Google News Scraper — Real Article URLs

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic, language and country — and get back the real publisher URL for every article, not the opaque news.google.com redirect link that most scrapers return.

Fast, HTTP-only (no browser), typically under 10 seconds for a full query.

Why this scraper?

Most Google News scrapers return links like https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi... — useless if you want to fetch the article, feed an LLM pipeline, monitor brand mentions, or archive sources. This Actor decodes every link into the final publisher URL (e.g. https://www.reuters.com/technology/...):

	This Actor	Typical alternatives
Real article URLs	✅ decoded	❌ Google redirect links
Browser needed	❌ no (fast & cheap)	often Playwright/Chrome
Topic sections	✅ 9 sections	varies
Any language/country edition	✅	varies
Honest empty results	✅ 0 items = 0 charge	varies

Use cases

• News monitoring / brand tracking — track any keyword, company or person across every Google News edition.
• LLM & RAG pipelines — feed real article URLs to your ingestion pipeline (the decoded URL can be fetched directly).
• AI agents (MCP) — call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client to give your agent fresh news with citable sources.
• Market & competitor research — track product launches, funding rounds, regulation news.
• Sentiment analysis — collect headlines + snippets per topic, language and country.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
queries	array	["artificial intelligence"]	One search per item. Supports "exact phrase", site:reuters.com, intitle:x, OR.
topic	enum	—	Optional topic section: TOP, WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SCIENCE, SPORTS, HEALTH.
language	string	en	e.g. en, pt-BR, es, de, fr, ja.
country	string	US	e.g. US, BR, GB, DE, IN.
dateRange	enum	any	1h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y (search queries only).
maxItemsPerQuery	int	100	Google News RSS caps at ~100 items per feed.
decodeArticleUrls	bool	true	Turn off for maximum speed (you'll get only Google redirect URLs).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy	Datacenter proxy is enough.

Output example

{
    "article_uid": "CBMiwgFBVV95cUxP...",
    "title": "UN chief welcomes first global AI framework",
    "article_url": "https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/07/1165432",
    "google_rss_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxP...",
    "decoded": true,
    "source_name": "UN News",
    "source_url": "https://news.un.org",
    "published_at": "2026-07-02T17:17:49.000Z",
    "snippet": "The UN Secretary-General welcomed the adoption of...",
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "feed_type": "search",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US"
}

Every item always includes google_rss_url; article_url is filled whenever decoding succeeds (typically >95%). Items are deduplicated across queries within a run.

Pricing

Pay per result — you are charged only for news items actually delivered (US$ 2.00 per 1,000 items). A run that finds nothing costs nothing. Decoding real URLs is included in the price.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Google News public RSS feeds — the same data you see on news.google.com, no login, no personal data.

How fresh is it? RSS reflects Google News in near real time; use dateRange: "1h" for breaking-news monitoring.

Can I get full article text? Not from this Actor (by design — it stays fast and cheap). Pipe article_url into any article-extraction Actor or your own fetcher.

How many results per query? Google News RSS returns up to ~100 items per feed. Use multiple, more specific queries (e.g. per-day dateRange windows) to widen coverage.

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🇧🇷 Nota em português

Busca notícias no Google News por palavra-chave, tópico, idioma e país — devolvendo a URL real do artigo (não o redirect do Google). Funciona com edições brasileiras: language: "pt-BR", country: "BR".