# Google News Scraper (Real Publisher URLs, Date Ranges) (`blond_terrarium/google-news-scraper-decoded-urls`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or Google News URL in any country/language. Every article includes its real decoded publisher URL, source, publish date and related coverage. Date ranges get past Google's 100-result cap. Pay only for articles with a decoded URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blond_terrarium/google-news-scraper-decoded-urls.md
- **Developed by:** [Mogul Tools](https://apify.com/blond_terrarium) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 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.
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?

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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?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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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 (Real Publisher URLs, Date Ranges, Topics)

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or Google News URL, and get the **real publisher link** for every article (nytimes.com/..., reuters.com/...) instead of a `news.google.com/rss/articles/...` redirect. URL decoding is **included in the price**, with no extra "URL resolved" event. Use date ranges to go past Google's ~100-results-per-search cap, pull many countries and languages at once, and optionally add the article's image, description and author. **You only pay for articles with a decoded publisher URL.** Failed inputs, empty searches and articles that couldn't be decoded are free.

### Use cases

- **Media monitoring and PR:** track every mention of a brand, person or competitor, with the original source link.
- **Market and investment research:** news flow for tickers, companies or sectors, by day.
- **AI, RAG and sentiment pipelines:** clean, deduplicated headlines with real URLs, ready to fetch or summarise.
- **SEO and content research:** see which publishers rank in Google News for a topic and in which countries.
- **Newsletters and dashboards:** daily top stories or topic feeds (Business, Technology, Health...) per country.

### Input

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `queries` | – | Keywords, one per line. Google News operators work: `"exact phrase"`, `OR`, `-exclude`, `site:reuters.com`, `intitle:`. |
| `topics` | – | `TOP` (top stories), `WORLD`, `NATION`, `BUSINESS`, `TECHNOLOGY`, `ENTERTAINMENT`, `SPORTS`, `SCIENCE`, `HEALTH`. |
| `startUrls` | – | Any Google News search, topic, publication or local-news URL (web or RSS). The edition in the URL (`hl`/`gl`/`ceid`) is kept. Single article URLs aren't supported. |
| `editions` | `["US:en"]` | Country:language, for example `GB:en`, `DE:de`, `FR:fr`, `JP:ja`, `BR:pt-419`, `IN:hi`. Each query or topic runs once per edition. |
| `timeRange` | `any` | `1h`, `12h`, `1d`, `7d`, `30d`, `1y` (queries only). |
| `dateFrom` / `dateTo` | – | `YYYY-MM-DD`. Splits each query into one search per day, newest first, so you get up to ~100 articles **per day** instead of ~100 in total. `dateTo` alone means the 7 days before it. |
| `maxArticlesPerQuery` | 100 | Per query, topic or URL, per edition. 0 = no limit. |
| `decodeUrls` | true | Resolves the real publisher URL. If you turn it off, every row is free and you only get Google News links. |
| `fetchArticleDetails` | false | Opens each publisher page (first 512 KB) for `imageUrl`, `description`, `author`, `articlePublishedAt`, `canonicalUrl`, `articleLanguage` and `keywords`. Best effort: some sites block bots. |
| `includeRelated` | true | Adds Google's "related coverage" cluster (other outlets on the same story) where Google provides it, mostly on top stories. |
| `deduplicate` | true | Each article appears once per run, even if several queries or editions find it. |
| `includeFailedRows` | true | One free row per input that failed, with the reason. |
| `maxChargedArticles` | 0 (no limit) | Hard stop on the number of charged articles. |
| `maxConcurrency` / `requestDelayMs` | 4 / 300 | Polite pacing, with automatic backoff on 429, 503 or captcha pages. |

Example:

```json
{ "queries": ["openai", "\"electric vehicles\" -tesla"], "topics": ["BUSINESS"], "editions": ["US:en", "DE:de"], "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-07", "maxArticlesPerQuery": 500 }
```

### Output (one row per article, abridged)

```json
{
  "rowType": "article",
  "status": "OK",
  "query": null,
  "topic": "TOP",
  "edition": "US:en",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "María Corina Machado Returns to Venezuela",
  "source": "The New York Times",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T17:39:06.000Z",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/world/americas/machado-venezuela-return.html",
  "articleDomain": "nytimes.com",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihgFBVV9...?oc=5",
  "urlDecoded": true,
  "relatedArticles": [{ "title": "Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado makes surprise return home...", "source": "Fox News", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..." }],
  "charged": true
}
```

Every row has the same fields: `language`, `country`, `dateWindow`, `ampUrl`, `googleNewsId`, `inputUrl`, `scrapedAt`, and the detail fields, which are `null` unless `fetchArticleDetails` is on.

