Google News Scraper — Real Article URLs & Full Text

Monitor Google News for any keyword, in any country and language, and get clean article data:

• the real publisher URL (not the news.google.com/rss/articles/... redirect most scrapers return),
• title, source, publication date and snippet,
• optionally the full article text and author, extracted from the publisher's page.

Ideal for brand monitoring, PR tracking, market intelligence, feeding LLMs/RAG with fresh news, and media research.

Why this one

• Real URLs: each Google News link is resolved to the publisher's address. In our tests, 40 of 40 links resolved.
• Full text on demand: main article text and author, ready for summarization or analysis. You only pay the full-text price when the text was actually extracted.
• Any market: language: "pt-BR", country: "BR", "de"/"DE", "en-GB"/"GB"... plus top headlines of each country.
• Time filters: last hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a year.
• Search operators: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com.

Input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "\"electric vehicles\" site:reuters.com"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "timeRange": "1d",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "fetchFullText": true
}

Output (one item per article)

Field	Description
query, title, source, sourceUrl	what was searched, headline and publisher
publishedAt	ISO date (UTC)
description	snippet from Google News
url	real publisher URL
googleNewsUrl	original Google News link
text, wordCount, author, image	with fetchFullText
urlError, fullTextError	why a URL or text could not be obtained

Example output

One real item from a test run (long texts and lists shortened):

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'",
  "source": "BBC",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.bbc.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-07T20:21:58+00:00",
  "description": "OpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk' BBC",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiW0FVX3lxTE5VQjdvVUZMXzVVUHE0TDExcHh2ejJWYnJFazh4QTVYSjFfQkcwU21KVjJvRUs4VktZbnpkNzVhSzNhMzZteHp2QnhxTDBXbHB2TWNNYVFo...",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwz0vrmxkvy4o"
}

Limits

• Google News returns up to 100 articles per query. For more, split by time range or add related queries.
• Some publishers block bots or sit behind paywalls (e.g. NYT, Bloomberg): you still get the URL and metadata, and those items are charged at the basic price.

How much does it cost?

You pay only for results delivered, at a fixed price per item. Apify platform usage is included in that price, so there are no compute costs on top. Errors and items that couldn't be found are free.

What you get	Price	Example
Article with full text	$0.003 each	1,000 article with full texts = $3.00
Article (real URL + metadata)	$0.001 each	1,000 article (real url + metadata)s = $1.00

The Apify Free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, enough for about 1,666 article with full texts per month at no cost. You can also set a maximum spend per run.

On paid Apify plans it gets cheaper automatically: 10% off on Starter, 20% on Scale and 30% on Business.

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