# Google News Scraper + GDELT - News Search, No Start Fee (`admirala/news-search-google-gdelt`) Actor

Google News scraper and GDELT news search by keyword: title, URL, source, publish date, language and country, deduplicated. Any language or country edition. $0.002 per article.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/admirala/news-search-google-gdelt.md
- **Developed by:** [Ja doei](https://apify.com/admirala) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 per news articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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 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

```json
{"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](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp):

- 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:

```json
{
  "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).

### Related actors

- RSS Feed Reader - RSS & Atom to JSON (bulk, auto-discovery) (coming soon to Apify Store)

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords or phrases to search, e.g. \["bitcoin", ""electric vehicles""]. $0.002 per article returned.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

News sources: 'googlenews' (default, fast) and/or 'gdelt' (65 languages, rate-limited and slower).

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

ISO 639-1 language code of the Google News edition, e.g. 'en', 'nl', 'de'.

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

ISO country code of the Google News edition, e.g. 'US', 'NL', 'DE'.

## `timespan` (type: `string`):

How far back to search: e.g. '1h', '24h', '7d', '30d'.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Maximum articles per query (up to 350). Caps cost at $0.002 x this number per query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "bitcoin"
  ],
  "sources": [
    "googlenews"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "timespan": "7d",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "bitcoin"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("admirala/news-search-google-gdelt").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 = { "queries": ["bitcoin"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("admirala/news-search-google-gdelt").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "bitcoin"
  ]
}' |
apify call admirala/news-search-google-gdelt --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/YJmb0HHUZ3azdBFrs/builds/pGbaJu9aessVMY2B2/openapi.json