Google News API & Scraper - Headlines by Keyword & Country

Google News API & Scraper is a REST API on the Apify platform: one request returns the headlines of any Google News search, topic or top stories feed, in any country and language Google News covers, as JSON, CSV or Excel. You can also run it from a form in the Apify Console, without code.

What does Google News API & Scraper do?

Google News API & Scraper returns the headlines of any Google News search or topic: one clean record per article, with typed values (numbers, booleans, ISO dates) ready for spreadsheets, databases and AI pipelines.

• Search Google News by keyword with its own operators (exact phrases, site:, -word, when:), or read topics and top stories
• Any country and language Google News has an edition for, and every record says which edition it came from
• Clean headlines without the publisher suffix, the publisher's name, website and domain, ISO publish times, feed position and the related coverage Google groups with a story
• One article found by two searches is stored and charged once, by its Google News ID
• The time range filter runs before billing: older articles are never charged
• An error item with a clear code for every feed that yields nothing, never charged
• Plain HTTP on the public RSS feeds, no browser, no login. Pay only per result: no monthly rental, no minimums

Use cases

• Monitor news about your company, brand or competitors every hour or every day
• Track a topic across publishers for media monitoring and PR reports
• Feed fresh headlines with publishers and publish times into an LLM, a RAG pipeline or an AI agent
• Build headline datasets by country and language for research

Why this Google News article scraper?

• Cheaper than typical alternatives ($1.00 vs $2.50 per 1,000 results)

How it compares

Google News article scraper	Users (last 30 days)	Successful runs (last 30 days)	Price per 1,000 results
Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)	562	99.5%	$4.00
Google News Scraper	366	100.0%	$2.00
Google News Scraper	206	99.5%	$2.30
This Actor	new	every release is tested on live pages first	$1.00

Apify Store data from 2026-11-11, free-plan prices. Prices and stats change; check each listing before you compare.

Google News API

Every Apify Actor is also a REST endpoint, so Google News API & Scraper works as a Google News API, a Google News RSS API or a news API, without a server of your own. One POST starts a run, waits for it and returns the results:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rocketyard~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items

Send your Apify API token in the Authorization header and the input as the JSON body. Add ?format=csv or ?format=xlsx to get CSV or Excel instead of JSON. The request waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/rocketyard~google-news-scraper/runs and read the dataset when it finishes.

How it works

Google News publishes every search, every topic section and the top stories of each edition as a public RSS feed, the format feed readers use. The Actor builds the feed URL for each search and topic you give it, with the country, language and time range you pick, reads it over plain HTTP, one request per second, with no browser, login or cookies, and turns each item into a typed record: the headline without the publisher suffix Google adds, the publisher's name, website and domain, the publish time in ISO 8601, the item's Google News link and ID, its position in the feed and, in topic and top stories feeds, the other outlets Google groups with the story. It reads nothing but the feeds: the article link is Google News' own, and the Actor does not call Google's internal endpoints to decode it, so records carry no publisher article URL. Articles outside your time range are not charged, and an article found by two feeds is stored and charged once.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add what you are looking for to Search queries, pick Topics, or paste Google News URLs.
3. Set Country, Language and Time range if you need another edition or only recent news.
4. Click Start, then download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Input

Field	JSON key	What it does
Search queries	queries	What to search for, as you would type it into Google News. Its operators work: "exact phrase" in quotes, site:reuters.com for one publisher, -word to leave a word out, OR between alternatives.
Topics	topics	Google News sections to read, or the edition's top stories. Leave empty to read searches only.
Google News URLs	startUrls	RSS feeds or pages copied from news.google.com: a search (news.google.com/search?q=...), a topic (news.google.com/topics/...) or the home page. Each is read as its RSS feed, in its own country and language.
Country	country	Two-letter country of the Google News edition, such as US, GB, DE, IN or BR.
Language	language	Language of the edition, such as en, de, fr, hi or pt-419. For a country and language pair Google News has no edition for, it serves its nearest one, and each record's country and language say which.
Time range	timeRange	Only articles published in this period. Searches send it to Google as when:, and every feed is also filtered by publish time. Older articles are not charged.
Max articles per search or topic	maxArticlesPerQuery	Stop each feed after this many stored articles. Empty means all it lists: up to about 100 for a search, fewer for a topic.
Max articles	maxItems	Stop after this many stored articles, across all searches, topics and URLs.
Proxy configuration	proxyConfiguration	Optional proxy. Leave empty to use the IP address of the Apify server running the Actor.

