🔍 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 topics in a single run and scrape Google News for all of them in parallel.
• ⏱️ 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.

🧭 How to Scrape Google News with this Scraper

You can use this Actor either via the Apify UI or the API. The steps are always the same:

1. Choose your keywords 🔍
Use simple terms or advanced operators to control what you scrape from Google News, for example:

• bitcoin OR ethereum
• climate change site:cnn.com
• your brand name -jobs -hiring (to exclude job posts)

2. Set the timeframe ⏱️
Decide how far back you want to scrape Google News: 1h, 1d, 7d, 1y, or all depending on the volume of news you need.

3. Pick the region & language 🌍
Use combinations like US:en, FR:fr, DE:de, etc. to target specific markets and local news editions.

4. 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.

5. 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.

👉 Make x Apify Integration Docs 👉 n8n x Apify Docs

💡 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.
• 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 (800x400)
metadata	Additional information about the scraping

🚀 Performance Features

⚡️ Lightning Fast:

• Efficient proxy rotation
• Optimized resource usage
• Smart retry mechanism

🛠️ Smart Handling:

• Automatic URL standardization
• Support for all Google News domains
• Intelligent error handling
• Multi-keyword processing

🌍 Global Coverage:

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

📋 Quick Start

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
keywords	array	["bitcoin"]	List of keywords to search
maxArticles	number	10	Number of news to collect per keyword
timeframe	string	"1d"	Time period for news (1h/1d/7d//1y/all)
region_language	string	"US:en"	Region and language combination
decodeUrls	boolean	false	Decode Google News URLs to get original article URLs
extractDescriptions	boolean	false	Extract article descriptions from original sources
proxyConfig	string	"RESIDENTIAL"	Proxy configuration (DATACENTER/RESIDENTIAL/NONE)

Input Example

{
  "keywords": ["bitcoin"],
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "timeframe": "1h",
  "region_language": "US:en",
  "decodeUrls": false,
  "extractDescriptions": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

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",
      "timeframe": "1h"
    }
  }
]

🤝 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.

❤️ Love our scraper? If this Google News Scraper is helpful to you, please consider leaving a review. It really helps others discover a reliable tool for Google News scraping. here