# Google News Scraper - Real Article URLs, Search, Topics (`dariandanciu/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Search Google News or collect topics and top headlines in 12 country editions. Every article comes with the real publisher URL, not the news.google.com redirect. Title, source, date, rank.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dariandanciu/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Darian Danciu](https://apify.com/dariandanciu) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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, 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:

```json
{
    "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

```bash
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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Search Google News for these, one per line. Google search operators work: "exact phrase", -exclude, OR.

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

Google News topic sections to collect.

## `topHeadlines` (type: `boolean`):

Also collect the Google News front page.

## `edition` (type: `string`):

Which Google News edition (country and language) to read.

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

Only return search results published in this window.

## `site` (type: `string`):

Limit search results to one publisher, e.g. reuters.com.

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

Google News hides publisher links behind news.google.com redirects. On, each article gets the real publisher URL. Off is faster and cheaper.

## `maxArticlesPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

Google returns up to 100 per feed.

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

Apify Proxy is recommended. If Google rate-limits, feed requests switch to residential proxies automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "topHeadlines": false,
  "edition": "US:en",
  "timeRange": "any",
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per article with the real publisher URL.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Articles and decoded links per feed, and any feeds that failed (not charged).

# 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",
        "electric vehicles"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dariandanciu/google-news-scraper").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",
        "electric vehicles",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dariandanciu/google-news-scraper").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",
    "electric vehicles"
  ]
}' |
apify call dariandanciu/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/PrEC7Q935N5M6rCfg/builds/S9zpcjpmC3PSIsHTg/openapi.json