Google News Scraper

📰 What is Google News Scraper?

Google News Scraper lets marketers, PR teams, researchers and developers collect Google News articles in bulk from search terms, topic sections or Google News links. Just type a search term and click Start to get each article's headline, publisher, publication date and the publisher's own URL, plus a snippet, image, author, section and keywords when the publisher's page allows it. The Apify Free plan saves up to 10 articles per run, as many runs as your $5 monthly credit covers, with no Google account, login or cookies needed.

Think of it as a no-code Google News extractor: you fill in a form and get structured results that you can open in a spreadsheet, send to an AI agent or load into your own database.

• News monitoring: follow a company, person or product with scheduled daily runs.
• Brand monitoring and PR: see which outlets mention your brand, when they did, and who wrote the article.
• Media monitoring: add fresh articles to the reports or media monitoring tools you already use.
• Market and competitor research: track the news about your industry or competitors by country and language.
• AI and RAG pipelines: feed fresh Google News headlines with dates and links to LLMs, agents and vector stores.
• Research datasets: build a Google News dataset by topic, edition and date for analysis.
• Weekly reports: move Google News to Excel or Google Sheets without copy-paste.

What can Google News Scraper do?

• 🔍 Search Google News by search terms, with Google News search operators such as quotes, OR, intitle: and -word
• 🗂️ Read topic sections: Top stories, World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science and Health
• 🔗 Paste Google News links in bulk: search links, topic links and the home page, one per line
• 📅 Filter by time: past hour to past year, or an exact date range
• 🏢 Filter publishers: keep only chosen sites or skip the ones you don't want
• 📍 Pick an edition: choose the country and the Google News search language
• 📝 Get article details from the publisher's page: snippet, image, author, section, keywords, published and modified times
• 🧵 See related coverage: related articles from other publishers that Google groups with each story
• ⚡ Watch results arrive live: each article appears in the Output tab while the run is still going
• 🔌 Use it as a news API: run it through the Apify API, schedule it, and connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n or Google Sheets

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📊 Google News Scraper data: what can it extract?

You can extract Google News data for every article Google shows for your search or topic. Each row of the dataset has these fields:

Field	What it contains
🔢 position	Rank of the article in this run (1 = first)
🏷️ title, title_full	Headline without and with the publisher name
🔗 link, google_news_url, canonical_url	Publisher article URL, the news.google.com link, and the page's preferred URL
🏢 source	Publisher name, for example CBS News
🌐 domain, source_url, site_name, favicon	Publisher domain, home page, site name and site icon
📅 date, date_utc, published_ts	"26 minutes ago", ISO time in UTC, and Unix timestamp
📅 published_time, modified_time	Published and last-modified time stated by the article page
📝 snippet	Short summary from the article page
📸 thumbnail	Article image URL
👤 author	Author name(s)
🗂️ section, og_type	Section or category, and the page type (for example article)
🔑 keywords	Keywords listed by the article page
📏 word_count	Word count stated by the article page
🧵 related_count, related_articles	Related articles Google groups with this one (title, source, Google News link)
🔍 query	The search term or topic that found the article
🔤 article_language, search_language	Language of the article page and of the Google News edition
📍 country	Country of the Google News edition
🚦 article_status, url_resolved	Whether the article page could be read, and whether the publisher link was found
⏱️ scraped_at	When the run collected the article (UTC)

Each run also fills two free side tables, Related articles (one row per related article) and Inputs (one row per search term, topic or link, with its status and article count), and saves a Run summary with the totals. See If something goes wrong for where to find them.

Note: snippet, thumbnail, author, section, keywords and the other page details come from the publisher's own page. Some publishers don't allow automated page reads, so these fields stay empty for them, and article_status tells you why. If you turn off Article details, author, section, keywords and the other page-detail columns are left out, and snippet and thumbnail stay empty. If you turn off Real publisher links, link is the Google News link and url_resolved is left out.

What data can't Google News Scraper extract?

It is a news article scraper for headlines and article metadata, so it does not return:

• The full article body text (you get the page's own summary as snippet)
• Content behind publisher paywalls
• Personalised "For you" feeds, because the Actor uses no login
• Comments or social media engagement on the articles

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🛠️ How to scrape Google News

Google News Scraper is built for an easy start, even if you have never extracted data from the web before. Here are the five steps:

1. Create a free Apify account using your email.
2. Open Google News Scraper in Apify Store.
3. Type a search term, such as Elon Musk (or paste a Google News link, or pick a topic). If you leave all three empty, the run collects the top stories.
4. Click Start and watch the articles arrive in the Output tab.
5. Download your results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

You can scrape news articles for one search term or for many search terms in the same run.

