Google News Scraper — Track Articles, Brands & Topics in Real Time 📰

Turn any keyword, brand, topic, or location into a clean, structured feed of news articles from Google News — no API key, no login, and no proxy required. This Google News scraper reads the public Google News feeds and returns each story's headline, publisher, real article URL, snippet, thumbnail, and publish date — including the canonical publisher link instead of the useless news.google.com redirect. It covers 50+ countries and 30+ languages and can stitch multiple time windows together to deliver 100+ articles per query in a single run.

🏆 Why this Google News Scraper?

Real publisher URLs (not Google redirects) · No API key or proxy needed · 50+ countries · 30+ languages · Search, topic, location & top-headlines modes · 100+ articles per query via time-window stitching · Source include/exclude & date filters · Pay only for results you keep

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✨ What this Actor does

• 🔍 Search any keyword or phrase — supports Google search operators: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:domain.com, intitle:word.
• 🗂️ Browse by topic — pull curated top stories from WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, or HEALTH.
• 📍 Location-based news — get coverage for a specific city, region, or country (e.g. New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo).
• 📰 Top headlines — grab the main Google News front-page feed for any language/country, ideal for daily digests.
• 🔗 Canonical publisher URLs — resolves each Google redirect once and returns the clean originalUrl you can actually use for content extraction, CRM, or SEO.
• 🌍 50+ countries & 30+ languages — set language and country to localize which stories you receive.
• 📈 100+ articles per query — set maxArticles above 100 and the actor stitches multiple time-windowed feeds (1h, 1d, 7d, 30d) and de-duplicates automatically.
• 🎯 Source & date filters — whitelist or blacklist publisher domains and restrict results to a date range or recent time window.
• 🖼️ Thumbnails — includes each article's preview image when available, at no extra cost.
• 📤 Export anywhere — download as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, XML, or JSONL, or stream results live via the Apify API and webhooks.

🚀 Quick start (3 steps)

1. Enter what to monitor — add one or more Search keywords / topics, or pick a Topic category, a Location, or toggle Top headlines.
2. Set the region — choose a Language and Country, then set Max articles (over 100 unlocks time-window stitching).
3. Click Start — every article is saved as one dataset row, ready to download or pipe into your stack.

No API key, no cookies, no proxy setup. It just runs.

📥 Input

The only thing you need is one input mode: a list of queries, or a topic, or a geoLocation, or topHeadlines. Everything else is optional and tunes region, volume, and filtering.

Example — monitor a brand across the news

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

Example — top stories in a topic category

{
  "topic": "TECHNOLOGY",
  "language": "en-GB",
  "country": "GB",
  "maxArticles": 50,
  "extractThumbnails": true
}

Example — multi-query, filtered by source and date

{
  "queries": ["electric vehicles", "\"battery technology\" -tesla", "site:reuters.com hydrogen"],
  "language": "de",
  "country": "DE",
  "maxArticles": 200,
  "fromDate": "2026-06-01",
  "includeSources": ["reuters.com", "bloomberg.com", "ft.com"]
}

Full parameters

Field	Type	Description
queries	array	Search queries — each becomes a separate Google News feed. Supports "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:domain.com, intitle:word.
topic	string (enum)	Browse top stories by category instead of searching: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH.
geoLocation	string	Location-based news for a city/region/country (English name, e.g. London).
topHeadlines	boolean	Fetch the main Google News top-headlines feed and ignore queries/topic/geo. Great for daily digests.
language	string	Interface language, e.g. en-US, en-GB, fr, de, es, ja, zh-CN, ar, tr, ru. Default en-US.
country	string	ISO 2-letter region, e.g. US, GB, FR, DE, JP, BR, IN, TR. Default US.
maxArticles	integer	Max articles per feed (0–500). Above 100, the actor stitches multiple time windows and de-duplicates.
timeWindow	string (enum)	Restrict to a recent window: 1h, 12h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y. Ignored when maxArticles > 100.
fromDate	string	Drop articles published before this date (YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO).
toDate	string	Drop articles published after this date (YYYY-MM-DD or full ISO).
includeSources	array	Whitelist of publisher domains — only these sources are returned (e.g. ["reuters.com"]).
excludeSources	array	Blacklist of publisher domains — these sources are filtered out.
resolveUrls	boolean	Follow the Google redirect once per article and return the canonical publisher URL. Default true.
extractThumbnails	boolean	Include the article thumbnail image URL when available. Default true.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy. Off by default — Google News RSS rarely rate-limits.

💡 Tip: Use one query per brand/competitor/theme and set maxArticles to 200 to pull a deep backlog. Combine includeSources with a tier-1 publisher list to build a clean, high-signal media feed.

