Google News Scraper — structured news articles for any keyword

Turn Google News into structured data. Search any keyword or query and get back a clean feed of articles — headline, source, publish date, snippet, and link — across 16 languages and 20 country editions, with optional time-window filters.

Fast and lightweight: reads Google News feeds directly, no browser required. A typical query returns in seconds and costs a fraction of a cent.

What you get

One dataset item per article:

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "OpenAI announces new model for enterprise",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "guid": "CBMiK2h0dHBz...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-09T08:14:00.000Z",
  "publishedRaw": "Wed, 09 Jul 2026 08:14:00 GMT",
  "snippet": "The company said the model targets regulated industries…",
  "status": "SUCCEEDED"
}

How to scrape Google News

1. Enter one or more queries — plain keywords or full Google search syntax ("apple vision pro", climate site:reuters.com, intitle:layoffs).
2. Optionally set a time window (last hour to last 7 days), language, and country edition.
3. Click Start. Articles land in the dataset, ready to export as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or to pull via API.

No login, no API key, no browser.

Input

Field	Description
queries	One news search per query. Supports operators like "apple vision pro", climate site:reuters.com, intitle:layoffs
maxItemsPerQuery	Cap per query (default 100 — Google returns up to ~100 per feed)
timeWindow	Any time / last hour / 6h / 12h / 24h / 3 days / 7 days
language	Article language (16 options)
country	Google News edition / region (20 options)
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy settings (defaults are fine for most runs)

Pricing

You pay a small fee per article delivered — $2.00 per 1,000 articles plus a few cents of platform usage. Queries that return nothing, or that fail, are never charged. No subscriptions, no minimums.

Use cases

• Brand & reputation monitoring — track every mention of your company or product as it's published.
• PR & media teams — measure coverage, spot breaking stories, build press clip reports.
• Market & competitor research — follow an industry, a rival, or a ticker across hundreds of outlets.
• Content & SEO research — find trending angles and fresh sources for any topic before you write.
• AI agents & LLM apps — give your agent a live news feed as a tool; the structured output drops straight into a prompt.
• Pipelines — schedule runs and pull results via the Apify API into dashboards, Slack alerts, or Google Sheets.

Run it from your own code

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("originalvi/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["nvidia earnings", "\"artificial intelligence\" regulation"],
    "timeWindow": "24h",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["publishedAt"], item["source"], "—", item["title"])

Works the same with the JavaScript apify-client, raw HTTP API, or no-code tools (Make, Zapier, n8n).

FAQ

How is this different from the Google News website? Same articles, but as structured data you can filter, store, and automate — not a UI you have to read. One scheduled run replaces manually checking dozens of searches.

How fresh are the results? Google News feeds update within minutes of publication. Pair the last hour time window with an hourly schedule for a near-real-time monitoring feed.

Can I get news in German / Spanish / Japanese…? Yes — 16 languages and 20 country editions. Set language and country per run; you can also run several country editions of the same query in one go.

Why does the link point to news.google.com? Google News serves redirect URLs. Opening one in a browser lands on the publisher's article. The source and sourceUrl fields tell you the publisher directly.

Are there search operators? Everything Google News supports: exact phrases in quotes, site:, intitle:, exclusion with -word, OR, and more.

Is scraping Google News legal? The Actor reads publicly available news feeds — headlines, snippets, and links, no full article text and no personal data. How you use the data is your responsibility.

Tips

• Use quotes for exact phrases ("vision pro") and operators (site:, intitle:, -word) to sharpen results.
• Pair timeWindow with a scheduled run (e.g. every hour, last-hour window) to build a real-time news alert feed.
• Track a competitor with "CompanyName" -site:companyname.com to catch third-party coverage only.

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