# Google News Scraper - Real Article URLs, Any Date Range (`coiled_magistrate/google-news-fast`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or location in any country and language. Real publisher URLs (not news.google.com links), date ranges beyond the 100-article limit, related coverage. $1.50 per 1,000 articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/coiled\_magistrate/google-news-fast.md
- **Developed by:** [TrendsData](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 news 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 - Real Article URLs, Any Country, Any Date Range

Scrape **Google News** by **keyword, topic or city** in any country and language and get clean, structured articles with the **real publisher URL** - not `news.google.com` redirect links.

**$1.50 per 1,000 articles.** No start fee, no subscription. Articles whose original URL cannot be resolved are **not charged**.

### Why this scraper

- **Real article URLs** - every `news.google.com` link is resolved to the original article on the publisher's site
- **Beyond the 100-article limit** - set a date range and the scraper searches **day by day** (up to 100 articles per day)
- **Keywords, topics and local news** - search queries, topic headlines (Business, Technology, Sports...) and city/region news
- **Any country and language** - US, UK, Germany, France, India, Czech Republic... (`country` + `language`)
- **Google News operators** - `"exact phrase"`, `OR`, `-exclude`, `site:reuters.com`, `intitle:`
- **Related coverage** - other outlets reporting on the same story
- **Deduplicated**, ISO timestamps, publisher name and domain

### Use cases

- **Media monitoring & PR** - track mentions of your brand, competitors or executives
- **Finance & trading research** - news for tickers, companies and sectors
- **AI / LLM pipelines** - fresh news for RAG, summarisation and sentiment analysis
- **SEO & content** - what is being published about a topic right now
- **Research** - historical news coverage for a date range

### Input example

```json
{
  "queries": ["nvidia", "\"electric vehicles\" -tesla"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-07",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 500
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "title": "OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website, PM says",
  "source": "BBC",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.bbc.com",
  "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/...",
  "domain": "bbc.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-24T03:22:54Z",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "position": 1,
  "query": "openai",
  "feedType": "search",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "relatedArticles": [{"title": "OpenAI's breach of Australian health department website prompts rebuke", "source": "NPR", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..."}]
}
```

### Pricing

**$0.0015 per article** ($1.50 per 1,000). You are charged only for articles returned with complete data. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options for a hard budget.

### FAQ

**How many articles can I get?** Google News returns up to 100 articles per request. With a date range the scraper splits the search into single days, so a one-week range can return 700+ articles for a popular topic.

**Which countries and languages?** All Google News editions. Use the country code (e.g. `DE`) with a language of that edition (e.g. `de`).

**Do I get the full article text?** You get headline, publisher, time, real URL and related coverage. The article body stays on the publisher's site.

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# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords to search in Google News. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:word.

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

Google News topic sections (headlines) for the selected country.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Local headlines for a place, e.g. London, Texas, Berlin.

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

Two-letter country edition, e.g. US, GB, DE, FR, IN, CZ.

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

Language code, e.g. en, de, fr, es, cs. Use a language that exists for the chosen country edition.

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

Only articles from the last hour / day / week / month / year. Ignored when a date range is set.

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

Start of a custom date range for search queries. The range is searched day by day, so you get up to 100 articles per day instead of 100 in total.

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

End of the date range (inclusive). Defaults to today.

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

Maximum articles returned for each query, topic or location.

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

Convert news.google.com redirect links to the original publisher URLs (recommended).

## `includeRelatedArticles` (type: `boolean`):

Other outlets covering the same story (Google News 'full coverage' cluster).

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Return each article only once even if several queries find it.

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

Used automatically only if Google rate-limits a request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "locations": [],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "any",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "includeRelatedArticles": true,
  "deduplicate": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All articles.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Compact table view.

# 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"
    ],
    "locations": [],
    "dateFrom": "",
    "dateTo": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("coiled_magistrate/google-news-fast").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"],
    "locations": [],
    "dateFrom": "",
    "dateTo": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("coiled_magistrate/google-news-fast").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"
  ],
  "locations": [],
  "dateFrom": "",
  "dateTo": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call coiled_magistrate/google-news-fast --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/dK0rfcEwxipxqp9rq/builds/RP1t4rBbsM4raqFh3/openapi.json