Google News Scraper - Articles by Search or Topic, Any Country

Get Google News articles for any search, topic section or the top stories, in any country and language, with the publisher's real article URL, the source, the publish time and the other outlets covering the same story. Google News search operators work: when:7d, site:reuters.com, intitle:, quotes and OR. $1.00 per 1,000 articles. No login, no API key, no proxy.

What data you get

One row per article:

• title (without the " - Source" suffix Google adds), url (the publisher's own link), source, sourceUrl
• publishedAt (ISO 8601), googleNewsUrl, articleId (stable across runs, for deduplication)
• related: the same story from other outlets, each with title, source and link, and relatedCount
• feed and feedValue (which query or topic it came from), rank, language, country

How to use

1. Add search queries (one per line) and/or pick topics: top stories, world, nation, business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, health.
2. Set the edition's language and country (en-US and US by default), and optionally keep only articles newer than "24 hours" or a date.
3. Run it, then download JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the rows through the API. Schedule it for a news feed.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	—	Searches; Google News operators work.
topics	array	[]	top, world, nation, business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, health.
language	string	en-US	Edition language, e.g. en-GB, de, fr, es-419, pt-BR.
country	string	US	Edition country, e.g. GB, DE, IN.
maxArticlesPerFeed	integer	50	Per query or topic (Google News feeds hold up to 100).
newerThan	string	—	An age like "24 hours" or a date. Older articles are left out and not charged.
decodeUrls	boolean	true	Resolve Google News links to publisher URLs.
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Articles resolved in parallel.
timeoutSecs	integer	30	Per request.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Not needed.

Output example

A real row from the default run on 2026-09-29 (long links and the related list shortened here):

{
  "ok": true,
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads and Macs for this urgent security fix",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/still-running-ios-26-update-your-iphones-ipads-and-macs-for-this-urgent-security-fix/",
  "urlDecoded": true,
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "sourceUrl": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T13:25:21.000Z",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxOQUVLYm5OUm55Zng3O...",
  "articleId": "CBMiuwFBVV95cUxOQUVLYm5OUm55Zng3OUZnSjhu...",
  "feed": "topic",
  "feedValue": "technology",
  "rank": 2,
  "related": [
    {
      "title": "Apple Patches Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’",
      "source": "SecurityWeek",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPNi1yeU1TWENvbmE3S..."
    },
    {
      "title": "Still on iOS 26? You Need to Download iOS 26.7.1 Now for This Zero-Day Patch",
      "source": "CNET",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxQUzNra1VBN2lxTlNKV..."
    }
  ],
  "relatedCount": 4,
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T17:14:07.220Z"
}

A feed that returns nothing comes back as one row with ok: false and a plain reason. Those rows are free.

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 articles ($0.001 each). An article that appears in two of your feeds is written and charged once. Feeds that fail, articles filtered out by date and articles whose publisher link could not be resolved (they still come with the Google News link and urlError) are free. In a test run on Apify, 579 articles from seven feeds, every one with its publisher link, took 107 seconds.

Paid Apify plans pay less: 10% off on Bronze, 20% on Silver and 30% on Gold and higher tiers.

Use cases

• Media monitoring: every article mentioning your brand, competitors or executives, with the publisher link.
• News feeds for apps and newsletters: topic sections per country, deduplicated, on a schedule.
• Market and investment research: coverage of a company or sector, and which outlets carry it.
• AI and RAG pipelines: fresh article links to fetch and summarise.

FAQ

Why resolve the links? Google News feeds link to news.google.com redirect pages, not to the article. The Actor turns each into the publisher's URL, so you can fetch, cite or deduplicate by the real link. If Google refuses a lookup, the row keeps its Google News link, says why in urlError, and is not charged.

How many articles can a query return? Up to 100 per query or topic, which is what Google News feeds hold. Use several narrower queries (or when:1d) to go wider.

Which countries and languages work? Any edition Google News has: en-US/US, en-GB/GB, de/DE, fr/FR, es-419/MX, pt-BR/BR, hi/IN and more.

Is it legal? It reads Google News's public RSS feeds and returns headlines and links, not article text. You are responsible for how you use them.

Integrations

Run it from the Apify API or a client library, schedule it in Apify Console, or connect it to n8n, Make, Zapier or any MCP client through Apify's integrations. Results are available as JSON, CSV, Excel and through the dataset API.

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Changelog

• 1.0.0 (2026-09) — first release: search, topics and top stories in any edition, publisher links, related coverage, date filter.