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Agent skill

Google News API Skill

by browser-act in browser-act/skills

This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Google News API Skill

skills CLI
$ npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill google-news-api-skill -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install browser-act/skills google-news-api-skill --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/browser-act/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/solutions/search-research/google-news-api-skill .claude/skills/google-news-api-skill && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
google-news-api-skill
GitHub stars
6.1k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
685 words
Files
2 (incl. scripts)
Skills in repo
87
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API.

  • Works in 5 steps: No Hallucinations: Pre-set workflows… → No Captcha Issues: No need to handle… → No IP Restrictions: No need to handle… → …
  • Tasks that involve Schema markup
  • SKILL.md covers 📖 Introduction, ✨ Features, 🔑 API Key Setup and 🛠️ Input Parameters, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder; calls python; needs BROWSERACT_API_KEY

What it does

Google News API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for news about a specific topic, tracking industry trends, monitoring public relations or sentiment, collecting competitor updates, getting latest reports on specific keywords, monitoring brand exposure in media, researching market hot topics, summarizing daily industry news, tracking media activities of specific individuals…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including scripts (for example `scripts/google_news_api.py`).

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Schema markup and Market research. The repository describes itself as: Browser automation CLI built for AI agents. Break through anti-bot walls, hand off to humans across platforms when stuck. Parallel multi-task execution, independent multi-session… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Schema markup
  • Tasks that involve Market research

Example prompts

  • “/google-news-api-skill”

Requirements

  • Python 3
  • A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. No Hallucinations: Pre-set workflows avoid AI generative hallucinations, ensuring stable and precise data extraction.
  2. No Captcha Issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP Restrictions: No need to handle regional IP restrictions or geofencing.
  4. Faster Execution: Tasks execute faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. Cost-Effective: Significantly lowers data acquisition costs compared to high-token-consuming AI solutions.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 11c057b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • browseract.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • BROWSERACT_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Google News API Skill loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 165 tokens; SKILL.md has 685 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~165
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from browser-act/skills at commit 11c057b, republished under its MIT licence (© browser-act). 685 words, ~1,498 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/google-news-api-skill/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
google-news-api-skill
description
This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Agent should proactively apply this skill when users express needs like searching for news about a specific topic, tracking industry trends, monitoring public relations or sentiment, collecting competitor updates, getting latest reports on specific keywords, monitoring brand exposure in media, researching market hot topics, summarizing daily industry news, tracking media activities of specific individuals, retrieving hot events from the past 24 hours, extracting structured data for market research, monitoring global breaking news.

Google News Automation Skill

📖 Introduction

This skill provides a one-stop news collection service using BrowserAct's Google News API template. It directly extracts structured news results from Google News, including headlines, sources, publication times, and article links. Simply input search keywords and time filters to get clean, usable news data.

✨ Features

  1. No Hallucinations: Pre-set workflows avoid AI generative hallucinations, ensuring stable and precise data extraction.
  2. No Captcha Issues: No need to handle reCAPTCHA or other verification challenges.
  3. No IP Restrictions: No need to handle regional IP restrictions or geofencing.
  4. Faster Execution: Tasks execute faster compared to pure AI-driven browser automation solutions.
  5. Cost-Effective: Significantly lowers data acquisition costs compared to high-token-consuming AI solutions.

🔑 API Key Setup

Before running, check the BROWSERACT_API_KEY environment variable. If not set, do not take other measures; ask and wait for the user to provide it. Agent must inform the user:

"Since you haven't configured the BrowserAct API Key, please visit the BrowserAct Console to get your Key."

🛠️ Input Parameters

Agent should flexibly configure the following parameters based on user needs:

  1. Search_Keywords (Search Keywords)

    • Type: string
    • Description: The content to search on Google News. Can be company names, industry terms, competitor names, etc.
    • Example: AI Startup, Tesla, SpaceX

  2. Publish_date (Time Range)

    • Type: string
    • Description: Filter news by publication time.
    • Options:
      • any time: No restriction
      • past hours: Past few hours (breaking news)
      • past 24 hours: Past 24 hours (daily monitoring)
      • past week: Past week (short-term trends)
      • past year: Past year (long-term research)
    • Default: past week

  3. Datelimit (Max Items)

    • Type: number
    • Description: Maximum number of news items to extract per task.
    • Default: 30
    • Suggestion: Use 10-30 for real-time monitoring; use larger values for deep research.

