Google News Keyword Monitor 📰

Track any keyword across Google News, automatically. This actor watches Google News for the terms you care about and returns new articles that mention them — deduplicated across runs, so you only ever see fresh coverage, never the same story twice.

Set it on a schedule and it becomes a hands-off news alert feed: your brand, a competitor, a person, a product, or any topic — delivered to a dataset you can export or pipe into Slack, webhooks, Zapier, and Make.

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💡 What you can use it for

• Brand & PR monitoring — catch every news story mentioning your company the moment it publishes.
• Competitor intelligence — track rivals' launches, funding, and press coverage.
• Reputation management — get ahead of negative coverage fast.
• Market & topic research — follow an industry, technology, or trend across thousands of outlets.
• Executive & people tracking — monitor coverage of a founder, exec, or public figure.

✨ Features

• 📰 Searches all of Google News via its public RSS feed — thousands of sources, always current.
• 🧠 Deduplicated — remembers what it has already returned, so scheduled runs surface only new articles.
• ⏱️ Schedule-ready — run it hourly (or more often) for a continuous news alert stream.
• 🌍 Language & country — target any Google News locale (en-US, en-GB, es-ES, …).
• 📤 Export anywhere — JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to webhooks / Slack / Zapier / Make.

🧾 Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The keyword or phrase to watch for.
language	string	Google News language code (e.g. en-US).
country	string	Google News country code (e.g. US).
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	Suppress articles already returned in earlier runs.
maxItems	integer	Cap on articles per run.

{
  "query": "your brand name",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true,
  "maxItems": 50
}

📦 Output

Each article is one dataset item: title, source, url, publishedAt, and foundAt.

⏰ Recommended setup

1. Set query to your keyword and turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun.
2. Create a Schedule (e.g. every hour).
3. Connect an integration (Slack, webhook, email, Zapier) to be alerted on new coverage.

❓ FAQ

Will I get duplicate articles? No — with onlyNewSinceLastRun on, each run returns only articles it hasn't returned before.

Can I monitor non-US news? Yes — set language and country to your locale.

What does it cost? Pay-per-event: a small charge per run plus per new article returned.

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Keywords: Google News scraper, news monitoring, brand monitoring, media monitoring, press monitoring, competitor tracking, keyword alerts, news API, PR monitoring, mention tracking.