Google News Monitor: brand and competitor mention alerts (Google News scraper)

Monitor Google News for your brand, competitors, executives, products or any keyword. Each run returns matching articles with title, publisher, publish date and link, plus one summary row per query covering articles in the last 24 h, the newest article and the top publishers.

Schedule it with onlyNew: true and every run returns, and charges for, only new articles. It gives you a press-mention feed for Slack, email, Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or AI agents.

No login, no API key and no proxies. Data comes from public Google News search feeds. By Signalgrid.

Use cases

• PR and comms: brand mention monitoring every hour or every day (timeWindow: "1d").
• Competitive intelligence: launches, funding, layoffs and partnerships of competitors ("Competitor OR \"Competitor Inc\"").
• Sales triggers: news about target accounts, such as hires, expansions or funding.
• Investors and analysts: company and ticker news across country editions.
• AI agents and RAG: a fresh, deduplicated headline feed for summarisation.

Input examples

Hourly brand alert:

{"targets": ["\"Acme Robotics\"", "AcmeBot -recipe"], "onlyNew": true, "monitorId": "acme-pr", "timeWindow": "1d"}

Weekly competitor digest, UK edition, skipping stock-ticker spam:

{"targets": ["HubSpot", "Salesforce", "Pipedrive"], "country": "GB", "language": "en", "timeWindow": "7d",
 "onlyNew": true, "monitorId": "crm-weekly", "excludeSources": ["MarketBeat", "Simply Wall Street"]}

Google News operators work in queries: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:techcrunch.com.

Output

Article row:

{"type":"article","query":"HubSpot","title":"HubSpot co-founder apologizes for ...","source":"Boston.com",
 "sourceUrl":"https://www.boston.com","publishedAt":"2026-10-13T15:01:33Z","isNewSinceLastRun":true,
 "googleNewsUrl":"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...","articleId":"290c84c3de90852b5312"}

Query summary row: articlesFetched, itemsDeliveredThisRun, newSinceLastRun, articlesLast24h, newestPublishedAt, topSources.

Pricing and fair charging (pay per event)

• $1.00 per 1,000 articles, plus $0.002 per query summary per run.
• Error rows are free, for example an invalid query or a temporary outage at Google News.
• Max charge respected: the Actor stops cleanly and keeps undelivered articles "unseen", so your next run returns them. You never pay twice for an article.
• Duplicate queries are removed. If Google News is down for every query, the run fails and charges nothing.

Example: an hourly check of 3 queries that finds 4 new articles costs 3 × $0.002 + 4 × $0.001 = $0.01.

FAQ

Does it return the full article text? No. You get headlines, publisher, date and link, which keeps it fast and cheap. How many results per query? Up to about 100, which is Google News's own limit. Narrow the timeWindow for busy topics. Is the googleNewsUrl a redirect? Yes. It opens the publisher's article.

Limits

Public data only, and it isn't affiliated with Google. Coverage and ranking are decided by Google News.