Google News Scraper: Real Article Links & Top Stories

Scrape Google News for any keyword, topic section or city in 35 countries and get every article with the publisher's real URL (not a news.google.com redirect), the outlet, the publish time and, if you want, the image and summary. Articles about the same event are grouped into stories, and each search comes with a news report: top outlets, the biggest stories, and articles per day.

Most Google News scrapers stop at 100 results per search, because that is all Google returns. This one searches the time window one day at a time, so a single search can return thousands of articles: 2,000 for "nvidia" over a month in one test run.

No API key, no login, no proxy: it reads Google News's public RSS feeds.

What does this Google News scraper do?

query "nvidia" · United States · past month · 2,000 articles in 4 minutes

 2,000 real publisher links        408 outlets        1,315 stories
 top outlet   Yahoo Finance 25%    busiest day   23 Sep (110 articles)

 biggest stories   16 outlets  China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips
                   16 outlets  Nvidia-backed Nscale files for IPO
                   13 outlets  Nvidia unveils security platform to stop AI agents from going rogue

1. Search, topic or local feeds: keywords with Google News operators ("exact phrase", OR, -word, site:reuters.com, intitle:), sections such as Business or Technology, or local news for a city.
2. Past the 100 cap: longer windows are split into daily searches automatically.
3. Real links: every Google News link is turned into the article's own URL.
4. Stories: headlines that report the same event are grouped, so you can see which stories were covered by 30 outlets and which by one.
5. Report: one summary per search with top outlets, top stories, a daily timeline and the newest headlines.

Who is it for?

• PR and communications teams: track coverage of a brand, a launch or a crisis, and see which outlets picked it up
• Investors and analysts: every headline about a company or sector, with the stories that moved the most outlets
• Media monitoring and market research: daily or weekly news feeds per country, straight into a sheet or dashboard
• AI and data teams: clean, deduplicated news datasets with real URLs, ready for summarising or sentiment analysis
• Journalists and researchers: who reported a story first, and how coverage spread over the following days

What data do you get?

Every article (one row each, newest first):

Field	What it is
title, outlet, outletDomain	The headline and who published it
articleUrl	The publisher's own article URL
googleNewsUrl	The original Google News link
publishedAt, ageHours	When it was published, and how long ago
storyId, storySize	Which story it belongs to, and how many outlets covered that story
countries	The Google News editions it appeared in
image, description, language, siteName	From the publisher page, when "Add image and summary" is on

One news report per search, topic or place (NEWS_REPORT): article and outlet counts, topOutlets, topStories (with who reported first), articlesPerDay, busiestDay, medianAgeHours and the ten newest headlines.

Examples from live runs, 29 September 2026

Input	Articles	Real links	Outlets	Time
"nvidia", US, past month, up to 2,000	2,000	2,000	408	239 s
"Federal Reserve", US + UK, past week, up to 300 each	535	535	263	35 s
"artificial intelligence", US, past week (default)	100	100	72	10 s
"Elektroauto", Germany, 1 to 10 September	183	183	75	14 s
Top stories + Technology + Nairobi, DE, JP, KE, BR, with image and summary	745	745	196 in top stories	121 s

Times are from single runs; big runs spend most of their time looking up real links (about 8 a second at the default 1 GB of memory). In the Federal Reserve run the biggest story was the Fed's stablecoin proposals under the GENIUS Act, picked up by 29 outlets. Governor Barr's call for more rate hikes came next with 11. With image and summary switched on, 85% of articles came back with the publisher's image.

How to use it

1. Enter one or more search queries, or pick topic sections, or add places for local news.
2. Choose the countries (Google News editions) and a time range or exact dates.
3. Set max articles per query. Up to 100 needs one search; more is fetched day by day.
4. Run it, then download the articles as JSON, CSV or Excel, or open the news report.

Pricing

$0.001 per article, with its real link, story grouping and the report included. +$0.001 per article for image and summary, charged only when the publisher's page could be read.

100 articles cost $0.10; the 2,000-article Nvidia month above cost $2.00. Apify's free monthly credit covers several thousand articles.

Good to know

• Google's own limits. Google News returns at most 100 articles per search and only for the recent past. Daily splitting gets around the cap, but a quiet subject simply has fewer articles. A one-hour or one-day window cannot be split further, so it gives up to 100 per country.
• Newest first. When the maximum is reached before the whole window is read, you get the most recent days.
• Dates are in UTC. Google reads its own date filters in US Pacific time; this Actor corrects for that, so a date range means exactly those UTC days.
• Topic and local feeds show what Google News lists right now. They also list extra outlets under each story without a publish time; with image and summary on, the time is read from the publisher page, and otherwise storyLeadPublishedAt gives the lead article's time.
• Some publishers refuse automated visits (Reuters, WSJ and AP among them). Those rows still have their headline, outlet, date and real link; only the image and summary are missing, and they are not charged for them.
• Story grouping reads headlines, not full articles. It is tuned to keep unrelated news apart, so an event occasionally appears as two stories rather than being merged with a different one.
• No personal data. No author names or bylines are collected.

Input

Field	Meaning
Search queries	Keywords, one per line; Google News operators work
Topic sections	Top stories, World, National, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health
Local news for places	Cities or regions, e.g. London, Texas, Nairobi
Countries	35 Google News editions; duplicates across editions are removed
Published within	Past hour, day, week, month, year, or any time
From date / To date	Exact UTC dates, instead of the time range
Max articles per query and country	1 to 5,000
Real publisher links	On by default
Add image and summary	Reads each publisher page; off by default

Integrations

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or connect through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier and n8n. Schedule it hourly or daily to build a running news feed for your brand, competitors or market.