Input example

{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "electric vehicles site:reuters.com"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "TECHNOLOGY"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxItems": 300
}

Output example

A real record from the latest test run (news.google.com) on 2026-11-11. Fields the page didn't publish are left out here; the Actor returns them as null.

{
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/BUSINESS?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en",
  "type": "NewsArticle",
  "title": "Nvidia hires leading US law firm to investigate Jensen Huang’s relationship",
  "sourceName": "The Guardian",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "sourceDomain": "theguardian.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-11T11:52:00.000Z",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxPVE0zY21CWUpFX2xVMEZJRll3dzgxc19BYXFXLWxxWnk1eF9uSmtEZU5KVDVqZ29KOEVxdUJpdWlJU3IzQzNfUDVubHV3bzA2WFJwRC02eTdHcWZSb2FJX19JY2hsdHlzdHhlMmZMd2JGN080UnJ0R2lERXdocVowRkd5UlAzODVvclJ3eGVRbW5lZWVuaVpKT2tlNkFCWjdZbHVOVGd3a2E5VlhtNjJUbDRURDlVT0thaGtNWXYt…",
  "guid": "CBMiwgFBVV95cUxPVE0zY21CWUpFX2xVMEZJRll3dzgxc19BYXFXLWxxWnk1eF9uSmtEZU5KVDVqZ29KOEVxdUJpdWlJU3IzQzNfUDVubHV3bzA2WFJwRC02eTdHcWZSb2FJX19JY2hsdHlzdHhlMmZMd2JGN080UnJ0R2lERXdocVowRkd5UlAzODVvclJ3eGVRbW5lZWVuaVpKT2tlNkFCWjdZbHVOVGd3a2E5VlhtNjJUbDRURDlVT0thaGtNWXYtMGtLdw",
  "relatedArticles": [
    {
      "title": "This Trader Raised Alarm About Nvidia’s China Entanglements Months Ago",
      "sourceName": "The New York Times",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxOX2FTU2VwZWc4azh1MzNySzJzQ29qWXV4akVDNUF3Y0g3NjR4VDRvdUtZRkNDd2tuTnpvS3hUc0VFR185YU9WNjhpa25zcWtYSkJWbnhMOE1fWFpXd0UtMloxZmtmMzBMZFJjWWhwbXU4Q2NrRkVsTExvdTRVTmFmTTB6Z0QyYXdnZmx3?oc=5"
    },
    {
      "title": "Alice Huang’s tangled web of connections",
      "sourceName": "Financial Times",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPVk43WnVwbC1WMi04SVJVWGlDSE5wblZ4ZkhrQl9OWjQxS0FUUmJuVTVRaU9QdkNTenFWSlk1blU5c2FjVTBqQkNsZUZ3bWFtUnF3d0hfUkU3OUJ4Q3RGUW1LZ0VGRzByekw0OTJfblNHRmlhZmNYbXZXdG5pbnlyOTZocXM?oc=5"
    },
    {
      "title": "Trump says FBI investigating Nvidia boss's affair with alleged Chinese spy",
      "sourceName": "BBC",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXkFVX3lxTFA4NURrdXNUTnFfYmp3REZhcGdPeTNfYlNXOHlfaHZ3LS1DU1o1by0wT1MyeHdFQnZrRXFMSndOeXVVRGNPd0JCemZMSlBwOGpxV0s2Mmc2Z0pzTHlReGc?oc=5"
    },
    {
      "title": "Nvidia shares rebound 4% as Huang faces scrutiny ahead of earnings",
      "sourceName": "CNBC",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigAFBVV95cUxNalRRWWRUS0VHb2Q4Y0dhNFdWY1BzTWlqWG8yOXBwZVJtRlFOck5iZlMzcmJlTHZnRkNaZ0hNUXBrTkptb0xqU3RBSUo5V09ERzlxb095YmRmRHNZaFVYVVhUY0ZxN1E4Q0twdFhLTzA0N0lDTnpXUGl3Szc2eHVUcw?oc=5"
    }
  ],
  "topic": "BUSINESS",
  "country": "GB",
  "language": "en",
  "position": 1,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-11T13:01:57.000Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
url	The Google News RSS feed the article was read from (error items for a feed carry the same url)
type	Always NewsArticle
title	Headline, without the " - Publisher" suffix Google adds
sourceName	Publisher, as Google News names it
sourceUrl	Publisher's website (its home page), from the feed. Not the article's own URL
sourceDomain	Domain of the publisher's website, without www.
publishedAt	Publish time in ISO 8601 (UTC), from the feed
googleNewsUrl	Google News' link to the article (news.google.com/rss/articles/...). A browser that opens it is sent on to the article; the Actor does not decode it
guid	Google News' ID of the article: the same article has the same guid in every feed and run
relatedArticles	Other outlets' coverage of the same story, as Google groups it: title, sourceName and googleNewsUrl each. Top stories and topic feeds only; null for search results
query	The search that found the article; null in topic feeds
topic	The topic that listed the article (TOP_STORIES for top stories, a topic ID for a pasted topic URL); null in searches
country	Country of the Google News edition the feed came from (US, GB, DE...)
language	Language of that edition (en, de, pt-419...)
position	Rank in the feed, from 1: Google's own order
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of the extraction

