# Google News Breaking Headlines and Topic Radar (`adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar`) Actor

Scrape Google News breaking headlines, custom keyword searches, topic feeds, and publisher sources worldwide with zero proxies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar.md
- **Developed by:** [Darim Quraishi](https://apify.com/adaptive_nightmare) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.85 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google News Headlines and Search Scraper

Extract top news headlines, keyword search results, topic categories, and publisher sources from Google News across regional editions.

### Features

- Pulls breaking top headlines as they happen.
- Searches by custom keywords, company names, or industry topics.
- Supports topic sections including Technology, Business, Science, Health, and World.
- Allows localization by country code and language code.
- Extracts article titles, publisher names, publisher links, and publication timestamps.
- Operates proxy-free using public Google News RSS endpoints.

### Input parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mode` | String | `"search"` | `search` (keywords), `headlines` (top stories), or `topics` (categories). |
| `queries` | Array | `["Artificial Intelligence", "Nvidia"]` | Search keywords when `mode` is `search`. |
| `topics` | Array | `["TECHNOLOGY", "BUSINESS"]` | Topic sections when `mode` is `topics`. |
| `country` | String | `"US"` | 2-letter country code for regional news. |
| `language` | String | `"en-US"` | Language code for news feed. |
| `maxItems` | Integer | `50` | Maximum news articles to output into the dataset. |

### Output format

`json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["Artificial Intelligence", "Nvidia"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en-US",
  "maxItems": 50
}
`

### Use cases

- Brand and PR monitoring: Track news mentions of companies, products, or executives.
- Market intelligence: Follow macroeconomic events and regulatory updates.
- Competitive tracking: Monitor competitor announcements and press coverage.
- News aggregation: Build automated news feeds for vertical industry audiences.

### Pricing and efficiency

- Typical runtime: 2 to 4 seconds per execution.
- Zero proxy costs: Runs over public REST and RSS endpoints without residential proxy pools.
- Suitable for scheduled runs and continuous monitoring under standard platform limits.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose whether to search by keywords, get top breaking headlines, or follow specific topic categories.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords, companies, or events to track (e.g. 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Nvidia', 'Bitcoin', 'SpaceX') when Mode is 'search'.

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Topic sections when Mode is 'topics': TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS, SCIENCE, HEALTH, SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT, WORLD.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code for localized news (e.g. US, GB, CA, AU, IN, DE).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code for localized news (e.g. en-US, en-GB, fr, de, es).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total articles to output into the dataset.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": [
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Nvidia"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "TECHNOLOGY",
    "BUSINESS"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en-US",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,adaptive_nightmare/google-news-trending-radar"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/G3gG5091swsxtDypq/builds/h4VerKR0EU62s12kY/openapi.json