Google News Scraper: Articles with Real Publisher URLs

Collect news articles from Google News for any search query, topic section or local news location, in any country edition and language Google News offers. For every article you get the headline, the publisher's name and website, the publication date, the Google News link and the real publisher article URL (decoded from Google's redirect link), plus related coverage and, optionally, the full article text. $1.50 per 1,000 articles.

What can this Google News scraper do?

• Search with Google News operators: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:word, when:7d, after:2026-01-01, before:2026-02-01.
• Read topic sections: World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health.
• Get local news for a city, region or country, and top stories for an edition.
• Paste Google News URLs copied from your browser (topic, search or publication pages).
• Decode real article URLs so you can open or process the publisher's page directly.
• Go past Google's ~100-results limit by searching smaller date windows automatically.
• Extract full text (optional) with author, image and description.
• De-duplicate across queries.

What data do you get?

Field	Description
title, source, sourceUrl, sourceDomain	Headline and publisher
publishedAt	ISO 8601, UTC
articleUrl, articleDomain	The publisher's own article URL
googleNewsUrl, articleId	Google News link and ID
snippet, relatedCoverage	Extra text when Google supplies it, and other outlets covering the story
query, feedType, feedLabel, rank, country, language, scrapedAt	Where the article came from
fullText, wordCount, author, image, description, fullTextStatus	With full text on

Who uses it?

• Communications and PR teams tracking mentions of a company, product or executive.
• Investors and analysts following news on tickers, sectors or competitors.
• Researchers and journalists building datasets of coverage over a date range.
• Developers feeding headlines and article text into dashboards, alerts, newsletters or AI pipelines.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Enter Queries, Topics or Locations.
3. Choose the edition (Country and Language) and a Time range or exact dates.
4. Run it and export to Excel, CSV or JSON.
5. Schedule it daily with time range 1d to receive new articles in Slack or a spreadsheet.

Input example

{
  "queries": [
    "\"electric vehicles\" when:7d",
    "site:reuters.com tariffs"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 50,
  "decodeUrls": true
}

Output example

{
  "title": "Her 6-year-old brought home an AI-generated photo from school. This mom isn’t having it",
  "source": "USA Today",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.usatoday.com",
  "sourceDomain": "usatoday.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-23T13:27:00Z",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/10/23/schools-embracing-ai-parents-worried/92359840007/",
  "articleDomain": "usatoday.com",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisgFBVV95cUxNTzhUVk54bHE1YUFQWC0wZ0JqdE8zSEVuM1AwRzJwMlN5dUhiMy1ITXpzMy0tOTQ0N29qZXVaZDRIcThpZlczbzBMeVppcTM4V0ZVbDYxN2lDWkk5a3liUm9VZTVaeTNUUVE0MkxaV0VNVGVVcWQ4S2Vqb1hQcU9oeXZqNXY...",
  "snippet": null,
  "relatedCoverage": null,
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "feedType": "search",
  "feedLabel": "artificial intelligence",
  "rank": 1,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en-US",
  "articleId": "CBMisgFBVV95cUxNTzhUVk54bHE1YUFQWC0wZ0JqdE8zSEVuM1AwRzJwMlN5dUhiMy1ITXpzMy0tOTQ0N29qZXVaZDRIcThpZlczbzBMeVppcTM4V0ZVbDYxN2lDWkk5a3liUm9VZTVaeTNUUVE0MkxaV0VNVGVVcWQ4S2Vqb1hQcU9oeXZqNXY3bmpLWExxdDN6QUEzc1dhSEwxRkplbE1sZXlu...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T19:27:17Z"
}

How much does it cost?

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Article (decoded publisher URL included)	$0.0015	$1.50
Full article text (only when extracted)	$0.0008	$0.80

Plus a $0.00005 start fee per run. Examples: 50 articles a day for a month (1,500) cost $2.25; 1,000 articles with full text cost about $2.30. Paywalled or blocked pages are not charged for full text.

Volume discounts on higher Apify plans. The prices above are for the Apify Free plan. On paid plans the per-result price drops automatically: about 15% lower on Bronze, 25% lower on Silver and 38% lower on Gold and above.

Use it via API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent

Apify API. Start a run and get the results back in one HTTP request (replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the token from Apify Console > Settings > Integrations):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plotpointtech~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["\"electric vehicles\" when:7d", "site:reuters.com tariffs"], "country": "US", "language": "en", "timeRange": "7d", "maxArticlesPerQuery": 50, "decodeUrls": true}'

For longer jobs, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes. Official apify-client libraries exist for Python and JavaScript; the API tab on this page has ready-made code.

No-code automation. Connect the tool to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable or any webhook with Apify integrations, and use Schedules in Apify Console to run it hourly, daily or weekly.

AI agents (MCP). Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP-compatible agent direct access to this tool through the hosted Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plotpointtech/google-news-scraper

The agent can then call the tool with the same input fields shown above and read the results.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google News? The tool reads Google News' public RSS feeds, which Google offers mainly for feed readers, and paces its requests. Headlines, snippets and especially full article text belong to the publishers. You are responsible for using the data in line with Google's and publishers' terms and copyright law (for example, link to articles rather than republishing them).

How many articles can I get per search? Google News returns about 100 articles per search. Above that, the tool splits the date range into smaller windows; very broad terms over long periods still return a sample.

Why is full text missing for some articles? Some publishers block automated visits or use paywalls. fullTextStatus says why.

Which editions are supported? Any Google News edition, for example US/en, GB/en, IN/en, DE/de, FR/fr, MX/es-419, BR/pt-419, JP/ja.

How is this different from the News Scraper (GDELT)? This tool follows Google News rankings and editions. Our worldwide News Scraper uses the open GDELT database, with tone scores and extracted entities.

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Plot Point Technologies is not affiliated with Google or Google News.

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