Google News Scraper

Extract news articles from Google News: search by keyword, read the top stories, follow a topic such as Business, or get local news for a city. Use it for media monitoring, brand and competitor tracking, PR reports, market research and news datasets.

• Four sources in one Actor. Keyword search, top stories, eight news topics and local news.
• Goes past the 100 article limit. Google shows about 100 articles per search. Give a date range and the Actor searches week by week and day by day, then removes duplicates.
• Real article links. Google News links point to Google. One switch adds the real publisher link.
• Any language and country. Works with every Google News edition.
• No login, no API key and no proxy needed. Press Start and get data.
• Low price. $1.50 per 1,000 results.

What data can you get?

Mode	What you get	Articles per run
Search by keyword	Articles that match your keywords, with optional date range, time range and publisher filter	About 100 per keyword, or thousands with a date range
Top stories	The front page of Google News for a country	30 to 40
Topic	One section: World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Science, Sports or Health	40 to 70
Location	Local news for a city	Up to 70 per city

Every article has these fields:

Field	Meaning
title	Headline, without the publisher name at the end
publisher, publisherUrl	Name and website of the news source
publishedAt	Publication time in UTC
googleNewsUrl	Link to the article on Google News
articleUrl	Real link on the publisher's website. Filled only when Get the real article links is on
description	Text of the feed entry. Google News gives the headline and the publisher here, not a summary of the article
relatedArticles	Other articles about the same story, each with title, publisher and Google News link. Mostly in top stories and topics
searchQuery, topic, location	What found the article
language, country, scrapedAt	Edition and time of scraping

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Choose a mode in What to scrape.
3. Fill in the matching input: keywords, a topic or a city.
4. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input examples

Search the newest articles about a brand:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQueries": ["Tesla", "\"Elon Musk\" interview"],
    "timeRange": "7d",
    "maxItems": 200
}

Collect all coverage of a topic in one month:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQueries": ["\"quantum computing\""],
    "dateFrom": "2026-08-01",
    "dateTo": "2026-08-31",
    "maxItems": 5000
}

Search only some publishers and get the real links:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQueries": ["bitcoin"],
    "sites": ["reuters.com", "cnbc.com"],
    "timeRange": "7d",
    "resolveUrls": true
}

Business news in France:

{
    "mode": "topic",
    "topic": "BUSINESS",
    "language": "fr",
    "country": "FR"
}

Local news:

{
    "mode": "location",
    "location": ["London", "New York"]
}

Output examples

A search result with the real article link:

{
    "articleId": "CBMipgFBVV95cUxQMFNkQmpvTmdlZER6dDF6NXlNZ2x2WnpicUlHeDBvRjNRUzlaZy01OUI5Sm91YV9DRUh0Qmk4TzNwTTQ1alBveEdGOHNHcy0wa1pqR0lsZVR2dUxoQ3R1V1FnZTJuZG9MS1d3OWs3eTgxb0ZmUl96dGNiWkhzMk1wN3oyV0xFYjVrdGtIQ1Vzb0l0SWdBWlZEalo3WmxNbVpxNjJoX1dR",
    "title": "AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’",
    "publisher": "theguardian.com",
    "publisherUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T15:00:00Z",
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxQMFNkQmpvTmdlZER6dDF6NXlNZ2x2WnpicUlHeDBvRjNRUzlaZy01OUI5Sm91YV9DRUh0Qmk4TzNwTTQ1alBveEdGOHNHcy0wa1pqR0lsZVR2dUxoQ3R1V1FnZTJuZG9MS1d3OWs3eTgxb0ZmUl96dGNiWkhzMk1wN3oyV0xFYjVrdGtIQ1Vzb0l0SWdBWlZEalo3WmxNbVpxNjJoX1dR?oc=5",
    "articleUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/ai-godfathers-warn-of-runaway-intelligence-explosion",
    "description": "AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’ theguardian.com",
    "relatedArticles": [],
    "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
    "topic": null,
    "location": null,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T11:27:39Z"
}

A top story with related articles (shortened to two):

