Google News Scraper — News API & News Data with Full Text

Get news articles from Google News for any search, topic or date range, in 58 country editions: title, source, publication date, the real article URL (not just the Google redirect), and the other outlets covering the same story. Turn on one option to also get the full article text, word count, author, description and main image, ready for AI, sentiment analysis or media monitoring.

No browser: a search of 50 articles takes about 8 seconds. Google News shows about 100 articles per search; set a date range and the Actor searches day by day to get hundreds or thousands.

A News API alternative without a monthly plan: you only pay for the articles you get.

Who uses it

• Media monitoring and PR: every article mentioning a brand, a CEO or a competitor, every day.
• Finance and research: news about tickers, companies and sectors, with dates, for signals and backtests.
• AI and RAG pipelines: fresh full-text articles to summarize, classify or feed to an LLM.
• Content and SEO teams: what is trending in a niche and who publishes it.
• Developers and AI agents: a simple news API with real URLs.

What you get

Data	Field
Title, source and source website	title, source, sourceUrl
Publication date (UTC)	publishedAt
Real article URL and Google News link	url, googleNewsUrl
Other coverage of the same story (topics)	relatedArticles[]
Full text and word count (option)	text, wordCount
Author, description, main image, language (option)	author, description, imageUrl, language
Search, topic, position and edition	query, topic, position, edition

How to use

1. Add search queries, one per line. Google News operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -word, site:reuters.com, intitle:tesla.
2. Or pick topics: Top stories, World, Business, Technology, Sports, Science, Health...
3. Choose the country and language edition, and optionally Published within (last hour, day, week...) or exact dates.
4. Set Max articles per search. With dates, ask for more than 100 and the Actor searches day by day.
5. Turn on Full article text if you need the content.
6. Run, then download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or get the results through the API.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["openai", "\"electric vehicles\" site:reuters.com"],
  "edition": "US:en",
  "dateFrom": "-7",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 500,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "extractText": true
}

Output example

{
  "type": "article",
  "query": "climate change",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Mount Hood's missing snow worries scientists",
  "source": "Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.opb.org",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T18:02:11Z",
  "url": "https://www.opb.org/article/2026/10/16/mount-hood-snow-climate/",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "author": "April Ehrlich",
  "description": "The peak has looked more like a large, gray rock than a glacier-topped mountain.",
  "imageUrl": "https://static.opb.org/mount-hood.jpg",
  "language": "en",
  "wordCount": 1035,
  "text": "A towering white Mount Hood has long defined Portland's eastern skyline...",
  "textAvailable": true,
  "edition": "US:en",
  "status": "ok"
}

Values in this example are illustrative.

Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee per run, a fee per article, and a fee per article whose full text was read. Bigger Apify plans pay less. See the Pricing tab for exact prices on your plan.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops before going over it. Searches that find nothing, and articles whose text can't be read (paywalls), are never charged for text.

Good to know

• Google News keeps search results for recent years. Each feed holds about 100 articles, so dates are what lets you go further.
• Full text comes from the publisher's page. Paywalled or bot-protected sites (some business newspapers) return textAvailable: false.
• Dates are in UTC. The same article is never returned twice for one search.

Use it with

• AI agents and MCP: add this Actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other MCP clients), LangChain, LlamaIndex or CrewAI.
• No-code automation: n8n, Make and Zapier, for example a daily brand-mention digest to Slack or email.
• Spreadsheets and dashboards: Google Sheets, Excel, Looker Studio.
• Developers: the Apify API, Python and JavaScript clients, webhooks and scheduled runs.

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This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google. Google News is a trademark of Google LLC. Article texts belong to their publishers; use them in line with each publisher's terms.