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💲 Google News Scraper pricing: how much does it cost to scrape Google News?

Google News Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. Your bill has three parts:

1. Articles: you pay for each article saved to the main dataset. The price depends on your Apify plan (table below). Rows in the Related articles and Inputs tables are free.
2. Start fee: $0.00005 per run at the default memory setting.
3. Platform usage: the compute the run uses, billed to you at your plan's normal platform rates.

Apify plan	Price per article	Price per 1,000 articles
💲 Free	$0.004	$4.00
💲 Starter	$0.0036	$3.60
💲 Scale	$0.0032	$3.20
💲 Business and higher	$0.0028	$2.80

The plan discount applies to the article price only. The start fee is the same on every plan, and platform usage is billed at your Apify plan's own rates. Platform usage depends on how many articles you collect and on settings like Article details, so do a small test run first and open the run page afterwards to see the exact cost. See the pricing tab for the current prices.

Example: 1,000 articles. Free runs stop at 10 articles, so 1,000 articles in one run need a paid plan. The articles cost $3.60 on Starter, $3.20 on Scale or $2.80 on Business and higher, plus the $0.00005 start fee and platform usage.

⚠️ Maximum articles set to 0 collects as many articles as can be found, which can cost more than you expect. Set a maximum charge limit in the run options when you start the run. Google News Scraper stops cleanly when the limit is reached and keeps every article it has already saved.

Is there a free Google News scraper?

Yes. You can try Google News Scraper free with the Apify Free plan. It gives you $5 in monthly credit, which pays for articles, start fees and platform usage together. Free runs save up to 10 articles each, and you can start as many runs as the credit covers. Ten articles cost $0.04 plus the start fee and platform usage, so a small test run shows how far the credit goes for your searches.

If you are on the Free plan and set Maximum articles above 10 (or to 0), the run still starts normally. It shows a status message that the run is limited to 10 articles, saves the first 10 and then finishes. Any paid Apify plan removes the 10-article limit.

Can I use a Google News API free of charge?

API access to Google News Scraper is included at no extra cost. Runs you start through the API cost the same as runs you start in Apify Console: the articles you collect, the start fee and platform usage.

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⬇️ Input

You don't have to fill in anything: an empty input collects the top stories. To get your own news, add at least one search term, Google News link or topic. In Apify Console you fill in a form; the JSON below is the same input for the API.

Settings most people change

Field	What it does
🔍 queries (Search terms)	One search term per line, as you would type it in Google News
🔗 urls (Google News links)	Google News search links, topic links or the home page, one per line
🗂️ topics (Topics)	Headline sections to read in addition to the searches
🔢 maxItems (Maximum articles)	Total articles to save for the whole run, across all inputs. Default 10. 0 means as many as can be found
📍 country (Country edition)	Two-letter country code, for example US, GB or DE. Default US
🔤 language (News language)	Language code, for example en, fr, de or pt-BR. Default en
📅 timePeriod (Time period)	Any time, past hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 2 weeks, 3 months or year. Default any time

Other settings

Field	What it does
📅 dateFrom, dateTo (From date, To date)	Exact range in YYYY-MM-DD. Takes priority over the time period
🔃 sort (Sort order)	relevance (default) or date for newest first
🏢 includeSites (Only these publishers)	Keep only articles from these domains, for example bbc.com. For topics, other publishers are removed; for search terms, a few articles from other publishers can still appear
🚫 excludeSites (Skip these publishers)	Never return articles from these domains
🔗 resolveUrls (Real publisher links)	Return the publisher's own URL instead of the Google News link. On by default. Doesn't change the price per article, but makes the run a little slower
📝 articleDetails (Article details)	Read each article page for snippet, image, author and more. On by default. Doesn't change the price per article, but makes the run a little slower
🛡️ proxyConfiguration (Proxy configuration)	Optional Apify Proxy settings. Off by default; most runs don't need changes

Here's an example that collects 10 articles for one search term:

{
  "queries": ["Elon Musk"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

See the input tab for a full description of every field.

Search terms

Type each search term on its own line. The usual Google News search operators work: "exact phrase", OR, intitle: and -word. They help when a plain Google News article search returns too many loosely related stories.

• ✅ Good: "electric vehicles" -Tesla
• ✅ Good: intitle:inflation

Google News links

Paste links from news.google.com. Search links, topic links and the home page work. Each link is turned into a search or topic, and the search term inside the link shows up in the query field.

• ✅ Good: https://news.google.com/search?q=Elon%20Musk
• ❌ Bad: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-article/ (a publisher article, not a Google News page)

⚠️ Links that are not Google News search or topic links are skipped and listed in the Inputs table. If no valid link, search term or topic is left, the run stops right away with an input problem.

