# Sales Triggers: Funding and Expansion News

**Use case:** 

Sales and business development teams use this to find companies at the moment they have budget or a new market. It searches for funding rounds and expansion announcements from the past week and returns the real article link for each. Pull the company names from the headlines and reach out while the news is fresh. Cost: 200 articles with publisher URLs at $0.0025 = at most $0.50 a run.

## Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "fintech raises \"Series B\"",
    "saas \"expands into\" europe"
  ],
  "includeTopStories": false,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "splitByDay": false,
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "resolvePublisherUrls": true,
  "clusterStories": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "source": {
    "label": "Source"
  },
  "rank": {
    "label": "Rank"
  },
  "title": {
    "label": "Title"
  },
  "sourceName": {
    "label": "Source name"
  },
  "publishedAt": {
    "label": "Published at"
  },
  "articleUrl": {
    "label": "Article url"
  },
  "googleNewsUrl": {
    "label": "Google news url"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Google News Scraper & API: Real Publisher URLs Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Sales Triggers: Funding and Expansion News". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/mwJ6NVeSAvKDeMKQi) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Sales Triggers: Funding and Expansion News" task

The Google News Scraper & API: Real Publisher URLs Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like search queries, include top stories, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Sales Triggers: Funding and Expansion News" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as source, rank, title, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Sales Triggers: Funding and Expansion News" task via API](https://apify.com/brainfoods_studio/google-news-scraper.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google News Scraper & API: Real Publisher URLs](https://apify.com/brainfoods_studio/google-news-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/brainfoods_studio/google-news-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/brainfoods_studio/google-news-scraper.md

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`).