Google News Search & Autocomplete Scraper

Search public Google News RSS results or collect phrase suggestions from Google Suggest. Choose a mode:

• News: return story headlines and metadata from the Google News RSS feed.
• Autocomplete: return suggested phrases. You can optionally search Google News for a bounded number of suggestions and attach matching stories.

The Actor collects RSS story metadata; it does not fetch publisher pages or full publisher articles. The links and summaries in the feed should be treated as feed content, not as the underlying publisher article.

Google News RSS use notice: News mode reads the Google News RSS feed, whose response includes a notice limiting the feed to personal, non-commercial feed readers. This Actor does not grant broader use rights. Check the notice and applicable terms before using RSS results. This note applies to News mode; autocomplete uses a separate Google Suggest endpoint.

How to use

1. Choose news or autocomplete in mode.
2. Enter a query or a list of queries.
3. Set the result limit and language/region.
4. In autocomplete mode, optionally enable bounded Google News searches for returned suggestions.
5. Run the Actor and inspect the dataset.

Example: News results

{
  "mode": "news",
  "query": "OpenAI",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US"
}

Example: suggestions with optional news stories

{
  "mode": "autocomplete",
  "queries": ["OpenAI", "Google News"],
  "includeNewsResults": true,
  "maxNewsFollowUpRequests": 3,
  "maxNewsResultsPerSuggestion": 5,
  "maxItems": 10
}

Input

Input	Description	Default
mode	news for Google News RSS or autocomplete for Google Suggest.	news
query / queries	One query or a list of queries. If omitted, the Actor uses OpenAI.	OpenAI
keywords / searchQuery	Compatibility aliases for search terms.	—
includeNewsResults	In autocomplete mode, search News for selected suggestions and nest story records.	false
maxNewsFollowUpRequests	Maximum suggestions to search in News across the run (0–10).	3
maxNewsResultsPerSuggestion	Maximum stories per suggestion (1–10).	5
searchUrl	Optional Google News RSS or Google Suggest URL with a query. Applies to one query.	—
page / maxPages	Both are fixed at 1; these sources do not offer supported page navigation.	1 / 1
maxItems	Maximum dataset rows across the run (1–100).	10
language / country	Language and region for results. Country accepts a two-letter code or ALL.	en-US / US
proxyConfiguration	Optional Apify Proxy configuration.	—

The Input tab also includes response-size and request-header settings. News follow-up is available only in autocomplete mode.

Output

News mode

Each dataset row represents an RSS story. Depending on the feed, it can include:

• Headline, RSS item identifier, and article link as supplied by the feed.
• Publisher name and publisher link.
• Summary and the full RSS description as text or cleaned markup when available.
• Publication date text and normalized date fields only when the source provides enough precision.
• Additional headlines and publisher names when a feed item groups related coverage.
• Headline and description text metrics, including extracted terms. These are derived from the text and are not Google-provided tags.

Example:

{
  "title": "Example headline",
  "articleId": "story-123",
  "articleUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/example",
  "publisher": "Example News",
  "publisherUrl": "https://example.com/",
  "publishedAt": "Tue, 01 Jan 2030 00:00:00 GMT",
  "publishedAtUtc": "2030-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "description": "A short summary from the RSS feed.",
  "headlineTerms": ["example", "headline"]
}

Autocomplete mode

Each row contains a suggestion phrase and any type or subtype labels Google Suggest supplies. If includeNewsResults is enabled, a newsResults array contains the matching RSS story fields described above. Suggestions alone are not emitted as news articles.

The Output tab shows the available result fields. Run summary information is available with the run output in Apify.

Limits and responsible use

Google may vary suggestions, story metadata, dates, and available fields by query and region. Results do not include full publisher articles, and article destinations are not visited. Use content according to the applicable source notice and terms. This Actor is not affiliated with Google.