Date range and time period

Use either Time period (past hour to past year) or a Google News date range with From date and To date. If both are set, the date range wins.

• ✅ Good: "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-15"
• ❌ Bad: "dateFrom": "2026-10-15", "dateTo": "2026-10-01" (From date after To date)

⚠️ A From date in the future stops the run with an input problem. A To date in the future is changed to today.

Sort order

To make Google News sort by date, set Sort order to Newest first (date). Keep Relevance for Google's own order.

Country edition and News language

Country edition and News language choose which Google News edition you read, for example DE + de or FR + fr. Some country and language pairs don't exist on Google News. In that case Google serves another edition, the log tells you, and country and search_language show the edition you actually got.

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⬆️ Output

Results are stored in a dataset in the Output or Storage tab. You can view them in five ready views (Overview, Publishers, Article details, Links and Run info) and pick only the fields you need. Download the Google News data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML. To export Google News to CSV later, open Storage → Datasets → Export.

JSON example

The first result for the input example above (some fields are left out for space):

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Elon Musk donates over $150 million to Senate GOP group, assisting Ken Paxton",
  "link": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-midterm-donations-texas-ken-paxton/",
  "domain": "cbsnews.com",
  "source": "CBS News",
  "date": "26 minutes ago",
  "date_utc": "2026-10-16T19:19:32.000Z",
  "snippet": "Billionaire Elon Musk is offering a nine-figure assist to Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton...",
  "thumbnail": "https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/.../thumbnail/1200x630/...jpg",
  "google_news_url": "https://news.google.com/articles/CBMi...",
  "source_url": "https://www.cbsnews.com",
  "title_full": "Elon Musk donates over $150 million to Senate GOP group, assisting Ken Paxton - CBS News",
  "published_ts": 1792178372,
  "query": "Elon Musk",
  "related_count": 0,
  "related_articles": [],
  "author": "Joe Walsh",
  "section": "Politics",
  "keywords": "Elon Musk, Texas",
  "site_name": "CBS News",
  "article_language": "en-US",
  "og_type": "article",
  "article_status": "ok",
  "url_resolved": true,
  "country": "US",
  "search_language": "en",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-16T19:46:18Z"
}

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💡 Tips and advanced usage

How many results can you scrape with Google News Scraper?

One Google News page shows about 100 articles for a search. For a single search term, a higher Maximum articles (up to 100,000) lets the Actor find more articles than one Google News page shows; the real number depends on how much news exists. You can also add more search terms (for example one per product or person) or run the same search for different date ranges. The result also depends on how much news exists, your filters and your plan (10 articles per run on the Free plan). A quick test run shows what you get for your own searches.

How to get Google News headlines today

Pick the Top stories topic (or any other section), set Time period to Past 24 hours, and set Sort order to Newest first. Schedule the run every morning for a daily digest.

How to get faster or cheaper results

• Turn off Real publisher links and Article details if you only need headlines, publishers and dates. The run finishes faster, which can lower platform usage.
• Set Maximum articles to the number of articles you really need.
• Use Only these publishers or a short time period to skip articles you would delete anyway.
• Put many search terms into one run instead of starting one run per term, so you pay the start fee once.

If something goes wrong

Where to look. Open the run in Apify Console. Next to the article views, the Output tab links to Related articles, Inputs and Run summary. They are also in the run's Storage tab. The Inputs table has one row per search term, topic or link, with its status (ok, empty or failed), the number of articles saved and a short problem note.

Empty article details. The article_status field tells you what happened with each article page:

Value	Meaning
🚦 ok	The page was read
🚦 not fetched (no publisher URL)	The publisher link wasn't found, so the page wasn't opened
🚦 page has no metadata (consent/bot wall?)	The page opened, but showed no article data, for example a cookie-consent page
🚦 HTTP and a number, such as HTTP 404	The publisher's page returned an error
🚦 unreachable (...)	The publisher's page didn't load

Input problem. If an input can't be used, the run stops at the start. Its status message begins with "Input problem:", for example Input problem: From date 2026-10-15 is after To date 2026-10-01. Fix that field and start again. No articles are saved, so you pay no article charges, only the start fee and the platform usage of the short run.

Run without articles. If Google News can't be reached, the run ends with the status "No articles were collected. Check the log for details". If nothing matches, it says "No articles matched your input. Try broader search terms or fewer filters". In both cases you pay only for articles that were actually saved, plus the start fee and platform usage. If a run stops early, every article saved before that point is kept.

