# Google News Search - Company, Brand & Topic News (`captainhandsome/google-news-search`) Actor

Search Google News for companies, people, products, and topics. Export headlines, publishers, timestamps, article links, source sites, and snippets.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/captainhandsome/google-news-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Joseph McRell](https://apify.com/captainhandsome) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.05 / 1,000 results

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **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 Search & Company News API

Search Google News for a company, person, product, industry, or topic and export clean, current news records. The Actor turns Google News RSS results into structured headlines, publisher names, timestamps, article links, source sites, and readable snippets for monitoring and analysis.

No API key, login, browser automation, or paid proxy is required.

### What data can I extract?

- Headline and article link
- Publisher name and publisher website
- Publication timestamp normalized to UTC
- Plain-text result snippet
- Search query, language, and country edition
- Feed identifier, retrieval time, and reproducible feed URL

Each row represents one Google News result returned for the selected edition and query.

### Input example

```json
{
  "query": "electric vehicle batteries",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "max_items": 25
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "query": "electric vehicle batteries",
  "title": "New battery design targets faster charging",
  "source_name": "Example News",
  "source_url": "https://example.com",
  "published_at": "2026-09-14T12:00:00Z",
  "article_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/example",
  "guid": "example-guid",
  "snippet": "Researchers announced a battery design intended to shorten charging times.",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-14T12:05:00Z",
  "feed_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=electric+vehicle+batteries&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen"
}
```

### Common use cases

- Company, competitor, and brand monitoring
- Product-launch and reputation intelligence
- Researching industries, people, and developing stories
- Feeding current-news records into AI agents and RAG systems
- Building alerting, editorial, and market-intelligence workflows

### Use with AI agents and MCP

The stable flat schema lets an agent retrieve current coverage, group stories by publisher, summarize a topic, or track mentions without parsing RSS or operating a browser. Use a specific query and a small `max_items` for fast interactive workflows.

### Pricing and cost control

Output is billed per result at **$0.0015 per result** (about $1.50 per 1,000 results), plus a $0.0005 Actor-start charge billed once per gigabyte of memory at run start. Use `max_items` to cap both output volume and charges. The price shown on the Apify Store listing is authoritative.

### Reliability

The Actor retrieves Google News RSS directly, retries temporary transport, rate-limit, and service failures, validates the XML response, normalizes timestamps, strips snippet markup, deduplicates records, and never emits more rows than requested. Persistent upstream failures fail visibly.

### Limitations and responsible use

- Google determines ranking, coverage, publisher attribution, and update timing.
- Result links can be Google News redirect URLs rather than direct publisher URLs.
- RSS search normally returns up to about 100 items and does not provide exhaustive archives.
- The same underlying story can appear from several publishers.
- Respect publisher rights and applicable Google terms when storing or republishing content.

### Turn this into a company-news monitor

1. Save one focused Task per company, competitor, executive, product, or topic.
2. Schedule it daily or weekly with a bounded `max_items` value.
3. Add an `ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED` Task webhook or integration and use `resource.defaultDatasetId` to trigger summarization, deduplication, notification, or archival workflows.

Related fleet tools: [SEC EDGAR Filings Search](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/sec-edgar-filings-search) provides official company filings, [GLEIF LEI Search](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/gleif-lei-search) provides legal-entity identities, and [USAspending Federal Awards](https://apify.com/captainhandsome/usaspending-federal-awards) tracks awarded federal money.

### FAQ

#### Can I monitor a company name?

Yes. Use the company or a quoted company name as the query and schedule the Actor for recurring runs.

#### Does this scrape full article text?

No. It returns Google News result metadata and snippets, not publisher article bodies.

#### Can I select another country or language?

Yes. Set the two-letter `country` and `language` codes for the desired Google News edition.

#### Why are some article URLs on news.google.com?

Google News supplies redirect links in its feed. The record also includes the publisher's source website when the feed provides it.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Company, person, topic, product, or quoted phrase to search in Google News.

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

Two-letter language code for the Google News edition, for example en, es, de, or fr.

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

Two-letter country code for the Google News edition, for example US, GB, DE, or FR.

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

Hard limit on news records saved to the dataset.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "max_items": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One flat row per Google News result.

# 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 = {
    "query": "artificial intelligence"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("captainhandsome/google-news-search").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 = { "query": "artificial intelligence" }

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

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/ZjjSRKnVL6sLkBO53/builds/9yN8ZdLSch5ubbyk1/openapi.json