Google News Scraper – Full Article Text

Scrape Google News by keyword or topic in 18 countries and languages. Get titles, sources, publish dates, the original article URLs and, optionally, the full article text, ready for AI summaries, RAG pipelines and media monitoring.

$2.50 per 1,000 articles, plus $2.50 per 1,000 full texts (only charged when text was extracted).

Why this scraper

• ✅ Real publisher URLs, not Google redirect links
• ✅ Full article text extracted with trafilatura, clean and without menus or ads
• ✅ Search queries and topic sections (Top stories, Business, Technology, ...) in one run
• ✅ 18 editions: US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, Japan and more
• ✅ Google News operators work: site:, intitle:, OR, quotes
• ✅ Built on Google News' public RSS feeds, so it is fast and stable

What you get

Field	Description
title, source, sourceUrl, publishedAt	Headline, publisher and time (UTC)
url	Original article URL
googleNewsUrl	Google News link
query / topic, edition	Where the article came from
fullText, fullTextWordCount, description, imageUrl	With full text enabled

Example output

{
  "title": "EU agrees on new AI rules for chatbots",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-19T08:12:00+00:00",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/...",
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "edition": "US:en",
  "fullTextWordCount": 812,
  "fullText": "BRUSSELS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - ..."
}

How much does it cost?

	Price
1,000 articles (headline, source, date, URL)	$2.50
Full text add-on, per 1,000 articles with text	$2.50

Example: 100 articles with full text cost about $0.50.

Use cases

• Media and brand monitoring, competitor news alerts (schedule it daily)
• News feeds for AI agents, RAG and LLM summaries
• Market, finance and PR research
• Connect to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n, or call it from AI agents via the Apify MCP server

FAQ

Is this a Google News API? Yes. Google retired its News API; this Actor returns Google News results as JSON via the Apify API, MCP or integrations, an alternative to NewsAPI or GNews.

Which countries and languages are supported? 18 Google News editions, e.g. US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, India, Japan.

Do I get the original article URL? Yes. Google's redirect links are decoded to the publisher's URL by default.

Can I get the full article text? Yes, switch on full text. Paywalled or blocked pages are skipped and not charged for full text.

How far back does it go? Use the time range (last hour to last year). Google News returns up to about 100 articles per query.

Use it with Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents

1. Add the Apify MCP server to your assistant (e.g. in Claude: Settings → Connectors → add https://mcp.apify.com, then sign in with Apify).
2. Ask in plain language. The assistant finds this Actor, runs it and works with the results.

Or connect only this Actor: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=fast_data_asap/google-news-scraper

Example prompts:

• "Find all news about our competitor Acme Corp from the last 24 hours and summarise them."
• "Get today's top technology headlines in Germany with full text and list the 5 most important."

You can also run it via the Apify API, on a schedule, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets.

Free n8n workflow

Daily brand/competitor news alert to Slack – import-ready n8n workflow using this Actor. More in Data Recipes.

Pay per call with x402 – no account needed

AI agents can run this Actor and pay per call with x402 (USDC stablecoin payments over HTTP) through Apify's agentic payments – no Apify account or API key required. You pay the same pay-per-event prices listed above. Details: Apify x402 integration.

Notes

• Google News returns up to about 100 articles per query or topic. Use several specific queries or shorter time ranges for more.
• Some publishers block text extraction or use paywalls; those articles are returned without full text and the add-on is not charged.
• Article texts belong to their publishers. Make sure your use complies with copyright.