Google News Scraper & Monitor (Multi-Country)

Search Google News in 60+ countries and languages in one run and get clean news data: title, real publisher URL (not the news.google.com redirect), publisher, publication date, country, language and, optionally, the full article text. Built for brand and media monitoring, PR tracking, competitive intelligence, market research and feeding news into AI agents, spreadsheets or dashboards.

• 🌍 Many editions at once: search US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil and 50+ other Google News editions in one run. The same story found in several editions is returned once, with every edition listed.
• 🔗 Real article URLs included: Google News links are decoded to the publisher page (reuters.com/..., lemonde.fr/...) at no extra cost.
• 📈 Past the 100-results limit: Google News returns at most 100 articles per search. The actor splits the period into smaller date windows when a search is full, so you can export thousands of articles for a topic.
• 🔔 Only new articles: turn on monitoring, schedule the actor hourly or daily, and get only articles you have not received before. Runs with nothing new cost almost nothing.
• 📰 Topic headlines: also get the top stories of any section (Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports...) for each country.
• 📝 Full text add-on: extract the article body, description, author and main image from the publisher page.
• 💸 Pay only for results: no monthly fee, no proxy to configure, no API key.

What can you use it for?

Use case	How
Brand and reputation monitoring	Put your brand and product names in Search queries, pick your markets, turn on Only new articles, schedule it every hour. Send new articles to Slack, email or a Google Sheet with an Apify integration.
Competitor tracking	One query per competitor ("Competitor name"), every country where you sell.
PR and media coverage reports	Search your company name over a date range and export publisher, URL and date to Excel.
Market and trend research	Collect all articles on a topic over months with Go past the 100-results limit.
AI and RAG pipelines	Add Full article text and feed clean text to an LLM for summaries, sentiment or alerts. Works with the Apify MCP server, n8n, Make and Zapier.
Local news by country	Use the Nation or Top stories topic for each edition.

How to use it

1. Type one or more search queries. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:ft.com, intitle:.
2. Choose the countries and languages (editions) to search.
3. Choose a time range (last hour to last year) or a date range.
4. Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them through the API.

For news alerts: turn on Only new articles, give the monitor a name, and create a schedule (Console > Schedules) that runs it every hour or every day.

Example input

{
    "queries": ["\"Mistral AI\"", "OpenAI OR Anthropic"],
    "editions": ["US:en", "GB:en", "FR:fr", "DE:de"],
    "timeRange": "1d",
    "onlyNew": true,
    "monitorName": "ai-competitors",
    "fetchArticleText": false
}

Example output

{
    "id": "4f1c2a9e7b3d5a10",
    "title": "Mistral AI unveils new open model for enterprises",
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/...",
    "publisher": "Reuters",
    "publisherDomain": "reuters.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-24T09:12:00+00:00",
    "query": "\"Mistral AI\"",
    "topic": null,
    "country": "US",
    "countryName": "United States",
    "language": "en",
    "matchedQueries": ["\"Mistral AI\""],
    "matchedTopics": [],
    "editions": ["US:en", "GB:en"],
    "relatedArticles": [],
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-25T16:21:18+00:00"
}

With Full article text on, each article also gets text, description, author, imageUrl, articleDate and wordCount.

Output fields

Field	Description
title	Headline, without the " - Publisher" suffix Google adds
url	Original article URL on the publisher site
publisher, publisherDomain	News outlet name and domain
publishedAt	Publication date and time (UTC, ISO 8601)
query / topic	The search query or topic section that found the article
country, countryName, language	First edition where the article was found
editions, matchedQueries, matchedTopics	All editions, queries and topics that returned this same article
relatedArticles	For topic headlines: other outlets covering the same story
googleNewsUrl	The original Google News link
text, description, author, imageUrl, wordCount	Only with the full text add-on

A RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store shows how many feeds were read, how many duplicates were merged and how many articles were returned.

Pricing

Pay per event, no monthly rental:

• Article returned: $2 per 1,000 articles, real publisher URL included.
• Full text add-on: $1 per 1,000 articles where text was extracted (paywalled pages are not charged).
• A tiny start fee per run, so frequent monitoring schedules stay cheap.

Example: monitoring 5 brands in 4 countries every hour, with about 40 new articles a day, costs about $2.40 a month.

Set Max articles per run or a maximum cost per run to keep full control of your spend.

Tips

• Too many loose matches? Put names in quotes ("Acme Corp") or use Title must contain.
• Big historical export? Set a date range, keep Go past the 100-results limit on and raise Max articles per query and edition.
• Several clients? Use one Monitor name per client so their "already seen" memories stay separate.
• Rate limits? You do not need a proxy: the actor switches to Apify Proxy by itself if Google slows it down.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google News? The actor reads Google News' public RSS feeds and the public pages of publishers, the same information anyone sees in a browser. It collects no personal data beyond the author name printed on an article. You are responsible for how you use the content, in particular publisher copyright when you republish article text.

How fresh is the data? Live: every run reads Google News at that moment. New articles usually appear within minutes of publication.

Why do some articles have no url? In rare cases Google does not return the publisher link; the googleNewsUrl still opens the article.

Why do some articles have no text? Paywalled or script-only pages cannot be read. You are not charged the text add-on for them.

Can I get more than 100 results? Yes. That is what Go past the 100-results limit does, by splitting the date range when a search is full.

Questions or a missing feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab; we usually answer within a day.

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