Google News Scraper

Scrape news articles from Google News by keyword, brand, topic or location, with no proxy and no API key. This Google News scraper turns any search query or topic into a clean feed of articles and returns the real publisher URL for each one — not the news.google.com redirect.

Built for news monitoring, media tracking and content research, it covers 50+ countries and 30+ languages and can stitch multiple time windows together to pull 100+ articles per query.

What you get

One dataset row per article, with these fields:

Field	Description
title	Article headline
description	Article snippet / summary from the feed
source	Publisher name (e.g. Reuters, BBC)
sourceDomain	Publisher domain
sourceUrl	Publisher home URL
link	Original Google News link
originalUrl	Resolved canonical publisher article URL (not the Google redirect)
thumbnailUrl	Article thumbnail image, when available
publishedAt	Normalized publish timestamp
publishedAtRaw	Raw publish date from the feed
guid	Unique article identifier
query / topic / geoLocation	What produced this result
language, country, timeWindow, scrapedAt	Run context

Export every run to CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML or JSONL from the Apify dataset, or pull it live via the API and webhooks.

Use cases

• News and brand monitoring — track every article mentioning your company, product or executives across 50+ countries and get alerts on new coverage.
• Competitor and topic tracking — follow a competitor, industry or theme and feed fresh headlines into a daily digest.
• PR and media analysis — measure share of voice and coverage volume with clean source domains and publish dates.
• Content research and curation — source trending stories by topic (BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS, etc.) for a newsletter or feed.
• Data pipelines and NLP — collect article metadata and canonical URLs for downstream content extraction, sentiment analysis or dataset building.

How to use

1. Enter one or more Search keywords / topics (Google search operators like "exact phrase", OR, -exclude and site: are supported), or pick a Topic category, a Location, or Top headlines.
2. Set Language and Country for the region you want news from.
3. Set Max articles — values above 100 automatically stitch multiple time windows to return more.
4. Optionally add From date / To date, an Include only these sources whitelist, or an Exclude these sources blacklist.
5. Click Start. Each article is saved as one row, ready to download or pipe downstream.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "anthropic claude"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "maxArticles": 100,
  "resolveUrls": true
}

FAQ

Do I get the real article URL or the Google redirect?

You get the real one. With Resolve final article URLs enabled (the default), the scraper follows each news.google.com redirect once and returns the canonical publisher URL in originalUrl, ready for content extraction or CRM use.

Do I need a proxy or API key?

No. The scraper reads Google News RSS feeds over plain HTTP, which rarely rate-limits, so no API key and no proxy are needed. A proxy toggle is available for very high-volume runs but is off by default.

How many articles can I get per query?

A single Google News feed caps at about 100 results. Set Max articles above 100 and the scraper stitches multiple time-windowed feeds (when:1h, 1d, 7d, 30d) and de-duplicates to deliver more.

Which export formats are supported?

CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML and JSONL from the Apify dataset, plus the Apify API and webhooks for live integrations with Sheets, Slack, a CRM or a database.

Is this a Google News API alternative?

Yes. Google News has no official public articles API, so this actor acts as a Google News API alternative by reading the public RSS feeds and returning structured article data you can query and integrate.

How do I scrape Google News without an API key?

Just enter a keyword or topic and run it. The scraper reads Google News RSS feeds over plain HTTP, so you can scrape Google News without an API key, login or proxy.

How do I export Google News articles to CSV or JSON?

Run the actor, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, XML or JSONL — or pull the same Google News dataset live via the Apify API.

Changelog

2026-06-07

• Docs: added coverage for Google News API alternative, scraping without an API key, and exporting articles to CSV/JSON.

2026-06-05

• SEO and documentation refresh; title and metadata aligned to "Google News scraper" with accurate output fields.
• Verified live and rebuilt.