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I am recently working on web scraping of Google News and dealing with the URL format. I have same question of this post about the meaning of ceid.

For example the link from the post: https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=studie&hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE:de

I know hl = host language, gl = for the search results whose country of origin matches the parameter value, but I can't find what ceid for. If I cut that part of the search link, it is unable to show the result, so obviously it is a must part.

So what's the meaning and the purpose of the "ceid"?

Many thanks.

dragonfly
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    it's a good question. Should be answered by Google..., but it does not appear to be a necessary field. Yet, I'll include it anyway. – jsfa11 Sep 09 '20 at 21:56
  • @jsfa11, I did some searching in Google but it doesn't explain clearly. – dragonfly Sep 13 '20 at 22:13
  • It's refer to country and language another uris like your uri https://news.google.com/topstories?ceid=US:en&gl=US&hs=es-es&pz=1&hl=en-US - and https://news.google.com/foryou?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en – JS_INF Jul 22 '21 at 04:01

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It might mean the country name and show the results according to the common language of the country.

For example: 'ceid=IN:en' means the country as "India", and hence the result should show up in English.

Barath Mohan
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