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

Give keywords and get the articles Google News shows: title, publisher, date, snippet and link. Up to 50 articles a keyword, 16 countries, a published-within filter for monitors, repeats across keywords removed. Data from the DataForSEO SERP API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/brightgro/google-news.md
- **Developed by:** [Brightgro LLC](https://apify.com/brightgro) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 articles

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/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

The articles Google News shows for your keywords, with the title, publisher, date, snippet and link of each. Use it to
monitor news about a company, a market or a topic, track press coverage, feed a finance or PR dashboard, or give AI
agents fresh news.

### Input

- **Keywords:** up to 100, for example `electric vehicles`.
- **Articles per keyword:** 10 to 50 (30 by default).
- **Country:** one of 16 Google News editions.
- **Published within:** any time (the default), or the past hour, day, week, month or year. For a daily monitor,
  schedule the actor with the past day.

### Output

One row per article: `keyword`, `country`, `period`, `position`, `title`, `domain` (the publisher's site), `published`, `age`,
`snippet`, `url`, `google_redirect`.

Google gives some articles only as its own redirect link. That link opens the article, but it hides the publisher, so
those rows have `google_redirect: true` and no `domain`.

### Pricing

$0.001 for each article, so 50 articles cost $0.05. There is no start fee. An article already returned for an earlier
keyword in the same run is left out and not charged, and a keyword with no articles gets one free row saying so.

### Data

From the DataForSEO SERP API (Google News). Results are what Google News shows at the time of the run. The articles
belong to their publishers. A long number in a text field that could be a payment card number is shown as
\[number hidden].

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

What you would search in Google News, up to 100, for example electric vehicles.

## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`):

10 to 50.

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

The Google News edition to search.

## `period` (type: `string`):

Only articles from this period, for example the past day for a daily monitor. Any means no time filter.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "country": "US",
  "period": "any"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Give keywords and get the articles Google News shows: title, publisher, date, snippet and link. Up to 50 articles a keyword, 16 countries, a published-within filter for monitors, repeats across keywords removed. Data from the DataForSEO SERP API.

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "electric vehicles"
    ],
    "maxArticles": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("brightgro/google-news").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 = {
    "keywords": ["electric vehicles"],
    "maxArticles": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("brightgro/google-news").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "maxArticles": 20
}' |
apify call brightgro/google-news --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/81sihTHeqYVTLrVI2/builds/8TgqtAbRloTRt4GoI/openapi.json