Google News Scraper & Full Text Extractor 🚀

Can't open Google News links? We fixed it. This is the only scraper that reliably resolves Google's encrypted redirect URLs and extracts the clean full text of articles.

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🌟 Why This Actor?

Most Google News scrapers are broken. They either give you 403 errors when trying to open links, or they only provide useless snippets.

This Actor is built for business. It uses a hybrid smart engine to:

1. 🔍 Find News: Scrape Google News for any keyword, country, or language.
2. 🔓 Fix Links: Automatically resolves Google's complex redirection links (news.google.com/rss/articles/...) to get the real source URL.
3. 📄 Extract Content: Visits the actual news site and extracts the full article text, main image, and metadata—stripped of ads and popups.

💼 What Can You Do With It?

• AI & RAG Applications: Feed clean, full-text news data directly into your LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for high-quality context.
• Market Intelligence: Monitor competitors and industry trends by reading what is being said, not just the headlines.
• Sentiment Analysis: Analyze the entire article body for accurate sentiment scoring, avoiding misleading headlines.
• Brand Monitoring: Track every mention of your brand or products across thousands of news sources instantly.
• Automated News Feeds: Build your own news aggregation app or newsletter with zero manual work.

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✨ Features

Feature	Benefit
Full Text Extraction	Get the complete story. No clickbait, no paywalls (where possible), no ads.
100% URL Resolution	Our hybrid engine handles Google's JS redirects perfectly. Say goodbye to broken links.
Global Scale	Support for 15+ countries and 14 languages built-in.
Smart Anti-Blocking	Uses intelligent proxy rotation to stay undetected.
Image Extraction	Automatically captures the main featured image of the article.
Time Range Filter	Filter news by time: last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or 1 year.

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⏱️ Performance Expectations

Mode	Speed	What You Get
Full Text ON (extractFullText: true)	~6 minutes for 50 articles	Complete article body, main image, metadata
Full Text OFF (extractFullText: false)	Seconds (near-instant)	Title, source, date, snippet, link only

💡 Tip: If you only need headlines and metadata for high-volume monitoring, set extractFullText: false for lightning-fast results. Enable it when you need the actual article content for AI/RAG applications.

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
searchQuery	String	What are you looking for? (e.g., "Tesla stock", "Elections")	-
maxResults	Integer	How many articles do you need?	50
country	String	Target country code (e.g., US, UK, TR)	US
language	String	Target language code (e.g., en, tr)	en
extractFullText	Boolean	Set to true to get the article body.	true

Example Input

{
  "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence startups",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "extractFullText": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

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📤 Output (Sample)

You get a clean JSON object for every article:

{
  "title": "OpenAI Announces New Model",
  "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/openai-new-model",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "date": "2026-02-05T14:30:00Z",
  "snippet": "OpenAI has just revealed its latest breakthrough in...",
  "fullText": "OpenAI today announced the release of GPT-5... [Full article content follows] ... The model shows significant improvements in reasoning.",
  "topImage": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/openai.jpg",
  "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence startups",
  "extractionStatus": "success"
}

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🌍 Supported Regions

🇺🇸 USA, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France, 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇮🇳 India, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇰🇷 Korea, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇨🇳 China.

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🛠️ For Developers (Technical Details)

This Actor is engineered for reliability.

• Engine: Hybrid Node.js 20+ (Cheerio + Playwright)
• Scraping Method: RSS Feed -> JS Redirect Resolution -> Readability Extraction
• Output Format: JSON / CSV / Excel / XML
• Maintenance: Actively maintained to adapt to Google's layout changes.

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Need Help?

If you have any feature requests or find a bug, please create an issue in the Issues tab. We respond quickly!