# Google News Scraper + Full Article Text (`potato_44/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Google News search, topics and top headlines for any country, with the real article URL and the full article text extracted - ready for AI, RAG and media monitoring. Pay only for articles delivered.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/potato_44/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Streamline Data](https://apify.com/potato_44) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Anything you would type into Google News. Supports operators like "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:.

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

Google News sections (headlines). Can be combined with search queries.

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

Google News edition, two-letter code: US, GB, AU, IN, CA, DE, FR...

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

Language code, e.g. en, de, fr, es, ja.

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

Only for search queries (topics are always the latest).

## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`):

Google News returns up to 100 articles per query.

## `fullText` (type: `boolean`):

Open each article and extract its clean text, author and image. Turn off for headlines only (faster and cheaper).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "any",
  "maxArticles": 20,
  "fullText": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One item per article: title, source, date, real URL and full extracted text.

# 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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "electric vehicles"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("potato_44/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 = { "searchQueries": ["electric vehicles"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("potato_44/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 '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ]
}' |
apify call potato_44/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,potato_44/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/f0wkWedKbrnYofonL/builds/yWsbwcghIoAglMJEx/openapi.json