World News in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Pull live headlines into a spreadsheet. Returns titles, summaries and sources by the row, auto-refreshing — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 6 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

news.xlsxsample data

A2fx=VERVE("news", "field", "date")

Date

A living headlines column

Pull current items into a column with =VERVE("news", "field", "date") and re-run it when you sit down to a briefing or monitoring sheet.

Annotate with context

Add World News beside a dataset to stamp rows with the events, holidays, or timing that explain them.

Filter what matters

Combine the result with FILTER or conditional formatting to surface only the entries you care about.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("news", "field", "date")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("news", "field", "date")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

category
Only stories on this topic. A story is in every topic its headline and summary name, not only its feed's section.
=VERVE("news", "category", "technology")
country
Only stories about this country, from any outlet: an ISO 3166 code or English name, for example JP or Japan.
=VERVE("news", "country", "JP")
edition
Only stories run by outlets based in this country: what its press is covering, in the languages it writes in. See list=editions.
=VERVE("news", "edition", "GB")
language
Only stories in this language. Defaults to English, or with edition to the languages that edition's press writes in. Stories are never translated.
=VERVE("news", "language", "es")
sort
top ranks stories by how many outlets carry them, favouring the last 12 hours; latest is newest first.
=VERVE("news", "sort", "top")
qPremium
Only stories whose headlines or summaries contain every word given, in any case.
=VERVE("news", "q", "chips")
sincePremium
Only stories published at or after this date or date-time (ISO 8601), for example 2026-10-01 or 2026-10-01T14:00:00Z.
=VERVE("news", "since", "2026-10-01")
limit
Maximum number of stories to return: up to 10 on the free plan, 50 on paid plans.
=VERVE("news", "limit", "10")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Date
=VERVE("news", "field", "date")
Languages
=VERVE("news", "field", "languages")
Last Updated
=VERVE("news", "field", "lastUpdated")
Article Count
=VERVE("news", "field", "articleCount")
Articles
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles")
Articles › Category
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.category")
Articles › Website
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.website")
Articles › Title
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.title")
Articles › Pub Date
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.pubDate")
Articles › Image
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.image")
Articles › Description
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.description")
Articles › Link
=VERVE("news", "field", "articles.0.link")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

World News, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull World News into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("news", "field", "date") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from World News?

World News returns date, languages, lastUpdated, articleCount and articles, plus 7 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what World News returns?

Yes — World News takes "category", "country", "edition" and "language", plus 4 more as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("news", "category", "technology") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of World News at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell and one call returns a value for every row, or drag =VERVE("news") down like any spreadsheet function.

How many credits does each World News cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 6 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does World News work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

World News

A living headlines column

Annotate with context

Filter what matters

World News, answered

Put World News in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

Scaling up?