Google News Scraper for Monitoring & Alerts

Monitor Google News for brand mentions, competitor activity, and topic coverage across any keyword. Whether you need daily PR clipping, real-time crisis monitoring, or trend research, this actor delivers structured article data from Google News RSS feeds without heavy DOM scraping. Schedule it hourly on Apify to build a continuous news intelligence pipeline.

Features

• Keyword monitoring — search Google News by any query and get matching articles
• Bulk queries — process multiple search terms in a single run
• Publisher extraction — automatically parses the source publisher from each headline
• Language targeting — filter results by language and region (e.g. en-US, de-DE, uk-UA)
• Structured output — every article includes title, link, publisher, and publication date
• No browser needed — queries official Google News RSS endpoints for fast, reliable results
• Pay-per-result pricing — only pay for articles found, with charge-limit safety built in

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
queries	array	Yes	—	List of search keywords to monitor (e.g. artificial intelligence, Tesla earnings)
maxItems	integer	No	50	Maximum number of articles to return per query (1-100)
language	string	No	en-US	Language and region code for results (e.g. en-US, de-DE, fr-FR)

Input Example

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "OpenAI funding"],
  "maxItems": 25,
  "language": "en-US"
}

Output

Each dataset item represents one news article. Key fields:

• query (string) — the search term that matched this article
• title (string) — article headline
• link (string) — URL to the full article
• publisher (string) — name of the publishing outlet
• pubDate (string) — publication date in ISO format

Output Example

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "Google DeepMind unveils new AI model for protein folding",
  "link": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-deepmind-ai-protein-2025-01-15/",
  "publisher": "Reuters",
  "pubDate": "Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:30:00 GMT"
}

Pricing

Event	Cost
Article Found	Pay-per-event (see actor pricing page)

Use Cases

• PR & brand monitoring — track mentions of your company or product across news outlets daily
• Competitive intelligence — monitor competitor launches, funding rounds, and press coverage
• Market research — gather news sentiment data on industries, trends, or emerging technologies
• Crisis detection — schedule hourly runs to catch negative coverage early
• Content curation — feed article data into newsletters, dashboards, or Slack channels
• AI/LLM pipelines — supply fresh news context to RAG applications and AI agents

Related Actors

Actor	What it adds
RSS & Atom Feed Parser	Parse any RSS/Atom feed beyond Google News
Hacker News Scraper	Track tech community discussions and trending topics
Wayback Machine Scraper	Retrieve historical versions of articles and pages

Notes

• Google News RSS feeds are public but may rate-limit aggressive usage. Space scheduled runs at least 15 minutes apart for best reliability.
• Results depend on Google News indexing; very recent articles (under ~5 minutes old) may not appear immediately.