# Google News API - 100% Free, No API Key (`om_kh/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes Google News for any keyword or topic: headline, article URL, publisher, snippet, publish date. Reads Google's own official RSS feed. Completely free, no charge ever.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/om\_kh/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [omar khandji](https://apify.com/om_kh) (community)
- **Categories:** News, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 7 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Google News Monitor — Brand & Topic Alerts (Vigia)

> Track Google News for your brand, competitors or topics and get only NEW articles since last check. Charged only on new articles, never per run. Ideal for PR, brand-monitoring and market-intel agents.

> **100% first-party and 100% free.** This monitor reads the **official Google News RSS feed** directly — no third-party scraper in the middle. There is no upstream actor that can break, rate-limit, or go dark, and there is no source-check charge at all: this Actor is FREE, you pay only Apify's own platform usage.

### 100% free

**This Actor is free.** No charge per article, no charge per run from us — you
pay only Apify's own platform usage, exactly as for an Actor you wrote yourself.

It is free because it costs us nothing: it reads Google News' own public RSS
feed. No API key, no scraping, nothing that can be blocked.

### What it does

Track brand or topic coverage and catch a news-velocity spike. You get **only what changed since your last check** — never a full re-dump to diff yourself.

### Why Vigia — 5 advantages a raw scraper can't match

1. **You never pay us for a quiet run.** This Actor is free — there is no alert price and no source-check fee. Raw scrapers bill every row of a full re-scan every run; here there's nothing to bill at all.
2. **Never billed on a failed source.** Since the Actor is free, an outage costs you nothing either way.
3. **Append-only delta + spike signal.** The first monitored run stores a free baseline; later runs deliver only what's new, plus a velocity-spike alert when volume suddenly surges (trend / review-bomb / hiring-surge).
4. **Hard cost cap you control.** Set `maxTotalChargeUsd` and the run can never bill above it — predictable spend, no surprise invoice.
5. **Agent-ready output.** Clean, normalized rows and a `RUN_SUMMARY.json` with ready-to-use signals — chainable from any MCP / A2A agent in one step.

### Example input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "your brand",
    "industry topic"
  ],
  "monitorEnabled": true,
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1.0
}
```

Set `monitorEnabled: true` so the first run stores a free baseline and later runs return only new results. Pin a `monitorId` to keep separate targets from sharing state.

### Output

Each row is a normalized change record: `record_id`, `query_id`, `title`, `url`, `author`, `published_at`, `score`, `text`. A `RUN_SUMMARY.json` accompanies every run with the aggregated signal (counts, velocity spikes, trend).

### How you're charged

This Actor is **FREE**: no charge per article, no source-check fee, no charge per run from us — you pay only Apify's own platform usage, exactly as for an Actor you wrote yourself. It costs us nothing to run because it reads Google News' own public RSS feed directly (no upstream actor, no licensed scraper, no API key), so there is nothing to pass a cost through for.

***

*Part of the Vigia monitoring suite — change-only billing, outage-safe, agent-ready.*

### Related tools

- Looking for developer/tech-community coverage instead of general news? → [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/om_kh/vigia-hackernews-monitor)

### All input fields

Every field the Start form accepts, so nothing in the schema is undocumented. Most runs only need the fields already covered above — these are the rest, including advanced/bring-your-own-data options.

- **`currentItems`** (Bring your own items (optional)) — Skip the chained fetch and pass records directly (no upstream call, no fetch fee).

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Brand names, competitors, or topics to track across Google News. The first run on a query is a free baseline; later runs with the same Monitor ID are billed only for genuinely new articles.

## `currentItems` (type: `array`):

Skip the chained fetch and pass records directly (no upstream call, no fetch fee).

## `maxTotalChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Hard maximum amount that this run may charge.

## `sources` (type: `array`):

Declare every upstream source before this run. Each item needs name, authorization, and estimated\_cost\_usd.

## `monitorEnabled` (type: `boolean`):

The first monitored run stores a free baseline. Later runs deliver and charge only new results.

## `monitorId` (type: `string`):

Pins the persistent baseline to a name of your choice, so separate targets never share state. Leave empty to derive it automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "your brand",
    "industry topic"
  ],
  "currentItems": [],
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1,
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Chained upstream actor",
      "authorization": "public_structured_data",
      "estimated_cost_usd": 0
    }
  ],
  "monitorEnabled": false,
  "monitorId": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `report` (type: `string`):

A visual summary of delivery, charges, changes, and source issues.

## `results` (type: `string`):

Business-ready results in a sortable table. No JSON knowledge required.

## `csv` (type: `string`):

Results ready for spreadsheets, CRMs, and analytics tools.

## `excel` (type: `string`):

Results as an Excel workbook for non-technical teams.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Machine-readable delivery, billing, and source diagnostics.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "your brand",
        "industry topic"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("om_kh/google-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": [
        "your brand",
        "industry topic",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("om_kh/google-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "your brand",
    "industry topic"
  ]
}' |
apify call om_kh/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,om_kh/google-news-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rgWQ2fNhyhhekWpCa/builds/1CCyBohEry90C0hH3/openapi.json