Google News Scraper — Real Publisher URLs, 20 Editions

Scrape Google News search results, topic sections and top stories into JSON, CSV or Excel. Each article comes with the publisher's real article URL (Google's news.google.com redirect resolved), an ISO 8601 publish time, its rank in the feed and other outlets covering the same story.

Choose this Actor when you need news links you can open, store or feed to an LLM directly — for monitoring a brand, a company or a topic across countries and languages.

Not the right fit when you need the full article text: this Actor returns headlines, sources and links, not article bodies.

Use cases

• Media monitoring and PR — track mentions of a brand, competitors or executives.
• Market and investment research — follow news on companies, sectors and tickers.
• AI and RAG pipelines — give summarizers or agents real article URLs, not redirects.
• Content and SEO — find stories trending in a topic section.
• Alerts — schedule hourly runs and send new rows to Slack, email, Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Measured run (2026-09-17)

Input	Result
queries: ["openai"], edition US:en, timeWindow: "7d", 50 articles	50 articles · 50 unique URLs · 0 unresolved news.google.com links · 1 m 16 s

Run the same input yourself; Google News results change constantly.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["openai", "site:reuters.com nvidia"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "edition": "US:en",
  "timeWindow": "1d",
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 100,
  "decodeUrls": true
}

Input	What it does
queries	Keywords; Google News operators work: site:, intitle:, "exact phrase", -exclude
topics	Whole sections, e.g. TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS
includeTopStories	Also fetch the edition's current top stories
edition	One of 20: US, GB, IN, CA, AU, SG, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, BR, MX, JP, KR, TW, HK, CN, ID, TR (local language)
timeWindow	1h, 12h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y (search queries)
maxArticlesPerFeed	Up to 100 per query or topic (Google's limit)
decodeUrls	Resolve redirects to publisher URLs (default on)
deduplicate	Skip articles already returned by an earlier query in the same run (default on)

Output example (one article)

{
  "title": "I self-hosted n8n, and now my homelab tells me what's broken",
  "source": "MakeUseOf",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.makeuseof.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-14T11:00:14+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.makeuseof.com/self-hosted-n8n-…",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/…",
  "position": 3,
  "relatedCoverage": [],
  "feed": "n8n",
  "feedType": "search",
  "edition": "US:en",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-16T15:30:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 articles.

URL resolution is included — no extra event. Feeds that fail are not charged. Platform usage is included. Example: 2,000 articles = $6.00. Set a maximum cost per run for a hard cap.

FAQ

How many articles per query? Google News returns up to 100 per query or topic. Use narrower queries, operators or time windows to cover more.

What if a URL can't be resolved? The article is still returned with googleNewsUrl; url is empty.

Does it return the article text? No — headline, source, time and links only.

Which languages? Each of the 20 editions returns results in its local language (e.g. TW:zh-Hant, JP:ja, DE:de).

Can I run it on a schedule? Yes. Create a task with your queries, schedule it, and keep deduplicate on.

Is it legal? It collects publicly available headlines and links, no personal data and no article text. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and the sources' terms.

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