Google & Bing News Monitor - Brand Alerts API

Monitor Google News and Bing News from one Actor. Search one or many queries and get a unified dataset of headlines, sources, publish dates, snippets, news links, and decoded publisher URLs when available.

Use it for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, PR alerts, market research, crisis monitoring, and AI/news pipelines.

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What it does

• Searches Google News, Bing News, or both
• Accepts multiple queries or pasted query lists
• Returns one normalized row per article
• Adds searchEngine so you can compare coverage across sources
• Deduplicates across Google and Bing when possible
• Saves SUMMARY, HEADLINES_BY_SOURCE, and ERRORS key-value outputs

No API key, login, or browser required.

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Popular use cases

• Brand alerts - monitor your brand, executives, products, and competitors.
• Cross-source news monitoring - compare Google News and Bing News coverage.
• Competitor launch tracking - watch funding, partnerships, acquisitions, and product launches.
• Crisis monitoring - track lawsuits, outages, breaches, recalls, and controversies.
• Market research - follow AI, crypto, healthcare, real estate, climate, or finance topics.
• LLM news pipelines - feed structured current news into dashboards and AI workflows.

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Example input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "climate tech", "interest rates"],
  "searchEngines": ["google", "bing"],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 25,
  "dedupe": true
}

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	-	Search terms
queriesText	string	-	Queries as text, one per line or comma-separated
searchEngines	string[]	[google, bing]	News sources to monitor
geo	string	"US"	Country/market code
language	string	"en"	Language code
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	50	Cap per query per search engine
maxQueries	integer	100	Max search queries
dedupe	boolean	true	Remove duplicate articles across sources
requestDelayMs	integer	500	Delay between feed requests
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel feed requests
proxyConfiguration	object	-	Optional proxy settings for high volume

At least one of queries or queriesText is required.

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Output

{
  "searchEngine": "bing",
  "query": "openai",
  "queryType": "search",
  "title": "OpenAI ships new model and tools",
  "newsUrl": "https://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?...",
  "googleNewsUrl": null,
  "bingNewsUrl": "https://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?...",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.theverge.com/openai...",
  "source": "The Verge",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T14:30:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "OpenAI ships new model...",
  "guid": "ABC123",
  "position": 1,
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-06-18T15:00:00.000Z"
}

articleUrl is decoded from Bing News links when Bing includes the publisher URL. Google News rows keep the Google News RSS redirect link as googleNewsUrl.

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Related tools

• Google News Scraper
• Bing News Scraper
• Google AI Overview Tracker

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

Run with the API

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/groupoject~google-bing-news-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "queries":["Your Brand","competitor funding"],
    "searchEngines":["google","bing"],
    "geo":"US",
    "language":"en",
    "maxItemsPerQuery":25
  }'

Search patterns for better alerts

• Reputation: "Brand Name" lawsuit OR outage OR recall
• Competitors: "Competitor" launch OR partnership OR acquisition
• Executives: "Person Name" appointed OR interview OR resigns
• Products: "Product Name" review OR update OR vulnerability
• Markets: "Industry" regulation OR investment OR forecast

Monitoring workflow

Save focused searches as an Apify task, run them on a schedule, and route the normalized dataset to Slack, email, a webhook, database, or AI summarizer. Compare searchEngine to see which stories appear in Google News, Bing News, or both.

FAQ

Does it scrape full article text?

No. It returns discovery metadata including headline, publisher, date, snippet, and available article URLs.

Why do Google and Bing results differ?

Each service has its own index, ranking, publishers, and localization. Cross-source differences are a useful monitoring signal.

Is a news API key required?

No. The Actor uses public news feeds and does not require third-party news API credentials.

Can it monitor non-English markets?

Yes. Set the appropriate geo and language; available localization varies by source.

Respect publisher rights and source terms when storing or redistributing news metadata.

Pricing and billing

Base result price checked September 14, 2026: $1.50 per 1,000 dataset items ($0.0015 each). 100 result items cost $0.15 in result fees.

The separate Actor start event is $0.00005 per billable start unit, with one unit per GB of configured memory and a minimum of one. It applies even when a run returns no results.

A result event corresponds to one item saved in the default dataset, not one HTTP request or one input URL.

The live Pricing tab is authoritative for current rates, tier discounts and any separately charged usage. Set a maximum run charge and inspect a small sample before scaling. Charges from an external provider, where used, are not controlled by the Apify run-charge limit.