Google News Scraper

Scrape news articles from Google News for any search query. Extract article titles, publisher names, publication dates, and direct article links.

What data do you get?

For each news article, the scraper extracts:

• Article title (cleaned, without source suffix)
• Source/publisher name (e.g., "Reuters", "CNN", "TechCrunch")
• Publisher URL (e.g., "https://www.reuters.com")
• Article URL (direct link to the article)
• Publication date (RFC 2822 format)
• Search query that matched the article

How to use

Basic usage

Set one or more Search Queries and run. The scraper fetches Google News results for each query.

Input example

{
  "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence", "climate change"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Search keywords to find news articles (required)
language	string	Language code for results (default: "en")
country	string	Country code for regional results (default: "US")
maxResults	integer	Maximum total articles to scrape (default: 100)
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	Maximum articles per query (default: 50, max ~100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings

Supported languages

Use standard language codes: en, de, fr, es, it, pt, ja, ko, zh-CN, ar, ru, etc.

Supported countries

Use ISO country codes: US, GB, DE, FR, CH, AT, JP, KR, CN, BR, IN, etc.

Output example

{
  "title": "OpenAI launches new reasoning model",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "source_url": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-launches-new-model-2026-03-31/",
  "snippet": null,
  "published_at": "Mon, 31 Mar 2026 14:30:00 GMT",
  "image_url": null,
  "search_query": "artificial intelligence",
  "source_platform": "google-news",
  "scraped_at": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z"
}

Tips

• Each query returns up to ~100 articles from the Google News RSS feed.
• Datacenter proxy works fine for Google News RSS feeds.
• Set country and language to target specific regional news (e.g., DE/de for German news).
• Results are deduplicated across queries by article URL.
• Article URLs are resolved from Google News redirects to direct publisher links when possible.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing:

Event	Price
Per news article	$0.001

Technical details

• Built in Go with TLS fingerprinting for reliable access
• ~12MB Docker image, 128MB RAM
• Parses Google News RSS/XML feed (structured data, no brittle CSS selectors)
• Automatic URL resolution from Google News redirects
• Rate-limited to be respectful to Google's servers

If something is not working or you're missing a feature, please open an issue and we'll look into it.

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