🔍 Google News Scraper

It's a simple, scalable Google News API alternative for news monitoring, SEO, market research, brand tracking, and content aggregation.

💎 Why Choose Our Google News Scraper?

This Actor is built for anyone who needs to scrape Google News reliably at scale: data engineers, SEO teams, analysts, journalists, and agencies. Instead of managing your own Python script or dealing with blocking, you get a production‑ready Google News scraper hosted on Apify.

• 🔓 Smart URL Decoder: Automatically resolves Google News links to the original article URLs, which is crucial for storing, analyzing, or re‑crawling the source content.
• 🚀 Rich Article Extraction: This Google News scraper goes beyond headlines by fetching full descriptions and HD images directly from the publisher's page, not just the snippet shown in Google.
• 🔍 Multi-Keyword Power: Search multiple keywords in a single run and scrape Google News for all of them in parallel.
• 📰 Topic & Section Scraping: Scrape predefined Google News topics (Business, Technology, Sports…) or paste any custom topic/section URL directly from Google News.
• ⏱️ Flexible Time Frames: Filter Google News results by 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days, 1 year, or all time, so you always pull exactly the time window you need.
• 🌎 50+ Regions & Languages: Scrape Google News from virtually any country / language combination to match your target markets.
• ⚡ High performance: Optimized proxy handling, parallelization, and smart retries make sure your Google News scraping remains fast and stable, even at scale.

🧭 Two Ways to Scrape Google News

This scraper gives you two powerful modes that can be used separately or combined in a single run:

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🔍 Mode 1 — Search by Keywords

Scrape Google News search results for any keyword, just like searching on Google News manually.

Perfect for: brand monitoring, competitor tracking, trend detection, SEO research.

• Search multiple keywords in a single run
• Use Google search operators (OR, -, site:) for precision
• Control the time window: 1h, 1d, 7d, 1y, or all
• Images are extracted directly from Google News (fast, no extra requests)

{
  "keywords": ["bitcoin", "ethereum"],
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "timeframe": "1d",
  "region_language": "US:en"
}

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📰 Mode 2 — Scrape by Topics & Sections

Scrape entire Google News categories or any custom topic/section page — no keywords needed.

Perfect for: news aggregation, media dashboards, industry monitoring, editorial feeds.

Predefined Topics

Choose from built-in Google News categories: WORLD · NATION · BUSINESS · TECHNOLOGY · ENTERTAINMENT · SPORTS · SCIENCE · HEALTH

{
  "topics": ["BUSINESS", "TECHNOLOGY", "SPORTS"],
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "region_language": "FR:fr"
}

Custom Topic & Section URLs

Browse Google News, navigate to any topic or section you want (e.g. "Sports > F1", "Technology > AI"), and paste the URL:

{
  "topicUrls": [
    "https://news.google.com/topics/CAAq.../sections/CAQi...?hl=fr&gl=FR&ceid=FR:fr"
  ],
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "region_language": "FR:fr"
}

This lets you scrape any niche section in any language — even the most specific ones that don't have a predefined category.

💡 For topics, images are fetched from the original article page (og:image) since Google News RSS doesn't include them.

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🧩 Enable Advanced Scraping Options

• decodeUrls to get the direct article URL instead of the Google redirect.
• extractDescriptions to scrape the full article description from the source.
• extractImages to control whether article images are included in the output.

🚀 Run the Actor or Call the API

The scraper returns clean, structured Google News data in JSON or CSV, ready to be pushed to your data warehouse, BI dashboard, Google Sheets, or any automation workflow. This makes it a plug‑and‑play solution for anyone asking "how do I scrape Google News?" without having to manage infrastructure or parsing logic.

🔮 Power Up Your Google News Searches

You can improve your Google News scraping results using standard Google search operators in your keywords:

• Use - to exclude words (e.g., bitcoin -ethereum will show bitcoin news but exclude those mentioning ethereum)
• Use site: to filter by specific website (e.g., bitcoin site:cnn.com will only show articles from CNN)
• Use OR to search for multiple terms (e.g., bitcoin OR ethereum will show articles containing either term)

🤖 Scrape Google News with No‑Code Automation (Make & n8n)

This Google News Scraper is fully compatible with Make and n8n, so you can scrape Google News without writing any code: 🎉

• Schedule the scraper to run every hour, every day, or on demand.
• Automatically send newly scraped Google News articles to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Slack, or your CRM.
• Build alerting workflows that notify you whenever a new article matches your keywords or brand name.

