📰 Google News Scraper

Search Google News in 50+ country editions and get the real article links, not Google redirects. Keywords, topics, local news and top stories, with publisher, publish time, related coverage and optional full article text.

Google News Scraper reads Google News for any keyword, topic section (Business, Technology, Sports...), city or region, across 50+ country and language editions in one run. Google News normally hides every article behind an encoded news.google.com redirect. This Actor resolves the real publisher URL for each article, so the links are ready for analysis, deduplication or content extraction. Need more than 100 results? Set a date range and the Actor searches day by day, up to 100 articles per day.

🎯 Who uses it	💡 What for
PR and comms teams, market researchers, investors, journalists, SEO teams, AI and RAG builders	Brand and competitor monitoring, media coverage reports, trading signals, trend research, news datasets for LLMs

📋 What it does

• 🔎 Keyword search with Google operators ("exact phrase", OR, -exclude, intitle:).
• 🗂️ Topic sections: World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health.
• 📍 Local news for any city, region or country name.
• 🏠 Top stories front page per edition.
• 🌍 50+ editions. US, UK, India, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan and more. Results are merged and de-duplicated.
• 🔗 Real article URLs. Encoded Google News links are converted into the real publisher URL.
• 📅 Date control. Quick ranges (past hour, day, week, month, year) or a custom from/to range.
• 📈 Past the 100 result limit. A custom date range is searched one day at a time.
• 🏷️ Publisher filters. Only certain sites, or exclude sites.
• 🧩 Related coverage. For grouped stories, the other outlets covering the same event.
• 📄 Optional article extraction. Image, description, author, publish time, language, full text and word count from the publisher page.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
queries	Search keywords.
topics	Topic sections.
locations	Cities, regions or countries for local news.
includeTopStories	Add the front page of each edition.
editions	Country and language editions, for example US:en, MX:es-419, BR:pt-419.
timeRange	any, 1h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y.
dateFrom / dateTo	Custom date range.
splitByDay	Search each day separately (default on).
includeSites / excludeSites	Publisher filters.
maxItemsPerFeed / maxItems	Limits per feed and per run.
decodeUrls	Resolve real article URLs (default on).
includeRelated	Add related coverage (default on).
extractArticle	Add image, author, full text and more (default off).

Example: brand monitoring across Latin America, last 24 hours

{
    "queries": ["\"Mercado Libre\"", "Rappi"],
    "editions": ["MX:es-419", "CO:es-419", "AR:es-419", "BR:pt-419"],
    "timeRange": "1d"
}

Example: a month of coverage from selected outlets with full text

{
    "queries": ["nvidia"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-09-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-09-30",
    "includeSites": ["reuters.com", "cnbc.com", "theverge.com"],
    "extractArticle": true
}

ℹ️ Free Apify plan: runs return a preview of up to 10 results. Any paid Apify plan unlocks the full results.

📊 Output

Real record from a run:

{
    "title": "Firefox just got a redesign with round tabs, new themes, and Compact Mode",
    "source": "The Verge",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.theverge.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T13:00:00.000Z",
    "articleUrl": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001867/mozilla-firefox-157-redesign-compact-mode",
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihgFBVV95cUxPRGYy...",
    "relatedArticles": [
        { "title": "Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome", "source": "Ars Technica", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..." },
        { "title": "The new Firefox design: More modern, more flexible, still Firefox", "source": "The Mozilla Blog", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..." }
    ],
    "searchType": "topic",
    "searchTerm": "TECHNOLOGY",
    "edition": "US:en",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T21:55:02.000Z"
}

With extractArticle on, each record also gets imageUrl, description, author, articlePublishedAt, language, fullText and wordCount. If a publisher blocks automated visits or uses a paywall, the article is still saved and includes an extractionError note.

✨ Why this one

• ✅ Real publisher links, not Google redirects. Most Google News scrapers stop at the encoded link.
• ✅ More than 100 results per query with the daily split.
• ✅ 50+ editions and all the main ways to browse: search, topics, local news and top stories.
• ✅ Related coverage shows how many outlets picked up a story.
• ✅ No duplicates across queries, days and editions.
• ✅ Lightweight. No browser needed.

❓ FAQ

Why does Google News stop at 100 articles? Each feed returns at most 100 items. Use a date range with splitByDay to get up to 100 per day.

Can I monitor a keyword every hour? Yes. Schedule the Actor with timeRange: 1h.

Is the full text always available? No. Some publishers block bots or use paywalls. Those articles keep the headline, publisher, date and URL, and include an extractionError note.

Which languages are supported? Every edition in the list, from English and Spanish to Japanese, Arabic and Hindi.

Do I need a Google account? No.

🔌 Integrations

Works with the Apify API, schedules, webhooks, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, and vector databases for RAG pipelines.

⚖️ Disclaimer

This Actor collects publicly available data from Google News and publisher websites. It is not affiliated with Google or any publisher. Respect copyright and the terms of each source when you reuse article content.