Google News Scraper

Scrape Google News in bulk by search query and get clean, structured article data. Fast, reliable, no API key.

Drop in your search terms and get back matching Google News articles: title, source, publish date, snippet, and link. Built for media monitoring, brand tracking, market research, and content pipelines.

⚡ Works out of the box — reads Google News' public RSS feeds. No API key, no signup, no proxy needed for normal volumes.

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What it does

For each search query, the Actor reads the official Google News search RSS feed and extracts structured article data — articles matching any query you provide (e.g. openai, interest rates, a brand name, a ticker).

Output is one row per article, deduplicated across all queries, newest-first.

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Who it's for

• PR & comms teams — monitor brand, executives, and competitor coverage.
• Market researchers & analysts — track an industry, ticker, or theme over time.
• Journalists — sweep a beat across many sources at once.
• Content & SEO teams — find trending angles and source material.
• Builders — pipe a structured news feed into dashboards, alerts, or LLM workflows.

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Popular monitoring use cases

• Brand monitoring - track mentions of your company, products, founders, and executives.
• Competitor news tracking - monitor launches, funding, hiring, lawsuits, partnerships, and pricing changes.
• Industry trend monitoring - follow themes like AI regulation, climate tech, fintech, or healthcare policy.
• Stock and market news feeds - collect recent Google News results for tickers, companies, and sectors.
• PR and crisis alerts - schedule searches around sensitive topics and export fresh coverage.
• LLM news pipelines - feed headlines, snippets, sources, and dates into dashboards or AI workflows.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	—	Search terms
queriesText	string	—	Queries as text (one per line / comma-separated)
geo	string	"US"	Country code (gl)
language	string	"en"	Language code (hl)
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	50	Cap per query/topic (max 100)
maxQueries	integer	100	Max search queries
dedupe	boolean	true	Remove duplicate articles across queries
requestDelayMs	integer	500	Delay between feed requests
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel feed requests
proxyConfiguration	object	—	Optional, for high volume

At least one of queries / queriesText is required.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "climate tech", "interest rates"],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50
}

More in examples/.

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Ready-to-run task ideas

Brand News Monitoring

{
  "queriesText": "your brand name\nyour ceo name\nyour main competitor\nyour product line",
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
  "dedupe": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}

Competitor Launch Tracker

{
  "queries": [
    "competitor funding",
    "competitor product launch",
    "competitor partnership",
    "competitor acquisition"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

AI Industry News Feed

{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence regulation",
    "generative AI startups",
    "AI search engines",
    "large language models"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 75,
  "dedupe": true
}

Stock Market News Monitor

{
  "queries": [
    "Nvidia stock news",
    "Tesla stock news",
    "Microsoft earnings",
    "Federal Reserve interest rates"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

Crisis & PR Alert Feed

{
  "queries": [
    "\"your brand\" lawsuit",
    "\"your brand\" outage",
    "\"your brand\" data breach",
    "\"your brand\" controversy"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
  "dedupe": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}

Startup Funding News

{
  "queries": [
    "startup funding round",
    "venture capital investment",
    "series A funding",
    "startup acquisition"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 75,
  "dedupe": true
}

Cybersecurity Breach Monitor

{
  "queries": [
    "data breach",
    "ransomware attack",
    "cybersecurity incident",
    "security vulnerability"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 75,
  "dedupe": true
}

Healthcare Policy News

{
  "queries": [
    "healthcare policy",
    "Medicare news",
    "FDA approval",
    "health insurance regulation"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

Crypto Market News

{
  "queries": [
    "Bitcoin ETF news",
    "Ethereum regulation",
    "crypto market news",
    "stablecoin legislation"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

Real Estate Market Monitor

{
  "queries": [
    "mortgage rates",
    "housing market news",
    "commercial real estate",
    "home prices"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

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Output

One dataset row per article:

{
  "query": "openai",
  "queryType": "search",
  "title": "OpenAI ships new model & tools",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/ABC123?oc=5",
  "source": "The Verge",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T14:30:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "OpenAI ships new model The Verge",
  "guid": "ABC123",
  "position": 1,
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-06-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Key-value store outputs

• HEADLINES_BY_SOURCE — article titles grouped by publisher
• SUMMARY — totals, top sources, top queries by volume
• ERRORS — any failed feeds

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Notes & limitations

• googleNewsUrl is the Google News redirect link (not the publisher's direct URL). Decoding to the final URL is intentionally not attempted — it's fragile and changes often. The source field tells you the publisher.
• Google News RSS returns up to ~100 items per feed and favors recent coverage — it's not a full historical archive.
• Results are localized by geo + language.
• For very high volume or repeated scheduled runs, enable Apify Proxy to avoid rate limits.
• Public RSS data only — no login, no paywalled content.

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Related tools

Part of a Google data-tools suite:

• Google Autocomplete Keyword Scraper
• Google Trends Keyword Monitor
• Google Trends Content Calendar Generator
• Keyword Difficulty Checker

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.