Google News Scraper

Get structured news data from Google News — no API key, no login, no rate limit headaches.

Search by keyword and scrape topic feeds — both modes in one actor. Get clean JSON with titles, URLs, publishers, timestamps, thumbnails, and authors — ready to plug into your pipeline.

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What you get

[
  {
    "title": "SpaceX's plan: Put all the data centers in space, then profit",
    "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/06/19/data-center-space-musks-spacex-has-some-people-taking-it-seriously/",
    "publishedAt": 1781888401,
    "source": { "name": "The Washington Post" },
    "thumbnail": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/X6HY6FR3HEWBIATANRWYEHVSYY_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440",
    "authors": ["Elizabeth Dwoskin", "Faiz Siddiqui"]
  },
  {
    "title": "Summer solstice 2026: What is it and why is it the longest day of the year?",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c4gy3x0k32yo",
    "publishedAt": 1781593422,
    "source": { "name": "BBC" },
    "thumbnail": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/1920/cpsprodpb/62b7/live/a3d32eb0-6bcd-11f1-8546-8f19e4fe30f4.jpg",
    "authors": []
  }
]

Results export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML — pick what fits your workflow.

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What you can do with it

• Monitor breaking news on any keyword or topic
• Track competitor mentions and brand sentiment
• Feed an LLM with fresh, relevant context
• Power a news dashboard or newsletter
• Run media research across 130+ countries and languages

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Two modes, one actor

Most news scrapers do one or the other. This one does both — so you can run keyword monitoring and topic feeds in the same pipeline without switching tools.

Search — keyword-driven

Query any term and get the articles Google thinks are most relevant right now.

query: "OpenAI"  →  up to 100 articles

Good for: brand monitoring, competitor tracking, event-driven research.

Category — topic feed

Pull the latest articles from Google News topic feeds — the same feeds you see when you browse the site.

topic: "Technology/Artificial intelligence"  →  up to 250 articles

Good for: daily digests, LLM context pipelines, niche topic monitoring.

Supported top-level topics: Business, Entertainment, World, Technology, Sports, Science, Health, U.S.

Each topic has sub-sections:

• Business: Economy, Markets, Jobs, Personal Finance, Entrepreneurship
• Entertainment: Movies, Music, TV, Books, Arts & Design, Celebrities
• Technology: Mobile, Gadgets, Internet, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Computing
• Sports: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA Football, NCAA Basketball, Soccer, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, WNBA
• Science: Environment, Space, Physics, Genetics, Wildlife
• Health: Medication, Health Care, Mental Health, Nutrition, Fitness

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Quick start

On Apify platform (no code):

1. Click Try for free
2. Set mode to search and enter your query — or set mode to category and pick a topic
3. Click Start and grab your results from the Dataset tab

Via API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crw~google-news-scraper-1k-results-1/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "search", "query": "artificial intelligence", "maxResults": 100}'

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	"search" | "category"	"category"	How to find articles
query	string	—	Search term. Required when mode=search
topic	string	"Business"	Topic feed. Required when mode=category
customTopic	string	—	Raw topic path for topics not in the dropdown (see below)
language	string	"en-US"	Language and region
maxResults	integer	100	How many articles to return (50–250)

Language

Set language to any language-REGION code to get results localized for that audience. Common values:

en-US · en-GB · ko-KR · ja-JP · zh-CN · zh-TW · de-DE · fr-FR · es-ES · pt-BR · ru-RU · ar-SA

130+ locales are supported. See the full list in .actor/input_schema.json.

Custom Topic

Google News has many more topics than what's in the dropdown — country editions, niche categories, local news, and more. To scrape any of them, grab the URL from your browser:

https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdv.../sections/CAQiRkNC...
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                                         copy this part

Paste it into customTopic (the topics/ prefix is optional — it gets stripped automatically). This takes priority over the topic dropdown.

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Output fields

Field	Type	Notes
articleId	string	Google News internal ID
title	string	Article headline
url	string	Direct link to the article
publishedAt	number	Unix timestamp (seconds)
source.name	string	Publisher name
source.favicon	string | null	Publisher favicon URL
thumbnail	string | null	Article thumbnail image URL
authors	string[]	Author names (may be empty)

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Expected article counts

Mode	Typical results
Search	~100 articles
Category (top-level)	~250 articles
Category (sub-section)	45–230 articles

Results reflect what Google News currently shows for that topic — counts vary by how much news is happening.