Google News Scraper: Company News Alerts by Keyword
Pricing
from $0.50 / 1,000 article returneds
Google News scraper to monitor a keyword or track press coverage of competitors. Give it a list of keywords (or site:domain.com) and get one row per article: headline, source, publish date, link, snippet. Only-new-articles mode for daily alerts to Slack or Google Sheets, or runs from n8n or Make.
query
Required
The input item that was looked up.
found
Required
Whether a result was found. false rows are never charged.
status
Required
'OK' when found, or a reason code (NOT_FOUND / BAD_FORMAT / BLOCKED / REQUEST_FAILED) when not.
message
Optional
Plain-English explanation of the status, present on rows where nothing was found.
scrapedAt
Required
ISO timestamp of extraction.
articleCount
Optional
Articles found
articles
Optional
All articles (full list)
articleId
Optional
Article ID
title
Optional
Article title
sourceName
Optional
Source
publishedAt
Optional
Published (ISO timestamp).
url
Optional
Article link (URL).
snippet
Optional
Snippet
isNew
Optional
Is this article new?
firstSeenAt
Optional
First seen on a run (ISO timestamp).
matchedQueries
Optional
Every search line in this run whose results contained this article. With 'One row per article across searches' on, an article two searches both find is returned once, under the first of them, and lists both here.
storyId
Optional
Articles about the same event share one story ID: titles are matched by their words, so Reuters and NBC running the same news under different headlines land in one story.
storySize
Optional
How many different outlets Google News lists for this article's story in this search, counted across everything Google returned for the search, not only the articles you are billed for.
isLeadArticle
Optional
True for the earliest-published article of its story.
storyCount
Optional
How many distinct stories the articles returned for this search belong to.
topStories
Optional
Up to 5 stories among the returned articles that more than one outlet ran, biggest first: title, storySize, firstPublishedAt and up to 5 outlets.
newArticleCount
Optional
Monitoring only (null otherwise). Articles for this search that no earlier run returned, counted before 'Max articles per search' cuts the list.
avgNewPerRun
Optional
Monitoring only. The average of newArticleCount over this search's last runs (up to 14, the first run excluded). null until 3 earlier runs exist.
spike
Optional
Monitoring only. True when this run has at least 5 new articles and at least twice the usual number.
