# Google News Scraper: Search, Topics, Real Article URLs (`quiethand098/google-news-rss-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword or topic in any country and language, with time filters and decoded real publisher URLs. No API key, no proxy.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quiethand098/google-news-rss-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Quiet Hand](https://apify.com/quiethand098) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 news 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: search, topics and real article URLs

Search Google News by keyword (with operators like `site:` and quoted phrases) or pull its built-in topic feeds, in any country and language. Every result includes the headline, publisher, publish time and the **real article URL** (not the Google redirect).

### Why use it

- **Real URLs**: Google's redirect links are decoded to the publisher's page, so you can feed them straight into a crawler or LLM pipeline.
- **Time filters**: last hour, day, week, month, year.
- **Many queries per run**, deduplicated, with the originating query on each row.
- **No API key, no browser, no proxy**: fast and cheap.
- **Pay per article.**

### Input

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `queries` | Keywords or search operators |
| `topics` | WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH |
| `country`, `language` | Edition, e.g. `GB` / `en`, `DE` / `de` |
| `timeRange` | any, 1h, 1d, 7d, 30d, 1y |
| `maxItemsPerQuery` | Up to 100 |
| `resolveUrls` | Decode the real article URL (default on) |

### Output example

```json
{ "query": "openai", "title": "...", "source": "Reuters", "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-06T21:10:00.000Z", "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/...", "googleLink": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..." }
```

### Use cases

Media monitoring, brand and competitor alerts, market research, news datasets for LLM and RAG pipelines, SEO and PR tracking.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords or Google News search operators, e.g. `openai`, `"interest rates" site:reuters.com`.

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

Optional built-in Google News topics.

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

Two-letter country code (US, GB, DE, IN, ...).

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

Language code (en, de, fr, es, ...).

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

Only articles published within this window.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Google News returns up to about 100 per query.

## `resolveUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Replace Google redirect links with the publisher's actual article URL.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "resolveUrls": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quiethand098/google-news-rss-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 = { "queries": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quiethand098/google-news-rss-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 '{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call quiethand098/google-news-rss-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,quiethand098/google-news-rss-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/WkhK4bw1TRQGV9rns/builds/MM89lS6tIFGx41QTF/openapi.json