🚀 Usage

Agent should use the following independent script to achieve "one-line command result":

bash
# Example
python -u ./scripts/google_news_api.py "Search Keywords" "Publish Date" Quantity
⏳ Execution Monitoring

Since this task involves automated browser operations, it may take some time (several minutes). The script will continuously output status logs with timestamps (e.g., [14:30:05] Task Status: running). Agent Instructions:

  • While waiting for the script result, keep monitoring the terminal output.
  • As long as the terminal is outputting new status logs, the task is running normally; do not mistake it for a deadlock or unresponsiveness.
  • Only if the status remains unchanged for a long time or the script stops outputting without returning a result should you consider triggering the retry mechanism.

📊 Data Output

After successful execution, the script parses and prints results directly from the API response. Results include:

  • headline: News title
  • source: Publisher/Source
  • news_link: Article URL
  • published_time: Publication time
  • author: Author (if available)
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⚠️ Error Handling & Retry

If an error occurs during script execution (e.g., network fluctuations or task failure), the Agent should follow this logic:

  1. Check Output Content:

    • If the output contains "Invalid authorization", it means the API Key is invalid or expired. Do not retry; guide the user to re-check and provide the correct API Key.
    • If the output does not contain "Invalid authorization" but the task failed (e.g., output starts with Error: or returns empty results), the Agent should automatically try to re-execute the script once.

  2. Retry Limit:

    • Automatic retry is limited to one time. If the second attempt fails, stop retrying and report the specific error information to the user.

🌟 Typical Use Cases

  1. Industry Trend Tracking: Find the latest developments in fields like "Low-altitude economy" or "Generative AI".
  2. PR Monitoring: Monitor media exposure of a specific brand or company over the past 24 hours.
  3. Competitor Intelligence: Collect information on new products or marketing activities from competitors over the past week.
  4. Market Research: Get popular reports on specific keywords across different time dimensions.
  5. Figure Tracking: Retrieve the latest news reports on industry leaders or public figures.
  6. Daily News Summary: Automatically extract and summarize daily news in specific domains.
  7. Global Breaking News: Get real-time updates on major global events.
  8. Structured Data Extraction: Extract structured information like headlines, sources, and links for analysis.
  9. Media Exposure Analysis: Evaluate the propagation heat of a project or event in mainstream news media.
  10. Long-term Research: Retrieve all in-depth reports on a specific technical topic from the past year.

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in solutions/search-research/google-news-api-skill of browser-act/skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • scripts/google_news_api.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 11c057b

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in browser-act/skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Google News API Skill

What does Google News API Skill do?

This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API. Google News API Skill is an agent skill from browser-act/skills. This skill helps users automatically extract structured news data from Google News via BrowserAct API.

When should I use Google News API Skill?

Google News API Skill fits situations like: tasks that involve Schema markup; tasks that involve Market research.

How do I install Google News API Skill in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill google-news-api-skill -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/search-research/google-news-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .claude/skills/google-news-api-skill in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Google News API Skill in Codex?

Run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill google-news-api-skill -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (solutions/search-research/google-news-api-skill in browser-act/skills) into .agents/skills/google-news-api-skill in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Google News API Skill in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add browser-act/skills --skill google-news-api-skill -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/google-news-api-skill, .gemini/skills/google-news-api-skill, .github/skills/google-news-api-skill and .opencode/skills/google-news-api-skill in your project.

What does Google News API Skill need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Google News API Skill needs Python for the scripts in its folder, the command-line tools its instructions call (python) and credentials named BROWSERACT_API_KEY. Our summary lists: Python 3; A credential in BROWSERACT_API_KEY.

Does Google News API Skill access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: browseract.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Google News API Skill safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Google News API Skill use?

Google News API Skill is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Google News API Skill use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Google News API Skill?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Google News API Skill: SEO Geo (ReScienceLab/opc-skills, 1.8k stars), GEO-First SEO Audit Tool (zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude, 11k stars), Portaljs Add Dcat (datopian/portaljs, 2.4k stars) and Schema Markup (freekmurze/dotfiles, 1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Google News API Skill?

browser-act (a GitHub organization) maintains it in browser-act/skills, which has 6,114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 87 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 24, 2026.

Source: browser-act/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.