Google News Scraper - Articles, Publisher URLs & Dates

Google News scraper for keywords, brands and topics: headline, publisher, the real article URL on the publisher's site, snippet, exact publish time (UTC) and Google's story cluster ID. 18 countries, time window filter (past hour, day, week, month, year), newest-first sorting, bulk queries, export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

What does Google News Scraper do?

Type the searches you care about (for example electric vehicles, "Acme Corp" or site:reuters.com tesla), pick a country and a time window, and the actor returns every article Google News shows for each search, one row per article, in Google's order or newest first. It reads further result pages when you ask for more articles per query.

Every row carries the publisher's own article URL, not a Google redirect link, so you can open, deduplicate or crawl the article directly.

It needs no login, no Google account and no proxy setup on your side: pages are fetched through Apify's Google SERP proxy, which is included in the price.

Who is it for?

• PR and communications teams: track press coverage of your company, products and executives every hour or every day.
• Brand and reputation monitoring: catch new articles about a brand or competitor as soon as Google indexes them.
• Market and investment research: follow news on companies, sectors and topics across 18 countries.
• AI and data teams: feed fresh, dated news URLs into RAG pipelines, summarizers and sentiment models.
• SEO and content teams: see which publishers rank in Google News for a topic.

What data can you get?

Field	Example
query	electric vehicles
country	US
position	1 (rank in Google News for that query)
title	BMW Asked Americans How Much EV Range They Need. The Answer Is Surprising
source	bmwblog (publisher name as Google shows it)
url	https://www.bmwblog.com/2026/10/09/bmw-asks-americans-how-much-ev-range-need/
domain	bmwblog.com
urlResolved	true when url is the publisher's URL
snippet	Short summary Google shows under the headline
publishedAt	2026-10-09T11:41:48Z (exact UTC time)
ageText	1 day ago (as shown, in the page language)
storyClusterId	Google's ID for the story; articles about the same event share it
googleUrl	Google's redirect link for the article
scrapedAt	When the run collected the row

Fields stay empty (null) when Google does not show that detail. Google shows no snippet for some grouped articles.

How much does it cost?

You pay only for results: $2.50 per 1,000 articles ($0.0025 per article) on the Free plan, with Store discounts on paid Apify plans: Bronze $2.25, Silver $2.125, Gold and above $2.00 per 1,000 articles. The Google SERP proxy is included; there is nothing else to buy.

Worked example: 10 brands monitored once a day with 20 articles each = 200 articles a day = 200 x $0.0025 = $0.50 a day, about $15 a month on the Free plan.

Set "Max articles per query", "Max articles in total" or a maximum cost per run to cap spending.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter one or more Search queries and choose the Country and, if you want, a Language.
3. Choose Published within (for monitoring use "Past 24 hours" or "Past hour") and turn on Sort by date for newest first.
4. Set Max articles per query (one results page holds about 10 articles).
5. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
6. For daily monitoring, save the input as a task and add a schedule.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["Elektroauto", "Bundesliga"],
  "countryCode": "de",
  "timeRange": "day",
  "sortByDate": true,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 20
}

Output example

Row from a QA run on 2026-10-10:

{
  "query": "interest rates",
  "country": "GB",
  "position": 2,
  "title": "Average five-year mortgage rate hits 6% for first time in three years",
  "source": "BBC",
  "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4yxpry5e9o",
  "domain": "bbc.co.uk",
  "urlResolved": true,
  "snippet": "The average interest rate on a new five-year fixed mortgage deal has hit 6% for the first time in three years, figures show. The cost of home loans has been...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-05T09:02:21Z",
  "ageText": "5 days ago",
  "storyClusterId": "4858065454",
  "googleUrl": "https://www.google.co.uk/goto?url=CAESbAHrOzAV...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T12:26:17.231014Z"
}

A German row (countryCode: "de") looks the same, with texts in German, for example "ageText": "vor 52 Minuten".

Supported countries

United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico and Japan.

Integrations and API

Run it from your code with the Apify API or the apify-client package, schedule it in Apify, or connect it to Make, n8n, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kamerozkan/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["electric vehicles"],
    "countryCode": "us",
    "timeRange": "day",
    "sortByDate": True,
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 30,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["publishedAt"], item["source"], item["title"], item["url"])

FAQ

How many articles do I get per query? About 10 per results page; the actor reads further pages until it reaches your limit or Google has no more new articles. Google usually shows up to a few hundred articles per query.

Do I get the real article link? Yes. Google's result links are redirects; the actor follows each one once and returns the publisher's URL in url and its domain. If a link ever cannot be resolved, url keeps the Google link and urlResolved is false.

Does it return the full article text? No. It returns the headline, snippet, publisher, URL and publish time. Use the URL with a website content crawler if you need the full text.

How do I monitor news without duplicates? Run it on a schedule with "Past hour" or "Past 24 hours" and keep rows by url. Articles about the same event share a storyClusterId.

Is it legal to collect this data? It collects publicly visible search results (headlines, snippets and links). You are responsible for how you use the data and for following the laws and copyright rules that apply to you.

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