Google News Scraper + GDELT - News Search, No Start Fee

✅ Tested daily with its default input (Apify's automated QA plus our own smoke test before every release).

Google News scraper plus GDELT: search worldwide news by keyword and get clean, deduplicated results: title, URL, source, publish date, language and country. Any Google News language/country edition, time filter from 1 hour to 30 days. $0.002 per article, no start fee.

Why this Actor

• No start fee: you pay only $0.002 per article. 100 articles = $0.20.
• Any language, any country: language + country select the Google News edition (e.g. nl + NL).
• Time filter: last hour, 24h, 7 days, 30 days.
• Deduplicated across sources and queries.
• Schedule it (every hour/day) and send results to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook.

Input

queries (list), language (default en), country (default US), timespan (e.g. 24h, 7d), maxItemsPerQuery (default 100), sources (googlenews, optional gdelt).

Output

{"title": "...", "url": "https://...", "source": "Reuters", "publishedAt": "2026-10-20T12:02:16+00:00", "language": "en", "country": "US", "query": "bitcoin", "feed": "googlenews"}

Pricing

$0.002 per article returned. No start fee, no subscription.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor can be used as a tool by AI agents (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, other MCP clients) through the official Apify MCP server:

• Add only this Actor as a tool: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=admirala/news-search-google-gdelt (sign in with OAuth or an Apify API token).
• Or connect https://mcp.apify.com and let the agent find it with search-actors (e.g. "google news"), read the input schema with fetch-actor-details and run it with call-actor.

Example input an agent can pass:

{
  "queries": [
    "bitcoin"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "timespan": "24h",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50
}

Cost per call: $0.002 per article returned, no start fee. Results come back as dataset items (get-dataset-items).

FAQ

How do I scrape Google News for a keyword? Put the keyword in queries, choose language, country and timespan.

Can I get news in Dutch, German or another language? Yes, e.g. language: nl + country: NL selects the Dutch Google News edition.

What is GDELT? A global news database covering 65 languages; add gdelt to sources for extra coverage (slower, rate-limited).

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