5 Ways To Use Google News RSS Feeds

1. Find Your Preferred Google News RSS Feed

You’ve probably already set up Google News to show local news in your preferred language. At the bottom of the news page, you’ll see an RSS link. This link will give you a basic RSS feed for Google News, incorporating your chosen local news and language. Subscribe to this if you are happy to have lots of new updates.

For me, I get: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&output=rss

2. Find RSS Feeds For Google News Topics

Also at the bottom of the Google news page is a link to “About Feeds“, which shows you the various news topics and the RSS feeds to subscribe to them.

For instance, Sci-Tech is: http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=t&output=rss

3. Create A Google News Search RSS Feed

At the top of Google News is the all-familiar search bar. Plug in your search term there (using normal Google search formatting) and you’ll be presented with news on that subject. At the bottom of the page, you can see the RSS link where you can copy the RSS URL or subscribe to your feed.

For example, a basic news search for “Lemur”: http://news.google.com/news?q=lemurs&output=rss
A News search for “Lemur” with my preferred settings: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=lemur&cf=all&output=rss

4. Change Your RSS Feeds

In the previous examples, you can see topic=t is tech, while q=lemur is your search term. You can change ned=us to ned=uk if you prefer results from the UK, plus you can add hl=en if you want the results only in English. Since my Google News was already set up with my preferred settings, the search added those settings into the feed for me.

Either edit the RSS feed link manually or use Google’s advanced search features to add more search parameters to your news search.

For instance, limiting the search to the last month gives us:http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&as_scoring=r&as_maxm=2&q=lemur&as_qdr=m&as_drrb=q
&as_mind=29&as_minm=1&cf=all&as_maxd=28&output=rss