Not supplied by this target
Google News: citations is not supplied
Google News supplies article links, not answer citations or a chatbot sources array.
Collection target: google_news. Field availability depends on the provider output shown below.
What this target supplies instead
Each article in googleNews.results or googleNews.topNews has a title and url alongside snippet, publisher, position and publishedAt. These are news result links, not evidence cited by a synthesized answer.
Not supplied by this target
The google_news target returns googleNews.results and googleNews.topNews. Article fields include title, url, snippet, publisher, position and publishedAt. Publication labels are provider text, such as 2 hours ago, not normalized timestamps. News collections can contain empty lists. Google Search and Google News share a task when requested together, while each target has its own outputs and failedRuns count.
Provider output examples
These are illustrative successful run excerpts, not full result files or calculated metrics. Submit POST /v1/crawl-jobs, track completion, then download the authenticated result. Outputs depend on the target; a chatbot has no news articles or Google position fields.
{
"runNumber": 1,
"runTaskId": "53b39f0d-9576-44d6-a796-45dbfbfcdbf3",
"status": "completed",
"capturedAt": "2026-10-09T10:01:00.000Z",
"pageUrl": "https://www.google.com/search?q=example&tbm=nws",
"googleNews": {
"results": [
{
"position": 1,
"publishedAt": "2 hours ago",
"publisher": "Example Publisher",
"snippet": "Illustrative article summary.",
"title": "Illustrative article title",
"url": "https://example.com/article"
}
],
"topNews": []
}
}Citations FAQ
- Does the API calculate citations?
- Each article in googleNews.results or googleNews.topNews has a title and url alongside snippet, publisher, position and publishedAt. These are news result links, not evidence cited by a synthesized answer.
- How should failed or empty collections be handled?
- Inspect per-target failedRuns and each successful run identity. Empty sources or null fields are valid output; a missing failed run is not an empty successful answer. A completed job can contain failed collections.
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