Wednesday, December 9, 2020
A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as demand grows. Today we're happy to announce some more updates coming your way:
- Addition of fresh data and news filter in the Search Console API
- Domain property support in the Sitemaps API
- Guidelines on how to migrate the Discovery doc
If you make your own calls to the API, read on.
Fresh data and news filter in the Search Console API
The Performance report already supports fresh data that is less than a day old. You can now access this data through the API by passing the request parameter
dataState with value set to all. The data you get for this value will also include fresh data that is not yet final. If you wish to get only final data,
you can either pass this parameter with value set to final or not pass it at all and you will get only final data by default.
A few months ago, we added a News tab on Search filter to the
Performance report. This information is now also available in the API, and you can access it by setting the value of searchType
parameter in the request to news.
Domain property support in the Sitemaps API
The Sitemaps API now supports domain properties, as other Search Console APIs already do. You can query, add, and delete your sitemaps on domain properties, for example:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/webmasters/v3/sites/sc-domain:example.com/sitemaps
Discovery doc migration
We'll drop the support in the Webmasters discovery document. If you're querying the Search Console API using an external API library, or querying the