Known issues

• Some publishers block automated page reads. Snippet, image and author then stay empty, and article_status explains why. The headline, publisher, date and links are still saved.
• If a publisher uses the same description or image on many of its articles, the Actor treats it as a site default and leaves snippet or thumbnail empty rather than returning wrong data.
• With Only these publishers on search terms, a few articles from other publishers can still appear. The log counts them so you can filter them out.
• If publisher links can't be found for many articles in a row, the remaining rows keep the Google News link and url_resolved is false.

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🔌 Google News Scraper integrations and API

Can I use Google News Scraper as a news scraper API?

Yes. Every run can be started, scheduled and read through the Apify API, so you get a Google News search API without running your own servers. Use the apify-client NPM package for Node.js or the apify-client PyPI package for Python. The API tab has ready-to-use code. Schedule one run per brand or topic, and your app has a simple news monitoring API.

How to scrape Google News with Python

You don't need a separate Google News Python API: the apify-client package starts the Actor and returns the results. Here's a Google News Scraper Python example for one search term:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("insights_data/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["Elon Musk"],
    "maxItems": 10,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item["source"], item["link"])

Can I integrate Google News Scraper with other apps?

Yes. Connect Google News Scraper with almost any cloud service through Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub, LangChain and more. Use webhooks to trigger actions when a run finishes. For example, schedule a daily search for your brand name and send the new headlines to a Slack channel.

Can I use Google News Scraper with AI agents (MCP)?

Yes. Connect Google News Scraper to Claude and other AI assistants through the Apify MCP server, so your agent can look up current news on its own. Open the MCP tab for setup steps.

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🧩 Other Google scrapers

These tools from the same developer cover other Google data and work well next to Google News Scraper:

Actor	What it does
📢 Google Ads Transparency Center Scraper & API	Extract ads across Search, YouTube, Shopping, Maps and Play by brand, domain or advertiser ID
📈 Keyword Search Volume — Bulk Google Metrics (CPC & Trend)	Get Google search volume, CPC, ad competition and a 12-month trend for thousands of keywords
🏨 Google Hotels Scraper	Scrape Google Hotels prices, ratings, amenities, photos and booking links for any city or hotel
✈️ Google Flights Prices API	Get live Google Flights fares, schedules, stops, airlines and booking options

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❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google News?

Web scraping is generally legal when you extract publicly available data, and Google News headlines, publishers and links are public. However, you should respect personal data rules (for example GDPR) and intellectual property, only collect personal data such as author names with a legitimate reason, and take Google's Terms of Service and each publisher's terms into account. Article text belongs to its publisher. This is not legal advice; check with a lawyer for your use case.

How does Google News Scraper work?

It is a Google News web scraper that works like a person browsing Google News, only faster. It turns each link, search term and topic into a Google News search, collects the matching articles, removes repeated ones, applies your date and publisher filters, and then (if you want) opens each article to find the publisher's link and page details. Each article is saved as soon as it is ready, so you can watch the Output tab fill up during the run.

Is there an official Google News API?

No. Google offers no official public Google News API for reading other publishers' news. Google News Scraper gives you that data with JSON output, scheduling and integrations, without building or maintaining your own Google News crawler.

How is Google News Scraper different from copying news by hand?

Feature	Google News Scraper	Copying from Google News by hand
Many searches and topics at once	✅	❌
Real publisher links and domains	✅	✅ (one click per article)
Author, snippet, image and keywords in one table	✅	❌
Lists of publishers to keep or skip	✅	❌
Export to JSON, CSV or Excel	✅	❌
Scheduled daily runs	✅	❌

It is a news scraper tool, not a full news monitoring software suite: you get the raw article data and decide where it goes.

Which sections are in the Google News topics list?

The Actor can read nine sections: Top stories, World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science and Health. Nation is the national news section of the country edition you picked (for example U.S. news for US). Each topic is read for the chosen country and language.

Why am I getting fewer results than expected?

• Check Maximum articles: the default is 10.
• On the Free plan, each run saves up to 10 articles.
• One Google News page shows about 100 articles for a search. With a higher Maximum articles, the Actor can find more for the same search; you can also add more search terms or date ranges.
• A short time period, a strict date range or Only these publishers removes articles.
• Repeated articles are removed automatically.
• Open the Inputs table: it shows the status and article count for each search term, topic or link.

Can I do a Google News search by date?

Yes. Use Time period for a rolling period, such as the past 7 days, or From date and To date for an exact range. Combine it with Newest first to get the latest articles at the top.

Do I need a Google account or cookies?

No. Google News Scraper reads public Google News pages. You don't need a Google account, login, cookies or an API key.

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📧 Support and feedback

Found a bug or have a feature request? Please create an issue on the Issues tab. We keep improving Google News Scraper based on your feedback.

Need a custom solution, a new field or a news scraper for a different source? Contact us at hello.insights.data@gmail.com.

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