{
    "articleId": "CBMiVkFVX3lxTE1Ja19tUVlfSUhsMWtlZVFwemlyeW90VVNCajM0MHNFcVkwY19xSVlILTNwUFVweWtFZllQb2ZuNGhZQV9xYXlwQlktaUpVb1FiNTVKWmlR",
    "title": "RAF Fairford latest: Incident 'clearly involves' foreign actor, says US secretary of state",
    "publisher": "BBC",
    "publisherUrl": "https://www.bbc.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T11:20:08Z",
    "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiVkFVX3lxTE1Ja19tUVlfSUhsMWtlZVFwemlyeW90VVNCajM0MHNFcVkwY19xSVlILTNwUFVweWtFZllQb2ZuNGhZQV9xYXlwQlktaUpVb1FiNTVKWmlR?oc=5",
    "articleUrl": "https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c65y7nl29k0et",
    "description": "RAF Fairford latest: Incident 'clearly involves' foreign actor, says US secretary of state BBC\nRubio Says Incident at UK Air Base RAF Fairford ‘Clearly Involved’ a Foreign Actor The New York Times\nThe Small English Town Rattled by Alleged Terror Plot Near U.S. Bomber Base WSJ",
    "relatedArticles": [
        {
            "title": "Rubio Says Incident at UK Air Base RAF Fairford ‘Clearly Involved’ a Foreign Actor",
            "publisher": "The New York Times",
            "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimwFBVV95cUxQTVpfc0otQi04dzZ0S1E4TXBKbjlaQ252aXE1Q2hQbUw1WURoU2ViTlhsSVFoY2hFRklCdXZLdzFvYk51VlFIYkZvY0RjNDZPRDNtdlg1T29KbmdFZE1ha25MRzVMTDRQWEZuYXJlLTM4N3RuYndFZnFUVVZXdkVYdF9JMTRuT1BRT214eVEzN0ZqSm5Uc0VPaXc2WQ?oc=5"
        },
        {
            "title": "The Small English Town Rattled by Alleged Terror Plot Near U.S. Bomber Base",
            "publisher": "WSJ",
            "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisAFBVV95cUxOZ3BJQmh1NEtYQ2tEaXNWdGdpMjR1ZVg1RFhLLW5sdnBjQ2xnWXQxdzU1dWw5MHZ1aHA1TmVyMXdlZXRKWWNONzUtcmFtVWNIdnZLal9aMklfZHlaTUV5SXkyZF94S011QW9YNmxpQkZkYksyc19IeW1GNFdQZmRBWXI3ZTdSTGtkLUY5V2E0RS0yTVpHc2U1M1BCSnB3SnUxRHBVZGYwSk5TWmNVc3dPZw?oc=5"
        }
    ],
    "searchQuery": null,
    "topic": "TOP_STORIES",
    "location": null,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-29T11:34:50Z"
}

How much does it cost?

You pay per saved article: $1.50 per 1,000 results. There is no start fee and no monthly rental. Turning on Get the real article links does not change the price.

Run	Results	Cost
One keyword search	100	$0.15
One month of "quantum computing" news	1,216	$1.82
Three months of "climate change" news	2,547	$3.82

Set a maximum charge per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Limits you should know

• One search returns about 100 articles. This is Google's limit. Without a date range you get the about 100 articles Google ranks highest for the keyword, not all of them.
• A date range gets more, but not everything. The smallest search window is one day, and one day also returns about 100 articles at most. In our tests a busy keyword ("artificial intelligence") hit this limit on 30 of 31 days and returned 1,937 articles for the month, about 60 per day. A narrower keyword ("quantum computing") returned 1,216 articles for the same month and hit the limit on 9 days. The run log lists the days that hit the limit. To get more from those days, use narrower keywords or the publisher filter.
• Old articles have a date but no exact time. For articles older than a few weeks Google gives only the day. The time then shows as 07:00 or 08:00 UTC, which is midnight in California.
• There is no article summary or full text. Google News feeds contain the headline, publisher, date and link. The description field repeats the headline and publisher.
• Real article links are slower. Decoding needs one extra request per article, about 60 to 70 seconds per 100 articles. In our largest test the Actor decoded 2,148 links in one run of 19 minutes with no failures and no rate limiting. Google can change this without notice. If Google starts to refuse these requests, the Actor keeps the articles and leaves articleUrl empty. Links in relatedArticles are not decoded.
• Top stories, topics and locations have no history. They show what is on Google News now, 30 to 70 articles. Run them on a schedule to build a history.
• Location works for cities, not for every place. London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Chicago and Toronto returned local news in our tests. Tokyo, Texas and Japan returned nothing. Pick the language and country that match the city. For other places use search mode with the place name as the keyword.
• Results depend on the edition. The same keyword returns different articles for different languages and countries.

Tips

• Use search operators. Put exact phrases in quotes, use OR between alternatives, -word to exclude a word and intitle:word to search headlines only.
• Duplicates are removed. An article found by two keywords or two date windows is saved once. The searchQuery field shows the keyword that found it first.
• Run it on a schedule. Search with the time range "Last 24 hours" every day to follow a brand or topic over time.
• Keep the language and country consistent. For example de with DE, pt with BR, ja with JP.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor collects only data that Google News shows publicly to every visitor: headlines, publisher names, dates and links. It does not copy the text of the articles. Results can contain names of people that appear in headlines. Make sure you have a legitimate reason to process them, as required by the GDPR and similar laws.

Do I need a Google account or API key? No.

Can I get the full article text? No. Turn on Get the real article links and pass the links to an article extractor.

Why do I get fewer articles than "Max results"? Google returns about 100 articles per search. Add a date range to get more.

Something is broken or missing? Open a ticket in the Issues tab. Issues are usually answered within a day.