# Google News Scraper with Real Article URLs (`deomoreo/google-news`) Actor

Search Google News by keyword or topic in any country and language and get the real publisher article URLs (not news.google.com redirects), titles, sources and publish dates. Pay only per article delivered.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/deomoreo/google-news.md
- **Developed by:** [Francesco Marotta](https://apify.com/deomoreo) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 article delivereds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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?

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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 with Real Article URLs

Search **Google News** by keyword or topic, in any country and language, and get **the real publisher article URLs**, not `news.google.com` redirect links. For every article you get the title, source, publish date and URL, ready for monitoring, research, SEO or AI pipelines. You pay only per article delivered.

### Why this Actor

Google News RSS links point to `news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...` redirects that most tools and AI agents cannot open. This Actor **resolves each one to the publisher's URL** (for example `https://www.reuters.com/...`). With URL decoding on (the default), an article whose URL could not be resolved is still returned with `url: null` and **not charged**.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `title` | Headline, with Google's " - Source" suffix removed |
| `source`, `sourceUrl` | Publisher name and homepage |
| `url` | **The article URL on the publisher's site** |
| `googleNewsUrl` | Original Google News link |
| `publishedAt` | Publish date (ISO) |
| `query` / `topic`, `position` | What produced the article and its rank in Google News |

Example item:

```json
{
  "query": "electric cars",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Automakers bet on cheaper batteries for 2027 models",
  "source": "Example Times",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.example-times.com",
  "url": "https://www.example-times.com/business/2026/09/28/automakers-cheaper-batteries",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T14:05:00.000Z"
}
```

### How to use

1. Add **Search queries**. Google News operators work: `"exact phrase"`, `site:reuters.com`, `intitle:bitcoin`, `tesla OR byd`, `-rumor`.
2. Or pick **Topics** (World, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, Entertainment, Nation) for the edition's top headlines.
3. Choose the edition's **Country** and **Language** (for example `US`/`en`, `IT`/`it`, `DE`/`de`, `BR`/`pt-BR`) and a **Published within** period.
4. Run, then export as JSON, CSV or Excel, schedule it for daily monitoring, or call it through the API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent via MCP.

### Use cases

Brand and competitor monitoring, PR clipping, market and investment research, SEO news tracking, and feeding fresh news to LLM agents and RAG systems with URLs they can actually open.

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 articles** ($0.002 each), including the real URL. While URL decoding is on, articles whose URL could not be resolved are free; with **Get real article URLs** turned off, each article is charged the normal price. Failed queries and empty searches are always free. The run stops by itself when your spending limit is reached.

No double charges: the same query typed twice (ignoring case and extra spaces) is searched once, and an article found by several queries or topics in the same run is delivered and charged only once, under the first query or topic that found it.

### Limits

Google News returns up to 100 articles per query or topic. For more coverage, split a search into several narrower queries (for example by `site:` or by time period).

### Other Actors by the same developer

- [YouTube Transcript & Subtitles Extractor](https://apify.com/Deomoreo/youtube-transcript)
- [Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper](https://apify.com/Deomoreo/google-ads-transparency)

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords or phrases. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", site:reuters.com, intitle:, OR, -exclude.

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

Optional Google News sections to collect headlines from.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code of the Google News edition (US, GB, IT, DE, FR, IN...).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code of the edition (en, it, de, fr, es, pt-BR...).

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

Only articles published in this period (search queries only).

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Google News returns up to 100 articles per query or topic.

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

Resolve news.google.com links to the publisher's URL. While this is on, articles whose URL could not be resolved are delivered free of charge. With it off, each article is charged the normal price (and url is empty).

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

Apify datacenter proxy is used by default.

## `residentialFallback` (type: `boolean`):

Retry requests that Google blocks through a residential proxy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "electric cars"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "any",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "residentialFallback": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

No description

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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": [
        "electric cars"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("deomoreo/google-news").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": ["electric cars"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("deomoreo/google-news").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": [
    "electric cars"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call deomoreo/google-news --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/WdUxOfC2hzsdcT7Gb/builds/wiRZgn10wl1ccfUav/openapi.json