Google News Scraper

Scrape Google News articles by keyword in real-time. Get headlines, full article text, images, and author information — all structured and ready to use. No proxy needed.

What does Google News Scraper do?

This actor searches Google News for your keywords and returns structured article data. It resolves the actual article URLs (not Google redirect links), and can optionally extract the full article text and images from each page.

You can run multiple search queries in a single run. Results are automatically deduplicated across queries, so you never get the same article twice.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
title	Article headline
url	Direct link to the article (resolved from Google News)
source	Publisher name (e.g. BBC, Reuters, CNN)
domain	Publisher domain (e.g. bbc.com)
publishedAt	Publication date and time
snippet	Short summary from Google News
fullText	Full article body text (optional)
imageUrl	Article hero image URL (optional)
author	Article author name (optional)
language	Language code used for the search

Use cases

• Media monitoring — Track news coverage of your brand, competitors, or industry topics across thousands of sources
• Market research — Collect news about specific markets, companies, or trends for analysis
• Content aggregation — Build news feeds or newsletters from curated topics and sources
• Sentiment analysis — Feed article text into NLP pipelines to gauge public sentiment on any topic
• Academic research — Gather news datasets filtered by date, region, and topic for studies
• AI/LLM training data — Extract full article text at scale for language model fine-tuning

How to use it

1. Add your search queries — Enter one or more keywords (e.g. "artificial intelligence", "climate change")
2. Set your filters — Choose date range, language, country, or restrict to a specific site
3. Choose what to extract — Enable full-text extraction and/or image extraction if needed
4. Run the actor — Results appear in the dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	required	Search keywords — each query is processed separately
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	20	Maximum articles to return per query (1–100)
language	string	en	Language code (e.g. en, de, fr, es, ja)
country	string	US	Country code (e.g. US, GB, DE, IN)
dateRange	string	any	Filter by recency: 1h, 6h, 1d, 7d, 1m, 1y, or any
dateFrom	string	—	Start date YYYY-MM-DD (overrides dateRange)
dateTo	string	—	End date YYYY-MM-DD
siteFilter	string	—	Restrict to a domain (e.g. reuters.com, bbc.com)
excludeWords	string[]	[]	Words or phrases to exclude from results
extractFullText	boolean	false	Extract the full article body text
includeImages	boolean	false	Extract the article's main image URL
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Parallel browser pages (1–20). Higher = faster but more memory

Output example

Each item in the dataset represents one article:

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "AI Achieves New Milestone in Scientific Research",
  "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00123-4",
  "source": "Nature",
  "domain": "nature.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-03T09:15:00+00:00",
  "snippet": "Researchers at MIT report a new breakthrough in machine learning...",
  "fullText": "Full article body text here...",
  "imageUrl": "https://nature.com/images/article-hero.jpg",
  "author": "Dr. Jane Smith",
  "language": "en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-03T12:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

fullText, imageUrl, and author are null unless extractFullText / includeImages are enabled.

Input examples

Headlines only — quick scan of today's news

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "climate change"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20,
  "dateRange": "1d"
}

Full articles with images

{
  "queries": ["renewable energy"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10,
  "extractFullText": true,
  "includeImages": true
}

News from a specific site

{
  "queries": ["technology"],
  "siteFilter": "bbc.com",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20
}

Custom date range with exclusions

{
  "queries": ["elections"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-02-28",
  "excludeWords": ["opinion", "editorial"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
}

Non-English news

{
  "queries": ["Nachrichten"],
  "language": "de",
  "country": "DE",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 10
}

Limitations

• Paywalled articles — Full-text extraction returns null for sites behind paywalls (e.g. NYTimes, WSJ)