Google News Scraper – Search Results as JSON/CSV

Search Google News for any keyword, topic or brand name and get back real article results — title, source, published date, link and snippet — as clean, structured data. No proxies, no browser, no blocked requests: just fast, reliable news search results ready for JSON, CSV, Excel or your API pipeline.

Price: $0.0015 per article result ($1.50 per 1,000). You only pay for articles actually returned — an empty or failed search costs $0.

Why choose this Actor

	This Actor
💵 Price	Pay only per article result, no monthly rental
🛡️ Pay only for success	Empty searches and failed requests cost $0
⚡ Fast & lightweight	No browser, no proxy required — just a direct RSS fetch
🌍 Any language / country	Search any Google News edition (language + country)
🧹 Deduped results	Repeated/syndicated stories are automatically removed
📅 Structured dates	Publish dates normalized to ISO 8601
🤖 AI-agent ready	Callable from Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor through Apify's MCP server

What you can use it for

• 📰 Media monitoring – track every article mentioning your brand, product or competitor.
• 🤖 AI & RAG pipelines – feed fresh, real news headlines and snippets into an LLM or vector database.
• 📈 Market & trend research – see how coverage of a topic changes day to day.
• 🔍 SEO & PR tracking – find every outlet that picked up a story or press release.
• 🗂️ Newsletter & content curation – pull the latest headlines on a topic automatically.

Features

• ✅ Search any keyword, phrase or brand name
• ✅ Any language and country edition of Google News
• ✅ Returns title, link, source, publishedAt (ISO 8601), snippet per article
• ✅ Automatic deduplication of repeated/syndicated stories
• ✅ Configurable result cap (maxItems, up to 200 per run)
• ✅ No proxy or browser required — fast, direct RSS fetch
• ✅ Empty or failed searches are never charged

How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter a search query (keyword, topic or brand name).
3. (Optional) set maxItems, language and country.
4. Click Start and download your results from the Output tab.

Input example

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}

Field	Description
query	Search term, phrase or brand name (required)
maxItems	Maximum number of articles to return (default 30, max 200)
language	Google News language code, e.g. en, es, de (default en)
country	Google News country/edition code, e.g. US, GB, IN (default US)

Output example

Real output from a test run against the query "artificial intelligence":

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "title": "Bill Gates says unchecked AI could 'cause a billion deaths' in call for regulation",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxNX3U0dW9FbGNsVVd0bGt4MlRzRTBZMkE2NWZOYUZlUkxOd3puUEwxdkR1YXNIaHdFNUtaYzJ3cGlOTHM2ckdBbHhLZmYtbUlnalJ2QmZYVS00RFROaksyY01xUnRCSXFzcEppNElYd1NOV21KNWJXVEVPVHBVZUppSEZPRVQzVmhtdlA4ZWp4emlaQmwxblpxVjRVWGM0dw?oc=5",
  "source": "The Guardian",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "Bill Gates says unchecked AI could 'cause a billion deaths' in call for regulation The Guardian Bill Gates warns AI could be used to trigger 'a billion deaths,' urges regulation abc45.com Bill Gates says getting countries to agree on AI regulations will be harder than Cold War-era nuclear negotiations NBC News",
  "status": "ok"
}

Note: Google News' RSS feed doesn't provide a separate article summary — snippet reflects the headline text and related-coverage outlets as published in the feed, not independently written summary text.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0015 per article result returned ($1.50 per 1,000). No monthly rental, no charge for empty or failed searches. Apify's free plan gives you monthly credits so you can try it for free.

Quick start in Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("siftwright/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "maxItems": 30,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["publishedAt"], item["source"], item["title"])

Use it via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/siftwright~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"artificial intelligence","maxItems":30}'

Works with Python and JavaScript API clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex. AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can call it directly through Apify's MCP server.

FAQ

Does it use Google's official News API? No — there is no official Google News API for this. The Actor reads Google News' public RSS search feed, the same feed available to any RSS reader, and returns it as structured data.

Why did a query return 0 results? Very obscure or misspelled queries can return no matching articles. Empty result sets are never charged.

Can I search a different country or language edition? Yes — set language and country to any Google News-supported combination, e.g. language: "de", country: "DE".

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