Google News Scraper

Google News headlines for any search query, topic or publisher, in any of Google's language and country editions, one row per article — with the publisher's real article URL instead of the Google redirect. Search operators and date filters work as on the site. $1.50 per 1,000 articles (plus $1 per 1,000 for resolved URLs), no fee per run, no fee per query, error rows free.

What is Google News Scraper?

Google News Scraper reads Google News feeds — search results, topic sections, publisher filters — and returns the headlines as a flat table you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel or pull through the API. Every Google News link is a redirect through news.google.com; this Actor resolves it to the article's own URL, so your rows point at the publisher, carry the publisher's domain, and can be fetched or deduplicated like any other link. No browser, no login, no API key.

It is built for people who watch the news in volume: media-monitoring and PR teams, brand and competitor tracking, financial and political research, and anyone feeding a news stream into a model or a dashboard.

What data can Google News Scraper extract?

Field	What it holds
title	The headline, without the " - Source" suffix Google appends
source, sourceUrl	The publisher as Google News names it, and its site
publishedAt	Publication time, ISO
articleUrl, articleDomain ($)	The publisher's own URL and domain, resolved from the Google redirect
googleUrl, articleId	The Google News link and id
relatedArticles	Other outlets' coverage of the same story: title, source, Google link
snippet	The text Google News shows under a headline, when there is one
query, scrapedAt	What you asked for and when the row was taken

Every row carries type: "article". A query that returns nothing produces one type: "error" row that says what to try; error rows cost nothing.

How much does it cost to scrape Google News?

Two events: $0.0015 per article on the free plan (down to $0.0009 on the highest plans), and $0.001 per resolved URL — on by default, off for a headline-only feed. No fee per run, no fee per query, no fee per page, no proxy charge.

Plan	Per article	Per article with resolved URL	Articles per $1 (resolved)
Free	$0.0015	$0.0025	400
Bronze	$0.0014	$0.0023	434
Silver	$0.0012	$0.002	500
Gold	$0.0011	$0.0018	555
Platinum, Diamond	$0.0009	$0.0015	666

The $5 of free monthly credit on Apify's free plan buys 2,000 resolved headlines — a daily brand watch of 60 headlines for a month.

Bulk export: what 50,000 headlines actually cost

This Actor is built for volume — hundreds of queries on a schedule. Because there is no fee per run and no fee per query, the bill is the number of headlines you keep and nothing else.

Job	This Actor	Most-used Actor in this category
50,000 articles across 100 runs	$125 (with resolved URLs)	$200

Checked on the Apify Store on 23 September 2026 against the Actor with the most monthly users for "google news"; its per-run fee is counted in, as ours would be if we charged one. Some Actors here ask less per row — this table compares against the one buyers actually use most.

How to scrape Google News

1. Type queries as you would on news.google.com: Bali, "Bank Indonesia" rate, site:reuters.com Indonesia, Tesla when:7d. Or pick topic sections.
2. Choose the edition — language and country — and, if needed, a date window.
3. Set Articles per query (Google serves up to 100 per feed; split by date windows to go deeper).
4. Leave Resolve the real article URL on unless you only need headlines.
5. Press Start. Download the table, or read it through the API.

⬇️ Input

The latest 10 headlines for two queries, with real URLs (the form's default — about 20 seconds)

{
  "queries": ["Bali", "Indonesia visa"],
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 10,
  "resolveUrls": true
}

Everything Reuters and Bloomberg wrote about a company last month, in one table

{
  "queries": ["site:reuters.com Nvidia", "site:bloomberg.com Nvidia"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-08-23",
  "dateTo": "2026-09-23",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100
}

German technology front page, headlines only, every hour

{
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "language": "de",
  "country": "DE",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "resolveUrls": false
}

⬆️ Output

{
  "type": "article",
  "query": "Bali visa",
  "title": "Bali cracks down on visa rules for influencers and content creators",
  "source": "New York Post",
  "sourceUrl": "https://nypost.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-06T07:00:00.000Z",
  "googleUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigAFBVV95cUxOZUtxM2VtTlhfZmtvaFJTQy1tZ29PUV9…?oc=5",
  "articleId": "CBMigAFBVV95cUxOZUtxM2VtTlhfZmtvaFJTQy1tZ29PUV9…",
  "articleUrl": "https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/world-news/bali-cracks-down-on-visa-rules-for-influencers-and-content-creators/",
  "articleDomain": "nypost.com",
  "snippet": null,
  "relatedArticles": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T07:55:02.000Z"
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the Dataset tab, or fetch the same rows with one API call.

Use cases for Google News data

Media monitoring and PR

Every mention of a brand, an executive or a campaign across every outlet Google indexes, hourly, with the link that opens the story.

Competitive and market intelligence

Who is writing about your competitors, how often, and where the coverage clusters (relatedArticles).

Finance and research

Headline streams per ticker or policy topic with publication timestamps — event data for backtests and dashboards.

AI and RAG

Fresh, deduplicated URLs by topic to fetch and index; articleDomain makes source filtering one line.

Integrations and Google News API

Run the Actor from your own code with the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients, from n8n, Make and Zapier through the Apify nodes, straight into Google Sheets, or on a schedule with a webhook when the run finishes:

https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lergassy~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN

Use it from Claude, Cursor or any MCP agent

Every Apify Actor is available as a tool through the Apify MCP server. Add the server and an agent can ask "what happened with Indonesia's visa rules this week" and get sourced headlines back.

🤖 For AI Agents & LLM Apps

• One row type, flat fields; relatedArticles is the only array.
• articleUrl is a fetchable publisher link; googleUrl is not (it is a redirect page).
• publishedAt is ISO; articleDomain is normalised without www..
• Error rows carry type: "error" with a plain-English error string and cost nothing.

Troubleshooting

• Fewer than 100 articles — Google News caps each feed at 100 and returns fewer for narrow queries; split the query by date windows (dateFrom/dateTo) or by outlet (site:).
• resolveError on a row — Google's resolver refused that link; the row still carries googleUrl and sourceUrl, and only the resolution is not billed.
• Results in the wrong language — set both language and country; Google News editions are pairs.

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google News?

The Actor reads public feeds and headlines — the same data any reader sees, without logging in. Headlines and links are public facts about published articles. How you use the data is subject to the laws of your country; article bodies belong to their publishers.

Does Google have a news API?

Google discontinued the News API; the feeds this Actor reads are what remains public. This Actor is the practical alternative, with the redirect resolved.

How far back can I go?

Google News search covers years; use dateFrom/dateTo to walk through history 100 headlines at a time.

Do I need proxies?

No. Apify datacenter proxies are included and enough.

What happens on an error?

You get an error row that explains the problem in plain words. Error rows are never billed.

Your feedback

If a field is missing or a query behaves oddly, open an issue on the Actor page with the query — it is usually fixed within a day. If the Actor saved you time, a review on the Store helps other buyers find it.

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