Google News Scraper – Articles, Real URLs, Topics, 55 Editions

Google News Scraper — real article URLs, deep search, $2 per 1,000

Scrape Google News by keyword or topic, in any country and language, and get clean article data: title, source, publication date, the publisher's real URL.

Made for media monitoring, brand & competitor tracking, PR teams, researchers, traders and AI agents / RAG pipelines.

Why this scraper

	This scraper	Typical Google News scrapers
Price	$2 / 1,000 articles	up to $4 / 1,000
Real publisher URL (not the news.google.com redirect)	✅	often ❌
More than 100 results per query	✅ Deep search splits the period by day	❌ capped at ~100
Topics (Top stories, Business, Technology…)	✅	partial
55+ country/language editions (+ any custom code)	✅	partial
Google News operators (site:, intitle:, quotes)	✅	✅

Output example

{
  "title": "Electric vehicles offer fuel savings, but affordability and charging access remain barriers in SA",
  "source": "IOL",
  "url": "https://iol.co.za/the-star/2026-10-18-electric-vehicles-offer-fuel-savings-but-affordability-and-charging-access-remain-barriers-in-sa/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-18T07:00:00.000Z",
  "sourceUrl": "https://iol.co.za",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi0AFBVV95cUxP…",
  "query": "electric vehicles",
  "language": "en-US",
  "position": 1
}

How to use

1. Add search queries (operators work: "generative AI", site:reuters.com, intitle:bitcoin) and/or pick topics.
2. Choose the language & country edition (55+ in the list, or type any code like fr-MA, ar-EG) and the time range.
3. Need more than ~100 results? Turn on Deep search (up to 90 days, day by day).
4. Keep Get real article URLs on to receive the publisher link.
5. Click Start, export to JSON/CSV/Excel, or schedule it (hourly/daily) for monitoring.

Pricing

$2.00 per 1,000 articles ($0.002 per article). No platform usage fees on top. Example: monitor 10 keywords daily × 50 articles = 15,000 articles/month = $30.

Use cases

• Media monitoring and PR: track every mention of a brand, product or spokesperson across countries and languages.
• Competitor tracking: follow news about competitors with site: and intitle: operators.
• Research: build datasets of headlines, sources and dates over up to 90 days with Deep search.
• Traders and analysts: watch news on companies, assets or sectors with hourly scheduled runs.
• AI agents and RAG pipelines: feed fresh headlines and real publisher URLs into your own retrieval system.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

You can call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com), using the Actor ID rt-solutions/google-news-scraper. Example request: "Find Google News articles about electric vehicles in South Africa from the last 7 days and list the sources." It also works through the Apify API, Make, n8n and Zapier.

FAQ

How do I scrape Google News without an API? Enter keywords or pick topics, choose the language and country edition and the time range, then start the run. You get titles, sources, dates and the publisher's real URL.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 Google News articles? $20, at $2.00 per 1,000 articles, with no platform usage fees on top.

Can I export to CSV, Excel or Google Sheets? Yes. Export the dataset to JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect it to Google Sheets through an integration.

Is it legal to scrape Google News? The Actor collects only titles, sources, dates and links that Google News shows publicly, and copies no publisher content. Use the data in line with the laws that apply to you.

Why only ~100 articles per query? That's Google News' limit per feed. Deep search splits your time range into single days and merges the results without duplicates.

Does it scrape full article text? No — titles, sources, dates and links only (no publisher content is copied).

How fresh is the data? Live: each run reads Google News at that moment. Schedule runs for continuous monitoring.

Need a field or a filter? Open an issue — we usually ship it within days.

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