# Google News Scraper — Publisher URLs, 20 Editions, API (`engineertsaistudio/google-news-scraper-real-article-urls`) Actor

Scrape Google News search, topics and top stories in 20 country editions. Real publisher article URLs, ISO dates, rank and related coverage. Operators like site: work. $3 per 1,000 articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/engineertsaistudio/google-news-scraper-real-article-urls.md
- **Developed by:** [Studio EngineerTsai](https://apify.com/engineertsaistudio) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 news articles

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?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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)

```json
{
  "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.

**Need a feature?** Open an issue on the Issues tab — include your run ID.

# Actor input Schema

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

Search terms. Google News operators work too, e.g. site:reuters.com, intitle:openai, "exact phrase", -exclude.

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

Get the latest headlines for whole sections.

## `includeTopStories` (type: `boolean`):

Also get the current Top stories of the selected edition.

## `edition` (type: `string`):

Which Google News edition to use. It decides the language and the country of the results.

## `timeWindow` (type: `string`):

Only return articles published in this window. Applies to search queries.

## `maxArticlesPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

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

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

Turn Google News redirect links into the publisher's real article URL (field 'url').

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Skip articles that were already returned by an earlier query or topic in the same run.

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

Apify Proxy is used to avoid rate limits. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "n8n",
    "openai"
  ],
  "includeTopStories": false,
  "edition": "US:en",
  "timeWindow": "",
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 100,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "deduplicate": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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": [
        "n8n",
        "openai"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("engineertsaistudio/google-news-scraper-real-article-urls").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": [
        "n8n",
        "openai",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("engineertsaistudio/google-news-scraper-real-article-urls").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": [
    "n8n",
    "openai"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call engineertsaistudio/google-news-scraper-real-article-urls --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/h6uzL4Xdhw1dtYpAv/builds/hEBPDQCWagonYwtdT/openapi.json