📰 Google News Scraper

Automate your news monitoring with this Google News scraper that collects articles by keyword search, topic browsing, or custom topic feeds. Perfect for researchers, marketers, analysts, and PR professionals who need structured news data for competitor tracking, trend analysis, market research, or news monitoring without manual work. Supports 50+ languages and regions, flexible date filtering, and enriched article details like author, category, keywords, and article images.

The Google News Scraper collects news articles from Google News, up to 1,000,000 per run, with automatic day-by-day pagination for large datasets and enriched article details including author, category, and keywords.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📝 Article Title - The headline of the news article for quick identification and cataloging
• 🖼️ Article Image - Preview image from the article or RSS feed for visual content presentation
• 📊 Publication Details - Published date, modification date, and article links for complete temporal context
• 👤 Author and Source - Author name, news source, and source URL for credibility tracking and attribution
• 🎯 Categories and Keywords - Article categories and extracted keywords for topic classification and research filtering
• 🔗 Multiple Links - Article URL, RSS link, and source URL for complete reference documentation and verification

🔧 Input

• Search Query - Keyword or phrase to search Google News. Supports advanced operators like "site:bbc.com", "intitle:AI", and exact match with quotes. Leave blank if using topics instead
• Max Items - Maximum number of articles to collect. Free users limited to 100, paid users can request up to 1,000,000. When requesting more than 100 articles with search queries, results are fetched day by day automatically
• Language and Region - Choose from 50+ language and region combinations to target specific markets like English (US), Spanish (Mexico), or French (Canada)
• Date From - Start date for filtering articles in YYYY-MM-DD format. Only applies when using search queries
• Date To - End date for filtering articles in YYYY-MM-DD format. Only applies when using search queries
• Open-Ended Date Range - Relative date range for recent articles (e.g., "1h" for last hour, "7d" for last 7 days, "1y" for last year). Cannot be used together with Date From and Date To
• Standard Topics - Select one or more Google News topic sections like WORLD, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, or SPORTS. Can be combined with search queries
• Hashed Topic IDs - Custom Google News topic IDs for specialized topics. Find these in Google News URLs when browsing specific topics
• Fetch Article Details - Enable to decode article URLs and collect additional data like preview image, description, author, category, and modification date. Slower but provides richer data
• Proxy Configuration - Optional proxy settings for when fetchArticleDetails is enabled and target sites are geo-restricted

Example configuration:

{
"searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
"maxItems": 50,
"language": "en:US",
"dateFrom": "2024-01-01",
"dateTo": "2024-12-31",
"fetchArticleDetails": true
}

📊 Output

Each article includes up to 15 data fields. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

🖼️ Article Image	📝 Article Title	📊 Published Date
👤 Author Name	📄 Source Name	🔗 Source URL
📋 Description	🎯 Category	🏷️ Keywords
🔗 Article URL	🔗 RSS Link	🆔 GUID
📅 Modified Date	⏱️ Scraped At	⚠️ Error Messages

💎 Why Choose the Google News Scraper?

Feature	Our Actor	Similar Tools
Multi-language support (50+ languages)	✔️	❌
Custom topic IDs support	✔️	❌
Automatic day-by-day pagination for large datasets	✔️	❌
Article details enrichment (author, category, keywords)	✔️	Partial
Advanced search operators (site:, intitle:, exact match)	✔️	❌
Flexible date range filtering with open-ended ranges	✔️	Partial
Proxy support for geo-restricted sites	✔️	Partial
Up to 1,000,000 articles per run for paid users	✔️	❌
Real article URLs (decodes Google redirect links)	✔️	❌
Automatic retry logic on rate limits	✔️	❌
Fast RSS-based collection without browsers	✔️	❌
Scheduled daily or weekly collection support	✔️	❌

📋 How to Use

No technical skills required. Follow these simple steps:

1. Sign Up: Create a free account with $5 credit
2. Find the Tool: Search for "Google News Scraper" in the Apify Store and configure your input
3. Run It: Click "Start" and watch your results appear

That's it. No coding, no setup, no complicated configuration. Now you can export your data in CSV, Excel, or JSON format.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📊 Market Researchers - Monitor competitor announcements across global news sources to identify market shifts and product launches before your competitors do
• 💼 PR Professionals - Track brand mentions and media coverage across multiple languages and regions to measure PR campaign effectiveness and respond to crises quickly
• 📣 Marketing Analysts - Collect industry trend articles and keyword-specific news to identify emerging opportunities and craft data-driven content strategies
• 🔬 Competitive Intelligence Teams - Analyze competitor news patterns over time to detect strategic pivots, partnerships, and growth signals for business planning
• 📈 Financial Analysts - Monitor company announcements and industry news by date range to build comprehensive datasets for fundamental analysis and market insights

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ FAQ

🔍 How does it work? The scraper uses Google News RSS feeds and advanced filtering to collect articles by search query, topic category, or custom topic ID. When you enable article details, it decodes Google's redirect URLs and fetches additional metadata from the original article pages.

📊 How accurate is the data? Article titles, publication dates, and sources come directly from Google News RSS feeds. When article details are enabled, additional fields like author, category, and keywords are extracted from the original article pages using meta tags and JSON-LD structured data.

📅 Can I schedule this to run automatically? Yes, you can set up recurring tasks on Apify to collect articles daily, weekly, or monthly. Use Make or Zapier integrations to automate the workflow.

⚖️ Is scraping Google News allowed? The scraper uses Google News' public RSS feeds, which are designed for data access. However, it's your responsibility to comply with Google's Terms of Service and local laws. The data collected is public information.

🛡️ Will Google block me? Google News is designed to serve RSS feeds to bots, so standard requests work. However, when fetchArticleDetails is enabled and you're accessing individual article pages, enabling a residential proxy is recommended to avoid blocking by target websites.

⚡ How long does a run take? Without article details, a run typically takes 5-30 seconds depending on the number of articles. With article details enabled, add 2-5 seconds per article for page fetching. A run of 50 articles with details takes roughly 2-3 minutes.

⚠️ Are there any limits? Free users can collect up to 100 results per run. Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.

🔗 Integrate Google News Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5000+ apps
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Create a free account with $5 credit and collect your first 100 articles for free. No coding, no setup.

🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify support page for documentation and tutorials
• Contact us to request a new scraper, propose a custom project, or report an issue at Tally contact form

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google News or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.