Google News Monitor & AI Digest: Brand Alerts

Follow what the news says about your brand, your competitors or your market in any European country. Add a list of searches, schedule the Actor daily, and get only the new articles since the last run, each with AI sentiment and topic, plus one short digest per search you can forward by email or Slack.

No API key, no login: it reads the public Google News feed.

What can you use it for?

• Brand and reputation monitoring: see negative coverage the morning it appears.
• Competitor tracking: store openings, price changes, lawsuits, new products, leadership changes.
• PR and agencies: one monitor name per client, a ready digest every morning.
• Market and sector news: follow "energieprijzen", "e-commerce Belgium" or "Peppol" in Dutch, French or German.

How to use it

1. Enter your searches, e.g. Coolblue, Proximus, "Colruyt" -vacature.
2. Pick the country edition (and language for Belgium: nl or fr) and the period.
3. For a daily monitor choose Only new articles since the previous run and give it a Monitor name.
4. Add a schedule (Schedules → daily). Connect the run to Slack, email or a webhook via Integrations.

Output example

{
  "query": "Coolblue",
  "country": "BE",
  "title": "Coolblue opent nieuwe winkel in Gent",
  "source": "De Tijd",
  "sourceDomain": "tijd.be",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T08:00:00Z",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...",
  "relatedCoverage": 1,
  "sentiment": "neutral",
  "topic": "expansion",
  "aboutSearch": true
}

The digest (Output tab → Digest (Markdown)) per search: a 2–4 sentence summary, highlights, things worth watching and the top articles with links.

Pricing

Event	Price
New article (headline, outlet, date, link)	$0.002
New article with AI sentiment, topic and relevance check	$0.003 (instead of the above)
AI digest per search	$0.03

Example: 5 brands, ~6 new articles each per day, with AI and a daily digest = 30 × $0.003 + 5 × $0.03 = $0.24 per day.

Not charged: articles the same monitor already delivered, duplicates, excluded sources or words, side mentions (when Only headlines about the search is on), and failed feeds.

Good to know

• Google News returns up to 100 articles per search; narrow broad searches with operators ("exact name", -word, OR).
• googleNewsUrl opens the article via Google News; the outlet's own domain is in sourceDomain.
• relatedCoverage = how many other outlets Google groups under the same story (a rough reach signal).
• AI runs on Cloudflare Workers AI (Llama 3.3 70B); only headlines and outlet names are sent. Check samples before acting on sentiment.
• Free Apify plan: at most 50 articles per run.
• aboutSearch separates headlines about your search from side mentions (e.g. deal lists that link to a shop). The digest only summarises headlines about the search.
• Headlines and links only: no article bodies, no personal data.

FAQ

Which countries? Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the UK, the US, Poland, Sweden and Denmark.

Can I get alerts only for negative news? Filter the dataset on sentiment = negative in your integration, or read the digest's Worth watching section.

How often should I run it? Daily for brands, hourly (Last hour + Only new) for crisis monitoring.

Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the run ID.