# Google News Scraper (`alleserojje/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword or topic — clean structured articles with real publisher URLs, source, date and snippet. Pay only per article.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alleserojje/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Pedro Resende](https://apify.com/alleserojje) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 article scrapeds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Google News Scraper

**Google News Scraper** extracts news articles from Google News by keyword or topic and returns clean, structured JSON — title, source, publish date, snippet and the Google News article link. Search many keywords at once, in any language and country. Pay only for the articles you get.

### What this Google News scraper does

- Search Google News for **one or many keywords** in a single run.
- Or pull a built-in **topic section** (World, Business, Technology, Sports, Science, Health…).
- Works in **any language / country** via `hl`, `gl` and `ceid` (e.g. `en-US`, `pt-BR`, `es-419`).
- Cleanly splits the `Headline - Source` title into separate `title` and `source` fields.
- Normalises `publishedAt` to ISO 8601 and includes a plain-text `snippet`.
- Datacenter proxy is enough — no expensive residential proxy needed, so runs stay cheap.

> **A note on links.** Google News link ids are opaque redirect identifiers. This actor always returns the canonical `googleNewsUrl` (which opens the article in a browser). Turning on the optional **best-effort** `resolveUrls` will *try* to add a real publisher URL in a separate `resolvedUrl` field, but Google frequently does not allow this to be expanded — so it is off by default and never guessed.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `queries` | List of search terms. Empty → use `section` or top headlines. |
| `section` | Optional topic section (WORLD, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, …). |
| `language` | Language code `hl`, e.g. `en-US`, `pt-BR`. |
| `country` | Country code `gl`, e.g. `US`, `BR`. |
| `maxItems` | Cap on total articles (0 = no limit). |
| `resolveUrls` | Best-effort publisher-URL resolution (default `false`). |

### Output

Each dataset item:

```json
{
  "query": "bitcoin",
  "title": "Riot Platforms strikes deal with Anthropic…",
  "source": "CNBC",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi…",
  "resolvedUrl": null,
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-11T17:43:14.000Z",
  "snippet": "…",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T05:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

**Pay per event:** `$0.001` per article scraped. You are billed per article as it is delivered, so an aborted run only pays for what it returned. No monthly rental.

### Common uses

- Media monitoring & brand tracking across languages.
- Feeding a **RAG / LLM** pipeline with fresh, source-attributed news headlines.
- Building news datasets for research or trend analysis.

# Actor input Schema

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

One or more keywords/phrases to search Google News for. Leave empty to pull a topic section or the top headlines.

## `section` (type: `string`):

Instead of (or in addition to) a search, pull a Google News topic section.

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

Google News language code, e.g. en-US, pt-BR, es-419.

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

Google News country code, e.g. US, BR, GB.

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

Stop after this many articles across all feeds. 0 = no limit.

## `resolveUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Attempt to follow each Google News link to the real publisher URL and add it as a 'resolvedUrl' field. Best-effort only — Google News link ids are opaque and often cannot be expanded, so this adds latency and may frequently return nothing. Off by default; the canonical googleNewsUrl is always returned.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Datacenter proxy is enough for Google News and keeps cost near zero. Residential is unnecessary here.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "bitcoin",
    "openai"
  ],
  "section": "",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "resolveUrls": false,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": []
  }
}
```

# 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": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alleserojje/google-news-scraper").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": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alleserojje/google-news-scraper").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": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call alleserojje/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/10VZuGz6X3VMD5PNr/builds/4Q4qAUQsaLMByHImH/openapi.json