# Google News Scraper (`groupoject/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword or topic for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, market research, headlines, sources, dates, and snippets. No API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/groupoject/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Group Oject](https://apify.com/groupoject) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, AI
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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.

---

### 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.

---

### 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.

---

### 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.

---

### 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

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

More in [`examples/`](examples/).

***

### Ready-to-run task ideas

#### Brand News Monitoring

```json
{
  "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

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

#### AI Industry News Feed

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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

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

#### Cybersecurity Breach Monitor

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

#### Healthcare Policy News

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

#### Crypto Market News

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

#### Real Estate Market Monitor

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

***

### Output

One dataset row per article:

```json
{
  "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

***

### 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.

***

### Related tools

Part of a Google data-tools suite:

- [Google Autocomplete Keyword Scraper](https://apify.com/groupoject/google-autocomplete-scraper)
- [Google Trends Keyword Monitor](https://apify.com/groupoject/trendpulse-keyword-monitor)
- [Google Trends Content Calendar Generator](https://apify.com/groupoject/trendpulse-content-calendar)
- [Keyword Difficulty Checker](https://apify.com/groupoject/keyword-difficulty-checker)

***

### Changelog

See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Search terms to pull Google News articles for. You can also paste them as text below, and/or pick topics.

## `queriesText` (type: `string`):

Paste one query per line or comma-separated.

## `geo` (type: `string`):

Google News country code, e.g. US, GB, CA, FR, DE.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code, e.g. en, fr, es, de.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap on articles kept per query/topic (Google News RSS returns up to ~100).

## `maxQueries` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of search queries to process.

## `dedupe` (type: `boolean`):

Remove duplicate articles (same link) across all queries.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between feed requests.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel feed requests. Keep modest; add a proxy for high volume.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Use Apify Proxy for large/repeated runs to avoid rate limits.

## `debugMode` (type: `boolean`):

Verbose logging.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "openai",
    "climate tech",
    "interest rates"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "maxQueries": 100,
  "dedupe": true,
  "requestDelayMs": 500,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  },
  "debugMode": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

One row per article: title, source, publish date, snippet, link.

## `headlinesBySource` (type: `string`):

Article titles grouped by publisher.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Totals, top sources, top queries by volume.

## `errors` (type: `string`):

Feeds that failed to fetch.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "openai",
        "climate tech",
        "interest rates"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("groupoject/google-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": [
        "openai",
        "climate tech",
        "interest rates",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("groupoject/google-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "openai",
    "climate tech",
    "interest rates"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call groupoject/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=groupoject/google-news-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Google News Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape Google News by keyword or topic for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, market research, headlines, sources, dates, and snippets. No API key required.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "h7TN47FuQgPOLBkj1"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/groupoject~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-groupoject-google-news-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/groupoject~google-news-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-groupoject-google-news-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/groupoject~google-news-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-groupoject-google-news-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "queries": {
                        "title": "Search queries",
                        "uniqueItems": true,
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Search terms to pull Google News articles for. You can also paste them as text below, and/or pick topics.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "queriesText": {
                        "title": "Search queries as text",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Paste one query per line or comma-separated."
                    },
                    "geo": {
                        "title": "Country (gl)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Google News country code, e.g. US, GB, CA, FR, DE.",
                        "default": "US"
                    },
                    "language": {
                        "title": "Language (hl)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Language code, e.g. en, fr, es, de.",
                        "default": "en"
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerQuery": {
                        "title": "Max articles per query",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 100,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Cap on articles kept per query/topic (Google News RSS returns up to ~100).",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "maxQueries": {
                        "title": "Max search queries",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of search queries to process.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "dedupe": {
                        "title": "Deduplicate articles",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Remove duplicate articles (same link) across all queries.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "requestDelayMs": {
                        "title": "Request delay (ms)",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "maximum": 10000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Delay between feed requests.",
                        "default": 500
                    },
                    "maxConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Max concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Parallel feed requests. Keep modest; add a proxy for high volume.",
                        "default": 3
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Optional. Use Apify Proxy for large/repeated runs to avoid rate limits."
                    },
                    "debugMode": {
                        "title": "Debug mode",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Verbose logging.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0.00005
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```