Error items

When an input produces no data, the dataset gets one error item for it, so nothing is skipped silently. Error items are free: only result records are charged.

{
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=xqzvbnmlkjhgfdsa&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
  "input": "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=xqzvbnmlkjhgfdsa&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
  "error": {
    "type": "https://rocketyard.dev/errors#empty",
    "title": "Nothing published",
    "detail": "Google News has no articles for \"xqzvbnmlkjhgfdsa\" right now (edition US:en).",
    "instance": "https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=xqzvbnmlkjhgfdsa&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en",
    "code": "EMPTY"
  }
}

The error object follows RFC 9457 (Problem Details). Its type links to the explanation of the code, and status is the site's HTTP status when there was one. Filter on error.code to separate failures from data; it has its own column in CSV and Excel exports.

Code	Meaning	Retry?
PRIVATE_ADDRESS	The URL, or a redirect from it, points to a private or local network address. Only public websites are fetched.	no
NOT_FOUND	The page or source does not exist (HTTP 404 or 410).	no
BLOCKED	The site refused access (HTTP 401, 403 or 429) or answered with a bot-check or consent page instead of the content.	sometimes
HTTP_ERROR	The site answered with another HTTP error: a server error (5xx) that persisted after retries, or an unexpected 4xx status.	sometimes
TIMEOUT	The site did not answer in time, even after retries.	yes
NETWORK_ERROR	The connection failed (DNS, TLS or a reset connection), even after retries.	yes
WRONG_CONTENT_TYPE	The URL returned something the Actor doesn't read, such as a PDF or image instead of an HTML page, or a web page where an API response was expected.	no
TOO_LARGE	The response exceeded the size limit (10 MiB for web pages, 48 MiB for API responses).	no
PARSE_ERROR	The response could not be read (malformed HTML or JSON).	sometimes
EMPTY	The source has nothing to return right now: a list with no open items, a store or collection with no products, a search with no results, or a web page whose HTML has no readable text (often a page built only by JavaScript in the browser).	no
NO_MATCHES	The source has items, but none of them matched your filters.	no

