Google News Scraper

Google News articles for any search or section, in any country and language: headline, publisher, publish date and the real article URL, plus the other outlets covering the same story when you read a section. Up to 100 articles per search. People use this kind of feed for brand monitoring, PR reports and feeding news into AI tools.

The part that matters most is the link. Google News sends every article through a news.google.com redirect, so most exports are full of Google links you can't use directly. This Actor turns each one into the publisher's own URL, like theguardian.com or reuters.com, using Google's own link lookup. In two test runs on 27 September, all 200 links resolved, to 74 and 47 different sites.

What you get for each article

• Headline, with the publisher name removed from the end
• Publisher name and site
• Publish date and time
• The article URL on the publisher's site, plus the original Google News link
• Related coverage: other outlets' headlines Google groups with the story, for sections
• Which search or topic it came from, and its position there

Input

{
    "queries": ["electric cars", "\"OpenAI\" site:reuters.com"],
    "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en",
    "timeRange": "7d"
}

• queries accept Google News operators: quotes for exact phrases, site: for one publisher, -word to exclude.
• topics are Google News sections: top stories, world, nation, business, technology, entertainment, sports, science and health.
• country and language pick the edition, for example DE with de for the German edition or IN with en for India.
• timeRange limits searches to the past hour, 12 hours, day, week or month.

Output

{
    "source": "electric cars",
    "sourceType": "search",
    "position": 2,
    "title": "High-mileage electric cars are more reliable than petrol ones",
    "publisher": "The Guardian",
    "publisherUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com",
    "articleUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/22/high-mileage-used-electric-cars-reliable-petrol-ev-mot",
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T19:01:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

$0.001 per article, so 1,000 articles cost $1. A search or topic that fails is an error row that costs nothing. Apify adds $0.00005 per run for starting the Actor.

Limits

• Google News returns at most 100 articles per search or topic. For more, split a search into narrower ones or run it on a schedule.
• If Google doesn't answer a link lookup, the article still comes back with its Google News link and articleUrl empty.
• Topics always show current news; timeRange applies to searches only.
• Related coverage comes with sections like Top stories or Technology, where Google groups a story's outlets together. Search results arrive one article at a time, so for searches that list is empty.
• Google News gives headlines and links, not article text. For the text, run the articleUrl list through a page scraper.

Changelog

• 2026-09-27: first version.