Discover Presence Checker
Discover Presence Checker
Did Google Discover actually surface this URL? Paste an article and find out: number of appearances, first and last detection, plus the title, source and category the feed used.
🇫🇷 French data only. This checks a corpus of French-language media in Google Discover & Google News. Non-French URLs will read “absent” by design.
How this tool works
You paste an article URL and the server asks a Google Discover and Google News monitoring service whether that exact address has been detected in the feed. You get back the number of times it appeared, the first and last detection, and the title, source and category the feed used for it.
Two important caveats, stated plainly. First, coverage is French-language media only, so an English-language article will almost always come back absent, which is expected and not a bug. Second, the match is on the exact URL: redirects, tracking parameters or a different path count as a different address. Results are cached on the server for 6 hours.
How the Discover Presence Checker works
Google Discover can send a site more traffic than organic search, and until now there was no free way to answer one very concrete question: has the feed actually surfaced this URL? This tool answers it. Paste an article URL and you get a straight verdict (detected or not) with the number of appearances, the first and last detection, and the title, source and category Google used.
What "present" actually means
Present means the Discover feed carried that address at least once: it was eligible, selected and shown to users. It does not mean the article earned clicks, and it is not a traffic estimate. It is the raw fact that Discover picked the URL up, the one thing Search Console does not expose per URL.
Exact-match behaviour
The lookup is on the exact address. A trailing slash, a campaign parameter, an uppercase path or a redirect to a different path all count as a different URL, so paste the canonical address Google would index. If in doubt, check both the clean URL and the one you shared.
French-language coverage
This data comes from a monitoring service that watches the Google Discover and Google News feeds of French-language media. An English-language or non-French article will normally come back absent. That is the corpus, not a fault of your page. Read the verdict as valid for the French feed.
Use it as a receipt
When a client campaign "worked", show the detection dates rather than a vague traffic line. When you re-publish an old article, check whether Discover re-picked it. When a competitor's piece goes big, confirm it actually travelled on Discover before copying the play.
Frequently asked questions
Does it cover every country?
No. The dataset is French-language media only, so treat every verdict as scoped to the French Discover feed.
Can it tell me how much traffic Discover sent?
No. It reports whether the URL was surfaced and how often, with detection dates, not sessions, clicks or impressions.
Why is my article absent?
Two usual reasons: the article is not in French, or the URL you pasted differs from the exact one Discover saw (slash, parameters, redirect).
How fresh is the answer?
Each result carries its first and last detection timestamps. Answers are cached for six hours to stay within the free quota.
Data source: GNewsalyzer, a Google Discover and Google News monitoring service. French-language media corpus only. Free API, called server-side.