiResponse

Top level response model for successful News Search API requests. The API can also respond back with an error response based on invalid subscription keys and rate limit events.

Field Type Description
type "news" The type of search API result. The value is always news.
query Query News search query string.
results list [ NewsResult ] The list of news results for the given query.

# Query

A model representing information gathered around the requested query.

Field Type Description
original string The original query that was requested.
altered string The altered query by the spellchecker. This is the query that is used to search if any.
cleaned string The cleaned noramlized query by the spellchecker. This is the query that is used to search if any.
spellcheck_off bool Whether the spell checker is enabled or disabled.
show_strict_warning string The value is True if the lack of results is due to a 'strict' safesearch setting. Adult content relevant to the query was found, but was blocked by safesearch.

# NewsResult

A model representing a news result for the requested query.

Field Type Description
type news_result The type of news search API result. The value is always news_result.
url string The source url of the news article.
title string The title of the news article.
description string The description for the news article.
age string A human readable representation of the page age.
page_age string The page age found from the source web page.
page_fetched string The iso date time when the page was last fetched. The format is YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
breaking bool Whether the result includes breaking news.
thumbnail Thumbnail The thumbnail for the news article.
meta_url MetaUrl Aggregated information on the url associated with the news search result.
extra_snippets list [ string ] A list of extra alternate snippets for the news search result.

# Thumbnail

Aggregated details representing the news thumbnail

Field Type Description
src string The served url of the thumbnail associated with the news article.
original string The original url of the thumbnail associated with the news article.

# MetaUrl

Aggregated information about a url.

Field Type Description
scheme string The protocol scheme extracted from the url.
netloc string The network location part extracted from the url.
hostname string The lowercased domain name extracted from the url.
favicon string The favicon used for the url.
path string The hierarchical path of the url useful as a display string.