Google News Scraper: Articles, Topics & Real URLs

Scrape Google News for any search term, topic section or the top stories, in any country and language. Every article comes with its title, source, publish time and the real publisher URL (decoded from the news.google.com redirect links), plus related coverage for topic stories.

No login, no API key and no browser: the Actor reads the data directly, which makes it fast and cheap. Proxies are included in the price.

What can you use it for?

• Media monitoring: track every article that mentions your brand, competitors or executives.
• PR & reputation: see which outlets cover a story and when.
• Market & investment research: follow news on companies, sectors and tickers.
• AI & LLM pipelines: feed fresh news into summarizers, alerts or RAG.
• Content curation: build newsletters and news feeds automatically.

Features

Inputs	Search terms (with Google operators), topic sections, top stories
Filters	Published within the past hour, day, week, month or year
Editions	Any country and language Google News supports
Per article	Title, source name and site, publish time, real article URL, Google News URL, rank, related articles
Speed	About 100 articles in a few seconds

How to use

1. Fill in the input (the form explains every field).
2. Click Start.
3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or use them through the API, webhooks, Zapier, Make or n8n.

Input example

{
    "queries": [
        "openai",
        "site:reuters.com tesla"
    ],
    "topics": [
        "TECHNOLOGY"
    ],
    "timeRange": "7d",
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en"
}

Output example

{
    "title": "Securing our frontier model training environment",
    "source": "OpenAI",
    "sourceUrl": "https://openai.com",
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5EQVY3Q0FYVVg3MU1JeDdHREJsV1RqbTFIdG03VWN2NWhGdFNwczlRdkV5ME9FOWRnWmdxMHZFYXJTc0haNXg0RnRzSVhSMzhqVHNfVVZK...",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-23T18:36:34.000Z",
    "relatedArticles": [],
    "feed": "openai",
    "rank": 1,
    "url": "https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment/",
    "urlResolved": true
}

Inputs that cannot be scraped (wrong URL, not found, blocked) get a free row with status and error, so you always know what happened. A run summary is saved to the key-value store as SUMMARY.

Pricing

You pay per article saved. Proxies and compute are included. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

Why are there at most 100 articles per search? Google News returns up to 100 results per feed. Use more specific or several search terms (e.g. add site: or a time range) to collect more.

What does "Resolve real article URLs" do? Google News links point to news.google.com. With this option the Actor asks Google News for the original publisher link, the same way the news site does when you click.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Schedule it every hour with a "Past hour" time range to get a live news feed.

Can I call it from code or an AI agent? Yes, via the Apify API, the official JS/Python clients, or Apify's MCP server.