# Changelog of Google News Scraper — Headlines, Topics & Full Coverage (`sian.agency/google-news-scraper`) Actor

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## Changelog

All notable changes to **Google News Scraper** will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-06-08]

#### 🎉 Google News Scraper — Launch!

- **News Search API Alternative** — search Google News by keyword with a published-time filter (past hour → past year) and an optional source-domain restriction; the Google News search API you can use today with no developer account
- **Top Headlines by Country** — pull the latest top stories for any two-letter country code, ready for a dashboard or daily news digest
- **Topic & Publisher Feeds** — aggregate a Google News topic feed (World, Business, Technology, Sports, Science, Health) **or** a single publisher's feed via its publication ID (CNN, BBC, Reuters, any outlet)
- **Local & Geo Headlines** — geo-based news for any city or region for regional press monitoring and local-SEO research
- **Full-Story Coverage — a SIÁN exclusive** — the entire coverage cloud of one story: top news, every sub-article, **and** posts from X (formerly Twitter) when available, each row tagged `_rowType: article | tweet` — the column no other Google News scraper returns
- **Language List Helper** — look up the valid languages for any country code so you never guess locale combinations again

#### 💎 User Benefits

- **Zero setup, no API key** — no Google News API key, no RSS feed parsing, no developer registration, no proxy management; paste an input and click Run
- **Pay per result, no rental wall** — charged only for successful rows plus a small one-time start fee; no monthly subscription, you pay only for the news rows you pull
- **Analyst-friendly, engineer-complete** — curated camelCase fields (`articleTitle`, `snippet`, `sourceName`, `storyId`, `sourcePublicationId`) plus raw upstream data spread on every row, with HTTPS-normalized article, photo, logo, and favicon URLs
- **Composable pipeline** — every row carries a re-queryable `storyId` (chains into Full-Story Coverage) and `sourcePublicationId` (chains into a publisher feed), so the six operations compose into a workflow
- **Never billed for failures** — failed lookups land as `status:"error"` rows at $0

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- PR & comms teams running scheduled brand, product, and executive **news monitoring** and diffing datasets to catch every new mention
- Analysts mapping **full-story coverage** — how one narrative spreads across outlets and X — for media-monitoring and share-of-voice reporting
- Newsletter editors and LLM/RAG pipelines aggregating structured **topic and publisher feeds** on a schedule
- Market researchers and local-SEO agencies tracking **local geo headlines** for regional press intelligence
- Data teams feeding thousands of clean article rows into **sentiment analysis** and NLP models for competitive intelligence