# Google News Scraper: Real URLs, 60+ Countries & Alerts (`clearfeed-data/google-news-monitor`) Actor

Google News scraper and API: search Google News in 60+ countries and languages in one run and get real publisher URLs, dates, sources and optional full text. Goes past the 100-results limit, merges duplicates, and returns only new articles for news alerts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/clearfeed-data/google-news-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Clearfeed Data](https://apify.com/clearfeed-data) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 article returneds

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?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "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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# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords, company or brand names to search on Google News. Google operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:lemonde.fr, intitle:. Leave empty if you only want topic headlines.

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

Optional: also get the top stories of these Google News sections in each edition. TOP = the edition's front page.

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

Google News editions to search, all in one run. The same story found in several editions is returned once, with all its editions listed.

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

How recent the articles must be. Ignored if you set a date range below.

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

Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Use with 'To date' to get historical news. Overrides 'Time range'.

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

Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD), included. Empty = today.

## `splitDateRange` (type: `boolean`):

Google News returns at most 100 articles per search. When a search is full, split the period into smaller date windows to collect more, up to 'Max articles per query'.

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

Cap for each search query in each edition. Raise it (with the 100-results option on) for big historical exports.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Total cap for the run, after duplicates are merged. 0 = no cap. You are only charged for articles returned.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Return only articles not returned by previous runs with the same monitor name. Schedule the actor hourly or daily for news alerts: runs with nothing new cost almost nothing.

## `monitorName` (type: `string`):

Keeps separate memories for different monitors (for example one per client or brand).

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

Decode news.google.com links to the original article URL (lemonde.fr/..., reuters.com/...). Included in the article price.

## `fetchArticleText` (type: `boolean`):

Open each publisher page and extract the article text, description, author and main image. Charged as an extra add-on per article with text found; paywalled pages return no text and are not charged for it.

## `titleMustContain` (type: `array`):

Keep only articles whose title contains at least one of these words (accents and case ignored). Useful to drop loose matches.

## `excludePublishers` (type: `array`):

Publisher names or domains to drop, for example yahoo.com or MSN.

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

Not needed in most cases: the actor switches to Apify Proxy by itself if Google starts rate limiting.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "\"Mistral AI\""
  ],
  "editions": [
    "US:en",
    "GB:en",
    "FR:fr",
    "DE:de"
  ],
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "splitDateRange": true,
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "monitorName": "default",
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "fetchArticleText": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

All news articles returned by this run, one row per article.

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

Feeds read, articles found, duplicates merged, articles returned.

# 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",
        "\"Mistral AI\""
    ],
    "editions": [
        "US:en",
        "GB:en",
        "FR:fr",
        "DE:de"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("clearfeed-data/google-news-monitor").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",
        "\"Mistral AI\"",
    ],
    "editions": [
        "US:en",
        "GB:en",
        "FR:fr",
        "DE:de",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("clearfeed-data/google-news-monitor").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",
    "\\"Mistral AI\\""
  ],
  "editions": [
    "US:en",
    "GB:en",
    "FR:fr",
    "DE:de"
  ]
}' |
apify call clearfeed-data/google-news-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/6fUn1kfx98Yk24McN/builds/I3xy9qUQcMgfZsL0v/openapi.json