Google Search Console Search Analytics API recovers Discover and Google News knowledge with Regex help

Google added on the Search Analytics API Discover and Google News data from the Search Console, which was added to the web interface earlier this year. Google also added support for regex with the query and page dimensions.

As a reminder, in January the Google Search Console did one. added News performance report and 2019 added Google Discover reports to the Search Console and gained more data in February. But SEOS sought the data in the API. Also, Google added in April Regex support to the web interface.

These are all now available in the Search Analytics API. Google said that the searchType parameter, which previously allowed you to filter API calls by News, Video, Image, and Web, will be renamed to Type and will support two additional parameters: Discover (for Google Discover) and googleNews (for Google News ). Please note that although we have renamed the parameter to type, we still support the old name searchType.

In the Search Console performance reports, some metrics and dimensions are only compatible with some types of data. For example, queries and locations are not supported by the Google Discover report. In the same way, the API will return an error message if an unsupported dimension is requested.

With the new regex support in the API, you can also use it for query and page dimensions. Two new operators have been added to the existing match operations, including regex and excluding regex.

So this news caused a lot of confusion in the end, as not everything was live when it was announced:

Update: The rollout process is taking longer than expected, but we are working on it. We will update here again as soon as the rollout is complete. Sorry for the inconveniences!

– Google Search Center (@googlesearchc) October 25, 2021

But we are almost there:

Almost! pic.twitter.com/BXGLIin8ig

– Daniel Waisberg (@danielwaisberg) October 26, 2021

And now done:

And … the rollout is complete! Thanks for waiting and have fun with the new data 😉

– Google Search Center (@googlesearchc) October 26, 2021

Forum discussion at Twitter.