Google News Scraper + Full Article Text

Scrape Google News search results, topic sections and top headlines for any country and language — with the real publisher URL (not Google's redirect link) and the full article text extracted and cleaned. Built for AI/LLM pipelines, RAG, media monitoring, PR tracking and market research.

Why this scraper

• Real article URLs — Google News links are encoded redirects; this Actor resolves every one to the actual publisher URL.
• Full text, cleaned — article body without menus, ads or cookie banners, plus author, lead image and description.
• Honest billing — you pay a small fee per article, and the full-text fee only when real text was extracted. Paywall teasers (textPartial), blocked publishers and empty searches are free.
• Any edition — choose country and language (US, GB, AU, IN, DE, FR, JP…).
• Google News search operators — "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:.

Input

Field	Description
searchQueries	What you'd type into Google News
topics	Top stories, World, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Science, Sports, Health, Your country
country, language	Google News edition, e.g. US + en, DE + de
timeRange	Any time, past hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days (search queries)
maxArticles	Per query/topic, up to 100
fullText	Extract article text (on by default); turn off for headlines only

Output

{
  "query": "tesla roadster",
  "rank": 1,
  "title": "Tesla Roadster Event: How to Watch & What to Expect",
  "source": "Not a Tesla App",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.notateslaapp.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-13T18:15:00Z",
  "url": "https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4818/tesla-roadster-event-...",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "author": "Nehal Malik",
  "image": "https://...",
  "description": "...",
  "text": "After nearly a decade of waiting, Tesla is finally ready...",
  "textLength": 4701
}

If text can't be extracted you get textError (e.g. publisher blocked automated access) or textPartial: true (paywall teaser) — neither is charged as full text.

Pricing

Pay per event: one article charge per article returned, plus one full-text charge only when full article text was extracted.

FAQ

How many articles per query? Google News returns up to 100 per query; split broad topics into several queries for more. Paywalled sites? You get the headline, URL and any free teaser; the full-text fee is not charged. Do all articles get full text? Most news sites do, but some large publishers (e.g. Reuters, Forbes, some newspapers) block all automated access with JavaScript bot checks. For those you still get the title, source, date and real URL, and you are not charged the full-text fee. Typical full-text coverage is roughly half to two-thirds of articles, depending on the sources in your results.