Google News RSS Search — Headlines API

Monitor companies, competitors, industries, people, products, or topics in Google News and return clean, structured headline records without maintaining a browser scraper.

Use it for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, market intelligence, research, lead context, news alerts, and automated monitoring workflows.

Common use cases

• Monitor mentions of a company, brand, executive, or product
• Track competitors and industry developments
• Collect headlines for market or investment research
• Watch niche topics using quoted phrases or site: operators
• Feed fresh news records into dashboards, datasets, alerts, or downstream automations

What you get

• searches Google News RSS for up to 50 queries;
• supports country and language/locale hints;
• optionally adds a recency filter such as 1 day or 7 days;
• preserves the exact source query and feed URL;
• returns title, publisher, publication time, Google News article URL, and feed description;
• deduplicates repeated stories across queries;
• caps query and output volume;
• exports through the Apify dataset/API.

Try it

{
  "queries": ["OpenAI", "electric vehicles"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "recency": "7d",
  "maxResults": 200,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100
}

You can use Google search operators inside a query, including quoted phrases and site:. If your query already contains a when: operator, the Actor leaves it unchanged.

Output

Each row contains:

• title;
• source and source homepage URL when Google supplies it;
• publishedAt;
• googleNewsUrl;
• a clean text description derived from the feed;
• original query and exact sourceQuery;
• global accepted rank and per-query queryRank;
• locale;
• exact sourceFeedUrl;
• UTC capturedAt.

Pricing

Pay per unique article record saved. Duplicate rows and empty queries are not billed as articles.

Source / provenance

Results come from the public Google News RSS search feed. Each saved row preserves the exact query, source query, feed URL, and capture time so the record can be traced back to the source response.

Important limitations

This Actor is a fast headlines/feed API, not a full-article scraper. It does not use browser automation, proxies, logins, an API key, AI summaries, or fabricated popularity metrics.

Google News RSS normally exposes a snapshot of up to roughly 100 items for one query. This MVP does not attempt deep historical pagination or guaranteed final-publisher URL resolution. The googleNewsUrl is the URL supplied by the public Google News RSS feed. For full article text or guaranteed publisher URLs, use a product designed for that heavier job.

Google controls the feed format and result set. A headline in the feed is not a statement of accuracy, endorsement, or completeness by this Actor.

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