Google News Scraper

Google News Scraper turns Google News searches, topic sections and front pages into one row per article: the headline, the publisher, the publication time, the short summary from the feed and the article's address on the publisher's own site. Enter a keyword in Search queries and click Start. With Read article pages on, each row also gets the article's image and the description the publisher wrote, and with Include article text the full text of the article. It costs $1.50 per 1,000 articles on the Free plan ($0.75 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 3,300 articles.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
title	Headline as Google News lists it, with the publisher's name after a dash: AI Bots Push Beyond Web Scraping Into Customer Accounts - TechNewsWorld.
url	The article on the publisher's site, with tracking parameters such as utm_ tags, fbclid and gclid removed. If the Google link could not be resolved, the Google link itself.
googleUrl	The original news.google.com link. null for items from your own feeds.
sourceName, sourceUrl	Publisher name and home page, for example TechNewsWorld and https://www.technewsworld.com.
publishedAt	Publication time as an ISO 8601 timestamp in UTC.
summary	The feed's description with the HTML removed. For search results it usually repeats the headline and the publisher; topic and front page items often add related headlines from other outlets.
source.type, source.value	What found the article: query, topic, top or feed, and the query text, topic, edition or feed URL. With a date range, the day is added to the query in brackets.
language, country	The Google News edition, for example en and US. null for your own feeds.
key	The article URL, or Google's item ID when the link stayed on Google. Duplicates and the new-only mode are decided by this value.
firstSeenAt	When the run collected the article, as an ISO 8601 timestamp in UTC.
imageUrl, description	The article's main image and the summary the publisher wrote, from the publisher's page. Only with Read article pages on.
articleText, wordCount	Full text of the article as plain text with paragraph breaks (up to 50,000 characters) and its word count. Only with Include article text on.
articleStatus, articleError	How reading the publisher's page went: ok, no_text, blocked (bot protection, paywall or HTTP 401, 403, 429), robots_disallowed, error or not_resolved, and why in plain words. Only with Read article pages on.

How to scrape Google News

1. Add keywords to Search queries, one query per line. A comma stays part of the query, so Smith, John is one search. Google's operators work inside a query: quotes for an exact phrase, site:reuters.com for one publisher, -word to leave a word out and when:7d for the past week.
2. To follow a section, pick Topics (World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science or Health) or turn on Top stories for the edition's front page. Extra RSS or Atom feeds adds any other feed to the same table.
3. Set Language and Country to the edition you want, for example de and DE for the German edition in Germany.
4. For a past period, fill in From date and To date as YYYY-MM-DD. For fresh news only, set Published within the last N hours.
5. Leave Read article pages on for images and real descriptions, turn on Include article text for the text of each article, or turn both off for the fastest run.
6. Click Start. Articles appear in the Output tab, which exports them as CSV, Excel or JSON.

A one-week search as API input:

{
  "queries": ["\"web scraping\"", "site:reuters.com markets"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "dateFrom": "2026-09-22",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-28",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100
}

Example output

One article from a run on 26 October 2026 with Read article pages on, found by the query Apify:

{
  "key": "https://affinco.com/apify-review/",
  "title": "Apify Review 2026: Web Scraping Platform Tested 3 Months - AFFiNCO",
  "url": "https://affinco.com/apify-review/",
  "googleUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiSEFVX3lxTE1EMDc2QU1XdnhYLVhYUm50VzhfTHFGdzhsdGFvX0JielA1VUtlN0UweHVHT2RzYlYyMFpobE8teW0yRFZsYUFsUQ?oc=5",
  "sourceName": "AFFiNCO",
  "sourceUrl": "https://affinco.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-10T07:00:00.000Z",
  "summary": "Apify Review 2026: Web Scraping Platform Tested 3 Months AFFiNCO",
  "source": {
    "type": "query",
    "value": "Apify"
  },
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-10-26T21:15:30.486Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://affinco.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Honest-Apify-Review.webp",
  "description": "Full Apify review after 3 months of heavy use: 8,000+ Actors, MCP integration with Claude and ChatGPT, pricing from free to $999/month, plus real costs and drawbacks.",
  "articleText": null,
  "wordCount": null,
  "articleStatus": "ok",
  "articleError": null
}

