# Free Google News API — Search News by Keyword + Country (`s-r/google-news`) Actor Free Google News scraper — get clean structured news results for any query, country, and language. Use it as a Google News API for brand monitoring, topic alerts, news clipping, and bulk article URL harvesting. - **URL**: https://apify.com/s-r/google-news.md - **Developed by:** [SR](https://apify.com/s-r) (community) - **Categories:** News, Business - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $4.00 / 1,000 results 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Free Google News Scraper — News API & Brand Monitor The free Google News scraper. Search Google News for any query, country, and language — get clean structured JSON results (title, URL, source, publish date, snippet) without parsing HTML, fighting CAPTCHAs, or managing rotating proxies. Use it as a **Google News API**, a **brand-monitoring data source**, or a backbone for a **news-aggregation pipeline**. ### What you get - Up to 100 articles per run - Title, article URL, source publisher, RFC-822 publish date, plaintext snippet - Recency filter (`when=24h`, `when=7d`, `when=1y`) — pull only fresh news - Sort by newest or oldest - 50+ countries via Google's `hl`/`gl`/`ceid` edition system - Structured JSON output ready for downstream pipelines ### Why use this Google News scraper There is **no official Google News API** anymore. Google retired the News Search API in 2011 and has never replaced it. To get programmatic news data you have to either pay $400-1500/month for a news-API SaaS, or scrape Google News yourself and fight RSS quirks, region filters, and session blocks. This Actor handles all of that for you. Use it for: - **Brand monitoring** — alert on every mention of your brand or product - **Topic tracking** — clip news around a keyword, country, language - **Competitor monitoring** — watch what news is published about competitors - **News aggregation pipelines** — batch-pull news for downstream NLP / summarization - **Sentiment / market-research** — feed article URLs to your analysis layer ### Input | Field | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | `q` | required | Search query | | `hl` | `en` | Article / UI language (ISO 2-letter) | | `gl` | `US` | Geo country (ISO 2-letter) | | `ceid` | derived | Override Google News edition (e.g. `NL:nl`) | | `sort` | `newest` | `newest` or `oldest` | | `when` | — | Recency window: `Nh`, `Nd`, `Nm`, `Ny` | | `limit` | 10 | Number of articles (1-100) | ### Output (sample) ```json { "rank": 1, "title": "Example article title", "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...", "source": "Reuters", "published": "Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT", "snippet": "First sentence of the article…", "query": "elections", "hl": "en", "gl": "US", "ceid": "US:en", "sort": "newest", "when": null, "fetched_in_seconds": 0.7 } ```` ### Use cases - Brand monitoring across markets - Topic / keyword news clipping for analyst reports - Recency-filtered alerts piped to Slack / email - Bulk article URL harvesting for NLP / summarization - Competitor PR monitoring - News-driven trading / signal pipelines ### Limits - Google News RSS returns at most ~100 items per query - Returns slightly different sets per region/language (Google policy) - Returns the RSS-feed snippet only — for the full article body, pair with the URL-to-Markdown Actor # Actor input Schema ## `q` (type: `string`): What to search for on Google News. Required. ## `hl` (type: `string`): Two-letter ISO language code for article language and UI (e.g. en, nl, de, fr). ## `gl` (type: `string`): Two-letter ISO country code (e.g. US, NL, GB, DE). ## `ceid` (type: `string`): Country:language edition override (e.g. NL:nl). Leave blank to derive from gl/hl. ## `sort` (type: `string`): Order results by recency. ## `when` (type: `string`): Limit results to a recent window. Format: Nh / Nd / Nm / Ny (e.g. 24h, 7d, 1y). Leave blank for no filter. ## `limit` (type: `integer`): Maximum articles to return (1–100). ## Actor input object example ```json { "q": "climate", "hl": "en", "gl": "US", "sort": "newest", "limit": 10 } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("s-r/google-news").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("s-r/google-news").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{}' | apify call s-r/google-news --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=s-r/google-news", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Free Google News API — Search News by Keyword + Country", "description": "Free Google News scraper — get clean structured news results for any query, country, and language. Use it as a Google News API for brand monitoring, topic alerts, news clipping, and bulk article URL harvesting.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "bs392fKSTAQ0EhFxu" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/s-r~google-news/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-s-r-google-news", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/s-r~google-news/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-s-r-google-news", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/s-r~google-news/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-s-r-google-news", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "q" ], "properties": { "q": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "What to search for on Google News. Required." }, "hl": { "title": "Interface / article language", "pattern": "^[a-zA-Z]{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter ISO language code for article language and UI (e.g. en, nl, de, fr).", "default": "en" }, "gl": { "title": "Geo country", "pattern": "^[a-zA-Z]{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Two-letter ISO country code (e.g. US, NL, GB, DE).", "default": "US" }, "ceid": { "title": "Edition override (advanced)", "type": "string", "description": "Country:language edition override (e.g. NL:nl). Leave blank to derive from gl/hl." }, "sort": { "title": "Sort order", "enum": [ "newest", "oldest" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order results by recency.", "default": "newest" }, "when": { "title": "Recency filter", "pattern": "^\\d+[hdmyHDMY]$", "type": "string", "description": "Limit results to a recent window. Format: Nh / Nd / Nm / Ny (e.g. 24h, 7d, 1y). Leave blank for no filter." }, "limit": { "title": "Number of results", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum articles to return (1–100).", "default": 10 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```