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Google News Search Scraper

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Google News Search Scraper

Google News Search Scraper

Collect structured news-story cards from public Google News search pages, including source-backed headlines, publisher labels, visible date text, bylines, snippets, and card media.

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Collect structured story information from public Google News search results. Each dataset record represents a story card, with its headline, displayed publisher information, date, summary, and media when available.

Story links are kept as Google News provides them. The Actor does not open publisher pages or collect full publisher articles.

How to use

  1. Enter one or more search phrases, or provide Google News search URLs in startUrls.
  2. Choose the language and edition of Google News.
  3. Set the maximum stories and result batches to collect.
  4. Run the Actor and view or export the story records in the dataset.

Example:

{
"query": "artificial intelligence",
"locale": "en-US",
"countryCode": "US",
"maxItems": 25,
"maxPages": 3
}

Input

InputDescriptionDefault
query / queriesOne or more Google News searches (up to 10).—
startUrlsGoogle News search URLs containing a query. RSS, story, and publisher URLs are not accepted.—
localeGoogle News language and region.en-US
countryCodeTwo-letter Google News edition code. Defaults to the region in locale.—
maxItemsMaximum unique story records across all searches.25
pageFixed at 1; the search feed has no supported numbered page offset.1
maxPagesMaximum result batches to collect per search, including the initial results.3
transportUse rendered browser results (browser) or initial page HTML (http). HTTP mode requires maxPages set to 1.browser
proxyConfigurationOptional Apify Proxy configuration.—

Output

Each dataset item requires storyId, headline, and articleUrl. Other fields can include:

  • Story and publisher: Google News story link, displayed publisher name and links, and the publisher favicon when shown.
  • Publication: date wording and exact date/time values only when supplied by the page.
  • Content: visible byline, author names, story-card summary, and its text metrics.
  • Media and labels: visible images, image descriptions, image variants, and explicit opinion or video indicators.

Relative date labels such as “6 hours ago” stay as text; they are not converted into fabricated timestamps. Summary text is what appears on the Google News card, not the publisher’s full article.

Example dataset item:

{
"storyId": "example-story-id",
"headline": "Researchers publish a new computing study",
"articleUrl": "https://news.google.com/read/example-story-id",
"publisherName": "Example Daily",
"publishedAtText": "2 hours ago",
"publishedAtPrecision": "hour",
"bylineText": "By Alex Example",
"authors": ["Alex Example"],
"summaryText": "A short story summary shown on the Google News card.",
"thumbnailUrl": "https://news.google.com/api/attachments/example-image"
}

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

Limits and responsible use

Google News may vary story cards by query, edition, and time, so some stories may not appear. The Actor does not sign in or bypass access checks.

Use story information according to Google News and publisher terms, and follow applicable laws. This Actor is not affiliated with Google.