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💡 Use Cases for this Google News Scraper

• Market & competitor intelligence – scrape Google News for your competitors, sectors, and products to detect trends and new players.
• Brand & PR monitoring – track mentions of your brand, clients, or executives across Google News in real time.
• SEO & content strategy – discover topics and angles that are generating media coverage and feed them into your editorial pipeline.
• News aggregation – build custom news feeds by combining topics, sections, and keywords from any country.
• Automated reporting & alerts – combine this scraper with Make / n8n to send scheduled reports or instant alerts when new relevant articles appear.
• Data science & NLP – build labeled datasets of news articles for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, or trend prediction.

✨ What You'll Get

📰 News Data Structure

Field	Description
title	Title of the news article
source	Source/publisher of the news
url	Direct link to the article
description	Article description extracted from the original source
publishedAt	ISO date of publication
publishedTimestamp	Unix timestamp of publication
image	Article image URL (from Google News or og:image from the source)
metadata	Additional info: keyword, sourceType, timeframe, scrapeTimestamp

🏷️ Source Types

Each article includes a sourceType in its metadata so you know exactly where it came from:

sourceType	Description
keyword	Found via keyword search
topic	Found via a predefined topic (BUSINESS, SPORTS…)
topic_url	Found via a custom topic/section URL

🚀 Performance Features

⚡️ Lightning Fast

• RSS-first approach for topics (instant results)
• Automatic HTML fallback for custom sections
• Efficient proxy rotation & smart retries

🛠️ Smart Handling

• Automatic URL standardization
• GDPR consent page bypass
• Multi-keyword & multi-topic processing
• Intelligent error handling

🌍 Global Coverage

• Works with any country/language combination
• Captures news in all languages
• Standardizes output format

📋 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	[]	Keywords to search on Google News
topics	array	[]	Predefined topics: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH
topicUrls	array	[]	Custom Google News topic/section URLs (copy-paste from your browser)
maxArticles	number	10	Max articles to collect per source
timeframe	string	"1d"	Time period for keyword searches (1h/1d/7d/1y/all)
region_language	string	"US:en"	Region and language combination
decodeUrls	boolean	false	Decode Google News URLs to original article URLs
extractDescriptions	boolean	false	Extract full descriptions from original article pages
extractImages	boolean	true	Include article images in the output
proxyConfiguration	object	{}	Proxy configuration (DATACENTER/RESIDENTIAL)

📤 Output Example

[
  {
    "title": "Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High",
    "source": "Financial Times",
    "url": "https://ft.com/article/...",
    "publishedAt": "2025-02-22T12:41:25.936Z",
    "publishedTimestamp": 1740283285936,
    "image": "https://news.google.com/api/attachments/...-w800-...-h400-...",
    "description": "Bitcoin jumps 20% after new signals from regulators...",
    "metadata": {
      "scrapeTimestamp": "2025-02-22T12:41:25.936Z",
      "keyword": "bitcoin",
      "sourceType": "keyword",
      "timeframe": "1h"
    }
  },
  {
    "title": "Tech Giants Race to Dominate AI Market",
    "source": "Reuters",
    "url": "https://reuters.com/technology/...",
    "publishedAt": "2025-02-22T10:00:00+00:00",
    "publishedTimestamp": 1740273600000,
    "image": "https://www.reuters.com/images/og-image.jpg",
    "metadata": {
      "scrapeTimestamp": "2025-02-22T12:45:00.000Z",
      "keyword": "TECHNOLOGY",
      "sourceType": "topic",
      "timeframe": "topic"
    }
  }
]

🤝 Support & Resources

Need help? Have questions? We're here to help! If you encounter any issues or have feature requests, please don't hesitate to open an issue.

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