Google News Scraper — Headlines by Keyword & Topic

Monitor the news at scale. Give the Actor any set of search keywords or topic sections and it returns fresh Google News articles — headline, source, publish time, link and snippet — for any language and country edition. Powered by Google News's public RSS feeds, so no login and no API key.

Great for media monitoring, brand/competitor tracking, PR, research datasets, and news alerting. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Features

• 📰 Keyword & topic feeds — pull articles by search term or by section (Technology, Business, Sports…).
• 🌍 Any edition — set the language/country pair to target any Google News edition.
• 🧹 Clean headlines — Google's trailing " - Source" is stripped and the publisher is captured separately.
• 🔁 De-duplicated — overlapping queries and topics are merged within a run.
• 🎚️ Volume control — maxItemsPerFeed and maxConcurrency tune throughput and size.

What you get per article

Field	Notes
title	Clean headline (Google's trailing " - Source" is stripped out).
source	Publisher name (e.g. Reuters, BBC).
publishedAt	Publish time (RFC-822).
link	Google News article link.
snippet	Short text snippet when the feed provides one.
query / topic	Which search term or section the article came from.
language / country	The edition used (hl / gl).

Results are de-duplicated across overlapping queries/topics within a run.

Input

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "electric vehicles"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY", "BUSINESS"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 0
}

• queries — search terms, one per line.
• topics — sections: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH.
• language (hl) / country (gl) — the Google News edition, e.g. en-GB/GB, de/DE.
• maxItemsPerFeed — cap per feed (0 = all, ~100).
• maxConcurrency — feeds fetched in parallel.
• proxyConfiguration — optional; only if you hit rate limits.

Output (one row per article)

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence",
  "source": "Jacobin",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "publishedAt": "Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:47:17 GMT",
  "snippet": "…",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US"
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Search term the article was found under (empty for topic feeds).
topic	string	Topic section the article came from (empty for keyword queries).
title	string	Clean headline with the trailing " - Source" removed.
source	string	Publisher name (e.g. Reuters, BBC).
link	string (URL)	Google News article link; opens the publisher's page.
publishedAt	string	Publish time in RFC-822 format.
guid	string	Unique identifier for the article within the feed.
snippet	string	Short text snippet when the feed provides one.
language	string	Language edition used (hl), e.g. en-US.
country	string	Country edition used (gl), e.g. US.

Use cases

• Media monitoring — track a brand, product or executive across every publisher.
• Competitor tracking — watch rivals' announcements and coverage in near real time.
• PR reporting — measure share of voice and pickup for a campaign.
• Research datasets — build a labelled corpus of headlines by topic and edition.
• News alerting — trigger downstream workflows whenever new matching articles appear.

FAQ

Do I need an account or API key? No. The Actor pulls from Google News's public RSS feeds, so it needs no login, API key, or Google account.

How many articles can I get per run? Each individual Google News feed returns up to ~100 of the most relevant recent items. Combine several queries, topics, and country editions to widen coverage; maxItemsPerFeed caps how many are kept per feed (0 = all).

Is scraping Google News legal? The Actor collects only publicly available headline metadata (title, source, publish time, link, snippet). Use it responsibly and in line with Google's terms; the link opens the original publisher's page.

What's the output format? A JSON dataset with one row per article, de-duplicated across overlapping queries and topics within a run. Export as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console or API.

Can I filter or limit results? Yes. Scope results with queries, topics (sections like TECHNOLOGY or BUSINESS), language/country editions, and maxItemsPerFeed.

Can I connect this Actor to other apps? The Google News Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Related Actors

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• Reddit Scraper — posts, comments, users, and subreddits without login.
• Telegram Channel Scraper — public posts from Telegram channels, no login.
• Hacker News Scraper — stories, comments, and users from Hacker News.
• Website Content Crawler — crawl article pages into clean text for analysis or RAG.

Notes

Each Google News feed returns up to ~100 of the most relevant recent items. Use several keywords/topics (and country editions) for broader coverage. link is the Google News article link (opens the publisher's page). Only publicly available headline data is collected.