Google News Scraper: articles, real publisher URLs and monitoring

Scrape Google News search results, top stories and topic sections. Every article includes:

• the real publisher URL, resolved from the news.google.com redirect;
• title, source, publication date, and the Google News link;
• related coverage of the same story from other outlets, for top stories.

Why this one:

• $1 per 1,000 articles, publisher URLs included. No start fee, no monthly rent.
• Past the 100-result cap. A Google News search returns at most 100 articles. Set a date range and the Actor searches one day at a time. In a test, "bitcoin" over 6 days returned 400 unique articles in 15 seconds.
• Monitoring mode (onlyNewArticles): schedule it, and each run returns only articles you haven't seen yet.
• Any edition: any language and country, e.g. en/US, fr/FR, en/KE, pt-BR/BR.
• Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:.
• No browser, no login. Runs on Apify's datacenter proxy.

Use cases

• Brand and competitor monitoring: a daily feed of every article that mentions you or a competitor, pushed to Slack, Sheets or a webhook.
• PR and media lists: which outlets cover a topic, and how often.
• Finance and crypto news signals: timestamped headlines for a ticker or coin, ready for sentiment models.
• Research and datasets: news coverage over time for any topic, in any country edition.
• AI and RAG pipelines: fresh article URLs to fetch and summarize. AI agents calling this Actor through the Apify MCP server get a one-line summary in the status message.

Ready-made tasks (one click to run)

• Monitor new news articles about a brand (daily)
• Crypto news from the last 24 hours (Bitcoin, Ethereum)
• Top news stories and business news by country

Input

Field	What it does
queries	Search terms, with Google News operators.
topics	Optional sections: TOP_STORIES, WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH.
language, country	Edition, e.g. en + US.
timeRange	any, 1h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y (search queries).
dateFrom, dateTo	Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Searches day by day to go past 100 results.
maxArticlesPerQuery	Default 100.
decodeUrls	Resolve real publisher URLs (default on, no extra charge).
onlyNewArticles	Monitoring: skip articles from earlier runs.

{
  "queries": ["electric vehicles", "site:reuters.com central bank"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100
}

Output

One row per article (a real result from a test run on 2026-10-02):

{
  "topic": "TECHNOLOGY",
  "position": 23,
  "title": "Only one browser has this really helpful search tool",
  "publisher": "The Washington Post",
  "publisherHomepage": "https://www.washingtonpost.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-02T21:00:00.000Z",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/02/search-without-ai-or-your-browser-history-with-mozilla-firefox/",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxO…?oc=5",
  "googleNewsId": "CBMitwFBVV95cUxO…",
  "relatedArticles": [],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-02T21:41:05.724Z"
}

Top stories carry relatedArticles: the same story from other outlets, each with title, publisher and googleNewsUrl.

The SUMMARY record lists, for each query or topic, the articles saved, the date span, the top 5 sources and the newest headline. The run's status message says the same in one line:

Saved 170 articles from 2 search(es). "electric vehicles": 100 articles (2026-09-24 to 2026-10-02);
top sources Electrek 9, Yahoo Finance 9, autos.yahoo.com 4; newest "Here's How Ford Stock Performed …" (Ford Authority). …

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Article saved (article)	$0.001 ($1 per 1,000), publisher URL included

Failed feeds are never charged. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly.

Notes and limits

• Google News lists what it chooses to index. Small outlets may be missing, and counts differ by edition.
• Publication dates come from Google News, and some are rounded to the hour or day.
• If a publisher URL can't be resolved, the row keeps the Google News link and articleUrl is null. In our tests, 190 of 190 resolved.
• The Actor reads Google News' public RSS feeds. It doesn't fetch the article text from publishers.

FAQ

How do I get every article about a topic for a whole month? Set dateFrom and dateTo, and raise maxArticlesPerQuery, e.g. to 3,000. The Actor runs one search per day and removes duplicates.

How do I get alerts for new articles?

1. Turn on onlyNewArticles.
2. Save the input as a task.
3. Schedule it hourly or daily.
4. Connect the dataset to Slack, email, Google Sheets or a webhook with Apify integrations.

Can I search in another language? Yes. Set language and country to the edition you want, e.g. de + DE.

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