Google News Scraper — Search & Export News Articles to JSON/CSV

Search Google News for any topic or keyword and export the latest articles — title, source, publish date, link and snippet — as JSON or CSV. Any country or language. No API key. A cheaper alternative to NewsAPI and the Google News API.

Quick start

1. Fill in the input — set the fields in the input tab (prefilled with a working example).
2. Click Start — the Actor runs and writes one record per item to the dataset.
3. Get your data — export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the API.

What you get

Per article: title, source, publishedAt, url, snippet, query, scrapedAt.

• Search any topic or keyword
• Any country and language
• Export to JSON or CSV
• No API key, no quota

Example

Input

{ "queries": ["electric vehicles", "OpenAI"], "language": "en-US", "country": "US" }

Output

{
  "query": "OpenAI",
  "title": "OpenAI announces ...",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T09:12:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/...",
  "snippet": "The company said ...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Brand & competitor monitoring — track every mention across thousands of sources.
• PR & market intelligence — catch breaking news on topics that matter to you.
• AI & research — feed a fresh news stream into LLMs, dashboards and alerts.

NewsAPI alternative

No API key, no request caps, no paywalled history. Search any topic and export structured articles directly.

Pricing

$4 per 1,000 articles ($0.004 each). You are only charged for articles actually delivered.

FAQ

Does it need an API key? No. How fresh are the results? The latest Google News results at run time. Which countries and languages? Any — set country and language. Does it return full article text? It returns the headline, source, date, link and snippet; follow the link for the full text.

Settings

• queries — topics/keywords, one per line.
• language — UI language (e.g. en-US, sv, de).
• country — region code (e.g. US, SE, GB).
• maxArticlesPerQuery, maxConcurrency.

Related actors

• Analyst Agent — Autonomous Research & Monitoring — Give it a question; get a structured, cited analyst-grade report. Plans sub-questions
• Competitor Pulse — AI Competitor Intelligence Monitor — Watch competitors holistically — pricing, website, hiring, tech, news and
• Signal Radar — AI Account Intelligence & ICP Scoring — Turn company domains into ICP-scored, signal-tagged account intelligence from public

Example output

{
  "query": "builtinnyc",
  "title": "Mapping Community unveils how public buildings get built in NYC",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPX1JPbzRJcTRST2lDb0JIU1Y5dGhua2t5WjR5UnFrdVd4UHRFaExNWlp4ZDI3M19TZzkxSUNsSEhzOXRBMnZqS…",
  "source": "The Architect’s Newspaper",
  "publishedAt": "2019-06-26T07:00:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "Mapping Community unveils how public buildings get built in NYC The Architect’s Newspaper"
}