Google News Scraper

Scrapes Google News for any query. Extracts the full canonical news-vertical schema: title, URL, source, publisher (with logo and verified flag), excerpt, thumbnail, publish date, author, category, topics, breaking/featured flags, and more.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Google News results into one clean JSON record per article, including publisher details, canonical URL, excerpt, thumbnail, publication time, author and category when available, result flags, and search provenance.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 46-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• News monitoring
• Publisher and topic research
• Article-feed enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"Elon Musk"	The search term to use for finding news articles on news.google.com
maxItems	integer	Yes	50	Maximum number of news articles to retrieve
hl	string	No	"en-US"	The language code for Google News interface (e.g., en-US, en-IN, fr-FR)
gl	string	No	"US"	The country code for Google News (e.g., US, IN, GB, FR)
deepScrape	boolean	No	true	If true, visits each article page to extract full content (author, full text, images, etc.). This is slower but provides much richer data.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	Apify Proxy configuration. Use RESIDENTIAL group for best results.

Example input

{
  "query": "ai",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "GOOGLE_SERP"
    ]
  },
  "hl": "en-US",
  "gl": "US",
  "deepScrape": true
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per news article result. The following are the most useful fields; full text, author, publisher verification, topics, and images depend on the result and the deepScrape setting.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
type	string	Type
title	string	Title
description	string	Description
url	string	URL
link	string	Link
source	string	Source
query	string	Query
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
publishedAt	string	Published At
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail
resultType	string	Result Type
page	integer	Page
titleHtml	string	Title HTML
displayUrl	string	Display URL

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "type": "news",
  "title": "Artificial intelligence",
  "description": "Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligenceRead more",
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "link": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence",
  "source": "Wikipedia",
  "query": "ai",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T11:50:25.500Z",
  "resultType": "newsArticle",
  "domain": "en.wikipedia.org",
  "host": "en.wikipedia.org"
}

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