Google News Scraper - Articles by Keyword & Topic

Scrape Google News RSS results by keyword, topic section, or top-headlines feed. The Actor returns clean article rows with title, publisher, Google News link, publish time, snippet, feed context, country, language, and scrape timestamp.

It is built for media monitoring, brand and competitor tracking, market research, and lightweight news dashboards. No login, browser, or API key is required.

Quick Start

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence"],
  "topics": [],
  "topHeadlines": false,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

This small run keeps cost low and is a good first check before adding more keywords, topics, or top headlines.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
queries	string array	["artificial intelligence"]	Keyword or phrase searches.
topics	string array	[]	Google News topics such as BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, WORLD, SCIENCE, or HEALTH.
topHeadlines	boolean	false	Also fetch the main top-headlines feed.
country	string	US	Two-letter edition code such as US, GB, or IN.
language	string	en	Two-letter language code such as en, es, or hi.
maxArticlesPerFeed	integer	10	Maximum articles per query, topic, or top-headlines feed.
proxyConfiguration	object	disabled	Usually not needed for small RSS runs. Enable only for larger or repeated runs.

Output

Each dataset row is one unique Google News RSS item:

Field	Description
title	Article headline with trailing publisher text removed when possible.
source	Publisher shown by Google News.
link	Google News article URL.
guid	Google News RSS item identifier.
publishedAt	Publication time as ISO date when available.
snippet	Short RSS description text.
feedType	search, topic, or top.
feedQuery	Keyword, topic, or top-headlines label.
country, language	Edition used for the feed.
scrapedAt	Actor scrape timestamp.

Verified Sample

An existing successful run for artificial intelligence returned this row:

{
  "title": "Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media",
  "source": "The Guardian",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-21T06:01:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media The Guardian",
  "feedType": "search",
  "feedQuery": "artificial intelligence",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

Pricing

Active pay-per-event pricing:

Event	Price
article-scraped	$0.001 per article
apify-actor-start	$0.00005 per GB at run start

Duplicate articles from overlapping feeds are skipped. Each article is saved and charged atomically, and the Actor stops before fetching another feed when the user's spending limit is reached.

Common Workflows

1. Track brand or competitor news with one or more queries.
2. Monitor broad market movement with topics such as BUSINESS or TECHNOLOGY.
3. Schedule a daily run and export the dataset to CSV, Excel, JSON, or the Apify API.
4. Feed article rows into a dashboard, alerting workflow, or LLM summarization pipeline.

Notes and Limits

• Results come from Google News RSS feeds, so coverage and ranking follow Google News.
• Article links are Google News redirect URLs; the source field identifies the publisher.
• Very broad runs can return overlapping articles; duplicates are skipped by guid or link.
• Small runs normally do not need a proxy.

Responsible Use

Use this Actor for lawful collection of publicly available news metadata. Respect source terms, robots.txt, copyright, privacy laws, and any downstream restrictions for the content you export or process.

License

Apache-2.0