Google News Scraper - Real Article URLs, Search, Topics

Collect articles from Google News search, topic sections and top headlines in 12 country editions, and get the real publisher URL for every article, not the news.google.com redirect link that Google News feeds give you.

Why this one

• Real article URLs. Google News wraps every link in its own redirect. This Actor decodes each one to the publisher's address (https://www.reuters.com/...), so you can open, store, dedupe or scrape the article directly.
• Clean titles. The " - Publisher" suffix Google adds to every headline is removed; the publisher is in its own source column.
• Search like on Google. Quoted phrases, -exclude, OR, plus a time window (past hour to past 30 days) and a single-site filter.
• Topics and front page. World, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, Entertainment, Nation, and the top headlines, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico and Japan editions.
• Runs finish. When Google rate-limits, the Actor backs off, retries and moves its feed requests to residential IPs automatically.
• You never pay for failures. Feeds that fail are listed in RUN_SUMMARY and cost nothing.

Output

One row per article:

{
    "rank": 1,
    "title": "Artemis II Lessons: Building Mission-Critical Embedded Software",
    "source": "Design News",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.designnews.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-22T07:00:00.000Z",
    "url": "https://www.designnews.com/embedded-systems/what-artemis-ii-teaches-us-...",
    "urlDecoded": true,
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
    "articleId": "CBMi...",
    "feed": "search",
    "feedLabel": "embedded systems",
    "edition": "US:en",
    "timeRange": "7d"
}

rank is the article's position in Google's results for that feed. Articles that appear in more than one feed in the same run are returned once.

Use cases

• Media monitoring: track your brand, competitors or executives and schedule daily runs.
• Market and investment research: follow news on companies, sectors or keywords over time.
• Content and newsletters: gather the day's stories on a topic with links that go straight to the source.
• AI and RAG pipelines: feed fresh, deduplicated article URLs into a summarizer or an article-text extractor.

Pricing

Pay per article, plus the platform usage of your run. See the Pricing tab. Failed feeds are free. Turning off Get real article URLs makes runs faster and cheaper if you only need titles and sources.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dariandanciu~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries":["\"electric vehicles\" -tesla"],"timeRange":"7d"}'

Good to know

• Google News feeds return up to 100 articles per query or topic. For more, split a broad query into narrower ones or run on a schedule.
• A few articles occasionally can't be decoded (Google changes or removes them); those keep urlDecoded: false and still have googleNewsUrl.
• This Actor collects headlines and links that Google News publishes in its public feeds. It does not copy article text.

Feedback

Missing a country edition or field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.