Limits

• googleNewsUrl is Google News' link to the article (news.google.com/rss/articles/...). A browser that opens it is sent on to the article, but the Actor does not decode it, so records have no publisher article URL. sourceUrl is the publisher's home page.
• A search feed lists about 100 articles at most (102 in our test on 2026-11-11), and topic feeds fewer (66 for Technology, 38 top stories). For more, split a search by time range, publisher (site:) or wording.
• The feeds carry no article text, images or authors: the item's description holds only its headline and, for grouped stories, the related coverage returned in relatedArticles.
• Google News has editions for some country and language pairs only. For any other pair Google serves its nearest edition (KZ with ru gets Russia's, DE with en gets the US one), and country and language say which edition each record came from.
• Google may answer an IP address with a CAPTCHA or a consent page, or refuse it with HTTP 401, 403 or 429. The Actor then stores one free BLOCKED error item and stops the run, keeping what it stored so far. It never tries to get past a block. Run it again later.

Pricing

Pay per result: $1.00 per 1,000 articles, plus a tiny per-run start fee. Articles outside your time range, articles already stored from another feed of the run, and feeds that yield nothing are not charged. There is no monthly rental, and you can cap spend per run with Max results or Maximum cost per run.

Integrations and API

Run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript/Python clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain or any MCP-compatible AI agent, and send results to Google Sheets, webhooks, S3 and more. Schedule it to track changes over time.

FAQ

Which news does it cover? What Google News lists for a logged-out visitor: any search, the topic sections (World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health) and the top stories, in any country and language Google News has an edition for. Feeds and pages copied from news.google.com work too: search, topic and home page URLs.

Does it return the publisher's article URL? No. googleNewsUrl is the link Google News puts in its feed; opening it in a browser takes you to the article. Getting the publisher's URL would mean calling Google's internal endpoints for every article, which this Actor does not do. sourceName, sourceUrl and sourceDomain name the publisher.

Can I use search operators? Yes. A query goes to Google News as you write it: an "exact phrase" in quotes, site:reuters.com for one publisher, -word to leave a word out, OR between alternatives, and when:1h, when:1d or when:7d for recent news. Time range adds when: for you.

How do I get news from another country or in another language? Set Country and Language, for example GB and en, DE and de, IN and hi, or BR and pt-419. Each record's country and language say which Google News edition it came from.

Is this the official Google News API? No. Google offers no public Google News API. This is an independent Actor that reads Google News' public RSS feeds and is not affiliated with Google. It needs no API key.

How do I monitor news every hour or every day? Schedule the Actor on Apify with Time range set to the past hour or the past 24 hours. An article keeps its guid across runs, so you can skip the ones you already have.

How much does it cost? You pay per result: $1.00 per 1,000 articles, plus a start fee of $0.00005 per run, with no subscription. Cap any run with Maximum cost per run.

How do I call it from the API? One request starts a run and returns its results, using your Apify API token:

$curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rocketyard~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"queries":["artificial intelligence","electric vehicles site:reuters.com"],"topics":["TECHNOLOGY"],"country":"US","language":"en","timeRange":"7d","maxItems":300}'

How do I use it with AI agents? Connect Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com?tools=rocketyard/google-news-scraper, and the agent can call this Actor as a tool.

Is it legal to scrape Google News data? The Actor reads Google News' public RSS feeds, which anyone can open without logging in, and uses no account cookies. It does not check robots.txt, and Google's robots.txt disallows the /rss path the feeds are served from. Each feed's copyright notice says it is made available for personal, non-commercial use in a feed reader. The Actor never solves CAPTCHAs or passes consent pages and bot checks, and headlines belong to their publishers. You are responsible for how you use the data under Google's terms, the publishers' rights and the law (for example copyright).

What happens when an input fails? A feed that yields nothing gets one error item with a code and the reason, and is not charged, and the other feeds still run. A block is different: when Google answers with a CAPTCHA or a consent page, or refuses the request, the Actor stores one free BLOCKED item and stops the whole run, keeping the articles already stored.

I need a field that is not supported. Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Requests are reviewed regularly and drive new features.

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Rocketyard builds pay-per-result scrapers for public web data, and every release is tested on live pages before it ships. Guides for this Actor: overview, REST API, MCP for AI agents and n8n, Make and Zapier.