Searching past the 100-result cap

Google News answers any search with 100 items at most, whether it covers a day or a year. When From date and To date are set, the actor runs every query once for each day of the range with Google's after: and before: operators, then merges the days and removes duplicates. Measured in September 2026 for artificial intelligence, one week returned 100 articles as a single search and more than 600 when it was searched day by day. A range covers at most 92 days; a longer one is cut at 92. Maximum articles per query, topic or feed applies to each day on its own. Topics, top stories and feeds have no date range and always return their current items.

Alerts for new articles

For a news alert on a brand, a company or a topic, turn on Return only articles that appeared since the last run and schedule the run hourly or daily, either as a saved task or with a Watch name that names the snapshot. Each run compares its articles with the previous run by key and returns only the ones that were not there. Only the previous run counts: an article that drops out of Google's results and comes back later is returned again. A CHANGES record in the run's key-value store counts the new articles and lists their keys.

How much does it cost to scrape Google News?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 articles	$1.50	$1.20	$0.975	$0.75

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

Collecting 5,000 articles costs $7.50 on the Free plan and $3.75 on Business. Duplicates, articles older than Published within the last N hours and articles already sent in new-only mode are not charged.

Limits

• Google returns at most 100 items per search, and with a date range at most 100 per day. A keyword with more articles than that in one day is still cut.
• Without when:, a date range or Published within the last N hours, a search returns Google's best matches from any year. The query Apify brought articles from 2018 to 2026 in a run on 28 September 2026.
• Each Google link needs its own lookup to find the publisher's address. When Google rate-limits these lookups, the actor stops looking them up for ten minutes, and the links in the meantime stay on news.google.com. The SUMMARY record counts them in linksLeftOnGoogle; in the run of the example row it was 4 of 61.
• With Resolve Google redirect links turned off the run is faster, and url holds the Google link.
• For your own feeds, sourceName is the item's <source> when the feed has one, and the feed's title otherwise.
• Google News has editions for some language and country pairs only, such as en/US, en/GB, cs/CZ or de/DE. For a pair it lacks, such as en/CZ, Google serves its US English edition: the rows then say US and en, the log explains it, and SUMMARY has the edition in editionServed.
• A feed of your own that does not answer or is not RSS or Atom is skipped with a warning and listed with its error in SUMMARY; the rest of the run goes on.
• Article pages are read only where the site's robots.txt allows it, 8 pages at a time and 2 per site. A site that answers with bot protection, a paywall or HTTP 401, 403 or 429 gets blocked and is not asked again in the run; the actor does not try to get around it. Paywalled articles often still give an image and a description, but no text.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google News?

Google News publishes these feeds for anyone to read in a feed reader. The actor collects headlines, the short feed summaries, publisher names and links, and with Read article pages the image, description and text from pages that the publisher's robots.txt allows to be read. Names of authors are not collected. You are responsible for how you use the results, for example when you republish headlines.

Can I get the full text of each article?

Yes, turn on Include article text. The text comes from the publisher's page in articleText, without menus, ads and comments, and is included in the price of the article. Publishers own the copyright to their articles, so check the terms before you republish text.

How do I follow one publisher?

Search for site: followed by its domain, for example site:reuters.com, alone or together with keywords. For everything a publisher posts, add its own RSS feed under Extra RSS or Atom feeds; rows from that feed link straight to the publisher's pages.

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Support

This actor is built and maintained by deriverge s.r.o., a software company based in the Czech Republic. If a run fails or a field you need is missing, please open an issue in the Issues tab or write to us at info@deriverge.com. We respond in English and Czech. Runs can be scheduled in Apify Console or started from the API tab, which has examples for Python, JavaScript and cURL and works with Make, Zapier, n8n and the Apify MCP server. If the actor saves you time, a short review helps other people find it.