📤 Output

Each article is one clean dataset row. Here is a trimmed, realistic sample (fields are exactly what the actor returns):

{
  "title": "OpenAI unveils new reasoning model for enterprise customers",
  "description": "The company said the model improves multi-step task accuracy while cutting latency for large-scale deployments.",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "sourceDomain": "reuters.com",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiT2h0dHBzOi8v...",
  "originalUrl": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-reasoning-model-enterprise-2026-07-05/",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://news.google.com/api/attachments/CC8i...=-w200-h200-p",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-05T14:22:00.000Z",
  "publishedAtRaw": "Sat, 05 Jul 2026 14:22:00 GMT",
  "guid": "CBMiT2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnJldXRlcnMuY29t",
  "query": "openai",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "timeWindow": "",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-06T09:00:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

• 📡 News & brand monitoring — track every article mentioning your company, product, or executives across 50+ countries and catch new coverage as it breaks.
• 🏢 Competitive & topic intelligence — follow competitors, an industry, or a theme and feed fresh headlines into a daily digest or dashboard.
• 📣 PR & media analysis — measure share of voice and coverage volume using clean source domains and accurate publish dates.
• ✍️ Content research & curation — source trending stories by topic (BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS, …) for a newsletter, feed, or blog.
• 🧠 NLP & data pipelines — collect article metadata and canonical URLs for downstream content extraction, sentiment analysis, or dataset building.
• 🚨 Alerting & sentiment feeds — schedule the actor and push new articles to Slack, email, or a webhook the moment they appear.

👥 Who uses it

PR & comms teams · brand managers · media monitoring & social listening tools · journalists & newsrooms · market and competitive-intelligence analysts · academic and market researchers · hedge funds & quant desks tracking event-driven signals · SEO & content marketers · data engineers building news datasets · agencies reporting on client coverage.

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-result model — you're billed for the article rows you receive, with no monthly subscription and no per-request fees. Because it runs on plain HTTP with no proxy, runs are fast and cheap.

👉 See the Pricing tab on this page for the current rate.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape Google News? This Actor collects publicly available news metadata (headlines, publisher names, links, snippets, dates) from Google News feeds — the same information any visitor can see without logging in. It does not access private data or bypass authentication. As always, use the data responsibly and in line with Google's terms and applicable law in your jurisdiction. For legal advice, consult a professional.

Does Google News have a public API? Not really. Google's official Google News API was deprecated years ago, and there is no current public API for retrieving Google News article results. This Actor is a practical Google News API alternative: it reads the public feeds and returns structured, queryable article data you can integrate anywhere.

Can I use this without an API key or login? Yes. There's no API key, no login, and no proxy to configure. Just enter a keyword or topic and run it — the actor reads Google News feeds over plain HTTP, which rarely rate-limits.

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, CRM, or SEO use.

How much data can I get per query? A single Google News feed caps at about 100 results. Set Max articles above 100 (up to 500) and the actor stitches multiple time-windowed feeds (1h, 1d, 7d, 30d) and de-duplicates them to deliver more than the single-feed cap.

Which languages and countries are supported? 30+ languages (e.g. English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Russian) and 50+ countries via ISO 2-letter codes. Set language and country to localize which stories you receive.

Can I filter by date or recency? Yes. Use timeWindow for a recent window (1h → 1y), or fromDate / toDate for a precise ISO date range. Note that timeWindow is ignored when maxArticles > 100 (the actor manages windows itself in that mode).

Are duplicate articles removed? Yes. When stitching multiple time windows to exceed 100 results, the actor de-duplicates so you don't get the same story twice. You can also whitelist or blacklist publisher domains with includeSources / excludeSources.

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 from the Storage tab — or pull the same data live via the Apify API and webhooks (Sheets, Slack, a CRM, or a database).

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⏰ Scheduling & integration

News monitoring is only useful if it's continuous. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor every hour or every morning and keep a rolling feed of fresh coverage:

• 🔔 Automated alerting — trigger a webhook whenever a run finishes and push new articles straight to Slack, Discord, email, or Microsoft Teams.
• 🔗 Live integrations — connect the dataset to Google Sheets, Airtable, a CRM, or your database via the Apify API and webhooks.
• 🧩 Actor-to-actor pipelines — feed the canonical originalUrl list into a content extractor, summarizer, or sentiment model for an end-to-end media-intelligence workflow.
• 📅 Daily digests — pair topHeadlines or a topic with a morning schedule to generate a ready-to-send news brief.

⭐ Support & feedback

Questions, edge cases, or a field you'd like added? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — feedback directly shapes the roadmap, and quick, useful requests often ship fast.

⚖️ Legal

This Actor collects publicly available information from Google News feeds. You are responsible for using the exported data in compliance with Google's terms of service, applicable data-protection and copyright laws, and any other relevant regulations in your jurisdiction. This tool is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

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📝 Changelog

2026-07-06

• ✨ README overhaul: richer output sample, ready-to-run example scenarios, cross-promo links, clearer quick-start and expanded FAQ.

2026-07-01

• Maintenance pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data and confirmed successful runs within the 5-minute quality window on the default input.
• Sharpened Store metadata (SEO title & description) and expanded the FAQ with high-intent, long-tail questions for easier discovery in Google and Apify Store search.
• Added ready-to-run example tasks that cover common real-world use cases.

2026-06-15

• Reliability pass: re-verified end-to-end on live data with real-world inputs. Routine maintenance build.

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.