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Google Light Top Stories API

SerpApi is able to scrape, extract, and make sense of top stories results for certain search queries.

When SerpApi encounters top stories results, we add them to our JSON output as the array top_stories.

For each top stories result, we are able to extract its title, link, thumbnail, source, and date.


The API endpoint is https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google_light

Head to the playground for a live and interactive demo.

API Examples

Example with q: Elon Musk

Example with q: Elon Musk

JSON Example

{
  "top_stories": [
    {
      "title": "Huge solar storm impacting Starlink satellites, 'degraded service' reported: Musk",
      "link": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/huge-solar-storm-impacting-starlink-satellites-degraded-service-reported-musk&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjNqbjfnIuGAxWgQjABHam8CSoQ0PADegQIBBAD&usg=AOvVaw3GmhRqr4AwSF5Xhj86Y4FZ",
      "thumbnail": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDTI3O-Wu9OKN7f6SvKTkpaYVyZe03pkRsxNICrGXx8YeXM8HOY6r5sL17QA&s",
      "source": "Fox Business",
      "date": "2 days ago"
    },
    {
      "title": "Elon Musk weighs in on the encryption wars between Telegram and Signal",
      "link": "https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-encrypted-messenger-app-wars-telegram-signal-2024-5&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjNqbjfnIuGAxWgQjABHam8CSoQ0PADegQIBBAH&usg=AOvVaw3KgbKHDVAealB74LM7UbXy",
      "thumbnail": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaP8dtPhb2j24-YjoKcm4Ih5hvUmku4nPauaHVlaTpjmLAInH1-xcbktvCAg&s",
      "source": "Business Insider",
      "date": "17 hours ago"
    },
    {
      "title": "Elon Musk's Diplomacy: Woo Right-Wing World Leaders. Then Benefit.",
      "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/technology/elon-musk-world-leaders.html&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjNqbjfnIuGAxWgQjABHam8CSoQ0PADegQIBBAL&usg=AOvVaw1NkcpEvnNZIPkF5MavLJqQ",
      "thumbnail": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbIzkomqNellnoottaemTy7llcjXw2e9a8jkzUkjuPYAJ1Zi-KkfWmjSwlg__6&s",
      "source": "The New York Times",
      "date": "1 day ago"
    },
    ...
  ]
}

JSON structure overview 

{
  "top_stories": [
    {
      "title": "String - Title of the result",
      "link": "String - URL of the result",
      "thumbnail": "String - Thumbnail image of the result",
      "source": "String - Source of the result",
      "date": "String - Date of the result"
    },
  ],
}