# Changelog of Google News Scraper & API — Headlines, Topics & Local News (`aaronoptimus/google-news-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aaronoptimus/google-news-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/aaronoptimus/google-news-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 1.0 — October 2026

First release.

- Front page, topic sections, local news and pasted news.google.com links (section, publication and "Full coverage" pages), in 50+ editions.
- No keyword search: Google News answers HTTP 429 to automated /search requests, also on residential IPs (live tests 2026-10-06). Search terms and pasted search links are reported as skipped. The search code stays behind the NEWS_ENABLE_SEARCH=1 environment variable.
- The real publisher URL on every article, read from the Google News page itself (no extra requests).
- Time ranges and From/To dates, applied by publish time.
- Duplicates removed across sources and editions; duplicates, empty pages and refused pages are free.
- Only new articles: a named monitor remembers delivered articles for 120 days so scheduled runs return only new ones.
- A page whose article links can't be read is reported as a failure instead of "no results".
- Pages Google refuses on datacenter IPs are retried through residential IPs; later pages of that kind start there. The price per article doesn't change.
- README: related tools now link all nine Actors, Google Sheets named among the integrations, Support heading.
- Listing for headlines, topics and local news; per-article price by Apify plan (Free $0.0012, Starter $0.001, Scale $0.0009, Business $0.0008); smaller prefilled example (about 40 articles).
- Pay per article delivered; progress saved before every charge; maximum cost per run respected; migration-safe.