All notable changes to Google News Scraper are recorded here. The newest release is first.
Listing and settings update. The price list is unchanged.
- The free-plan note now states that the free Apify plan's $5 of monthly credit covers about 3,350 articles in a single run.
- The search-engine description now begins "Google News API alternative" and no longer calls the Actor free.
- Default run memory is now 1 GB, matching the pricing section, so a run started without a memory setting is charged one start event.
First public release.
- Search and extraction implemented against the source's own public endpoints, with no login and no third-party API key.
- Every row carries
status, so a missing record (not_found) and a failure (error) are told apart from real data. Only ok rows are charged.
- Records are validated against a schema before they are written, so an upstream change produces loud warnings instead of silently billing for empty rows.
- Callable with no arguments by an AI agent, which the input schema's defaults make safe.
- Golden tests run the extraction against saved real responses, and the Actor is verified on Apify's own infrastructure before each release.
