Google News Scraper

Scrape Google News articles by keyword — extract headlines, URLs, publication dates, source names, and descriptions. Monitor news coverage for any topic, brand, or industry in real-time.

Features

• Real-time news data — scrape the latest articles from Google News RSS feeds
• Multiple search queries — process several topics in a single run
• Time range filters — filter articles by hour, day, week, month, or year
• Multi-language support — scrape news in 40+ languages and 70+ country editions
• Source attribution — extract publisher name and URL for each article
• HTML fallback — automatically switches to HTML parsing if RSS is unavailable
• Clean output — HTML tags stripped from titles and descriptions

Output Example

{
  "title": "OpenAI Announces GPT-5 with Advanced Reasoning Capabilities",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-announces...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T14:30:00.000Z",
  "description": "OpenAI unveiled its latest language model on Monday, featuring significant improvements in mathematical reasoning and code generation...",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use Cases

• Media monitoring — track news coverage of your brand, product, or industry across hundreds of sources
• Competitive intelligence — monitor competitor announcements, press releases, and media mentions
• Trend analysis — detect emerging topics and breaking news in your market niche
• Content curation — automatically collect articles for newsletters, digests, or research reports
• PR measurement — quantify media coverage volume and sources for PR campaign analysis

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	Array	["artificial intelligence"]	Keywords or phrases to search for in Google News
language	String	"en"	Language code (en, es, fr, de, ru, etc.)
country	String	"US"	Country code for regional news (US, GB, DE, FR, etc.)
maxArticlesPerQuery	Number	50	Maximum articles to extract per search query
timeRange	String	"week"	Time filter: hour, day, week, month, year

Cost Estimation

• ~$0.25 per 100 articles
• Processes 50+ articles per query in under 30 seconds
• Free tier: up to 100 articles with Apify free plan

FAQ

Q: How fresh are the news articles? A: Articles are scraped from Google News in real-time. Use timeRange: "hour" to get only the most recent stories. Publication dates come directly from Google News.

Q: Can I scrape news in languages other than English? A: Yes. Set the language and country parameters to get localized results. For example, language: "de" and country: "DE" for German news.

Q: Does it follow links to the original articles? A: The scraper extracts the original article URL as provided by Google News. It does not visit or scrape the full text from source websites — for that, combine this scraper with a web content extractor.

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