# Google News Scraper - Articles with Real Publisher URLs (`plotpointtech/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or location in any country and language: headline, publisher, date, the real article URL (decoded) and related coverage, with optional full text. $1.50 per 1,000 articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/plotpointtech/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Plot Point Technologies](https://apify.com/plotpointtech) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.93 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

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

### Output example

```json
{
  "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):

```bash
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.

### Related tools from Plot Point Technologies

- [News Scraper - Worldwide News Search by Keyword, 65+ Languages](https://apify.com/plotpointtech/worldwide-news-search): news articles worldwide by keyword, country and language.
- [Google Trends Trending Now Scraper - Live Trending Searches](https://apify.com/plotpointtech/google-trends-trending-now): live Google trending searches by country with volume and news.
- [Google Trends Scraper - Interest, Regions & Queries, $1/1K](https://apify.com/plotpointtech/google-trends-scraper): interest over time, by region and rising queries in bulk.
- [Website to Markdown Crawler for AI, LLM & RAG - $1/1K](https://apify.com/plotpointtech/website-to-markdown-crawler): any website as clean Markdown for LLMs and RAG.

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

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One Google News search per line. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:word, when:7d, after:2026-01-01, before:2026-02-01.

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Google News topic sections to read (latest headlines for the chosen country and language).

## `locations` (type: `array`):

City, region or country names for Google News local headlines, e.g. "Indianapolis" or "Bavaria".

## `topStories` (type: `boolean`):

Also read the Google News top stories (home page) feed for the chosen country and language.

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional news.google.com topic, search or publication URLs copied from your browser. They are converted to the matching RSS feed.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code for the Google News edition, e.g. US, GB, IN, DE, FR, JP, BR.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code for the edition, e.g. en, de, fr, ja. Latin American Spanish is es-419; Brazilian Portuguese is pt-419. Must be a combination Google News offers for the country.

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Only for search queries, when no dates are set: how far back to search.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Date (YYYY-MM-DD). Applied to searches with Google's after: operator and to every feed as an exact filter. Overrides Time range.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Date (YYYY-MM-DD), inclusive.

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Google returns up to about 100 articles per search. Above 100, the date range is split into smaller windows automatically to collect more.

## `decodeUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Resolve each Google News link to the publisher's own article URL (included in the article price). Turn off for the fastest runs.

## `extractFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Download each publisher page and extract the main article text, author, image and description. Charged as a separate event, only when text is found. Needs decoded URLs.

## `includeRelatedCoverage` (type: `boolean`):

Add the other outlets' headlines and links Google groups with a story, when present.

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Skip articles already returned by an earlier query in the same run (same Google article, same publisher URL, or same headline from the same source).

## `splitDateRange` (type: `boolean`):

When Max articles is above 100 and a date range or time range of 2+ days is set, search day windows separately to collect more than Google's 100-item limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Used only if Google rate-limits the run (HTTP 429). Requests go direct otherwise.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "topStories": false,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 50,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "extractFullText": false,
  "includeRelatedCoverage": true,
  "deduplicate": true,
  "splitDateRange": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("plotpointtech/google-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["artificial intelligence"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("plotpointtech/google-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call plotpointtech/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,plotpointtech/google-news-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FCxUATgtEBkWYzTSi/builds/leY2vIXYVARMb0bgq/openapi.json