**Free rows:**

- `URL_NOT_DECODED`: Google returned no publisher URL. The row still has the title, source, date and Google News link.
- `INVALID_INPUT`: bad edition, unknown topic, a non-Google-News URL or a single-article URL.
- `NO_RESULTS`: the search returned nothing.
- `BLOCKED`, `RATE_LIMITED`, `HTTP_xxx`: Google refused the feed.

The `RUN_SUMMARY` key-value record holds totals, duplicates skipped, failures by reason and request stats.

### Pricing (pay per event)

One `article` event per unique article returned **with its real publisher URL**. Nothing else is charged: no start fee, no extra URL-resolution fee, and no fee for details.

| Tier | Per article | Per 1,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| FREE | $0.003 | $3.00 |
| BRONZE | $0.0025 | $2.50 |
| SILVER | $0.002 | $2.00 |
| GOLD | $0.0015 | $1.50 |

The run stops cleanly when it reaches your max total charge or `maxChargedArticles` and stops decoding new articles once the limit is hit. 1,000 articles take about 5–6 minutes at the default 512 MB.

### Limitations

- Google News returns at most ~100 articles per search, ~70 per topic and ~38 top stories. Use `dateFrom`/`dateTo` (about 100 per day) and several editions or narrower queries to get more.
- In date mode, Google applies day boundaries in US Pacific time, and older articles often carry a day-level timestamp (07:00 UTC). Date ranges apply to `queries`, not to `startUrls` or topics.
- URL decoding uses the same public lookup Google News's own site uses. If Google changes it, the affected rows come back free as `URL_NOT_DECODED` rather than failing the run.
- Very large runs (tens of thousands of articles) can be rate-limited by Google. The Actor backs off and retries, and anything still refused is a free row.
- `fetchArticleDetails` depends on each publisher: sites behind Cloudflare or paywalls may return no details. The article is still delivered and charged once at the same price.
- Only public data is collected, with no login. The Actor returns headlines, metadata and links, not full article text. Respect publishers' copyright and Google's terms when you reuse the data.

# Actor input Schema

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

One per line. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:. Each query returns up to ~100 articles per feed; use a date range to get more.

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

Google News sections for each edition. Top stories include related coverage clusters.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

news.google.com search, topic, publication, local (geo) or story URLs, web or RSS form. The URL's own ceid/edition is respected.

## `editions` (type: `array`):

One per line, Google's ceid format: US:en, GB:en, IN:en, CA:fr, DE:de, FR:fr, ES:es, MX:es-419, BR:pt-419, JP:ja, IT:it… Every query/topic runs in every edition.

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Applied to search queries (Google's when: operator). Ignored when a date range is set.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD or relative like "30 days". With a date range, each query is searched day by day (newest first), so you can get far more than 100 articles per query. Only dateTo set = the 7 days up to it.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). Default: today.

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Per query and edition, across all day windows. 0 = no limit.

## `decodeUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Resolve each news.google.com link to the publisher's article URL. Articles that can't be decoded are written free (status URL_NOT_DECODED).

## `fetchArticleDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Visit each publisher page (head only, ≤512 KB) for og:image, description, author, publish time, canonical URL. Best effort: paywalls/bot walls leave these empty. Slower; same price.

## `includeRelated` (type: `boolean`):

Other outlets' coverage of the same story (mostly on Top stories / topic feeds).

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Each article is returned and charged once per run.

## `includeFailedRows` (type: `boolean`):

One free row per input that returned nothing, and per undecoded article, with the reason.

## `maxChargedArticles` (type: `integer`):

Hard stop on charged articles (0 = no limit). The run also stops at your Max total charge.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests (Google News requests are also paced).

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Polite pacing; raised automatically on 429/503.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Timeout in seconds for each HTTP request to Google News or a publisher page.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed normally. Apify datacenter proxy can be used if Google rate-limits; residential proxy is not supported.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "editions": [
    "US:en"
  ],
  "timeRange": "any",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "fetchArticleDetails": false,
  "includeRelated": true,
  "deduplicate": true,
  "includeFailedRows": true,
  "maxChargedArticles": 0,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "requestDelayMs": 300,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Title, source, publish date, real publisher URL and query per article.

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

Every row incl. related coverage, image/description/author and free error rows.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Totals: articles charged, duplicates, undecoded and failed inputs by reason (not charged), request stats.

# 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"
    ],
    "editions": [
        "US:en"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blond_terrarium/google-news-scraper-decoded-urls").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"],
    "editions": ["US:en"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blond_terrarium/google-news-scraper-decoded-urls").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"
  ],
  "editions": [
    "US:en"
  ]
}' |
apify call blond_terrarium/google-news-scraper-decoded-urls --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/Vj0iEO2t6iibcdsUI/builds/zPE4GGsoqoQk9BFmt/openapi.json