Google News URL Feed

Keyword or topic in, news articles out: headline, source, published time and the publisher's article URL (resolved from the news.google.com link). One row per article.

What it is (and is not)

A Discover step for news and RAG pipelines. It reads Google News RSS and resolves each Google News link to the real article URL, so the next step can fetch the page. It does not download or parse the article text. Send articleUrl to an extractor:

Next step	Actor
Article text, byline, date	Smart Article Extractor
Readable page content	Website Content Extractor
Open Graph / JSON-LD / canonical	Web Metadata Extractor
Status / redirect check	HTTP URL Probe

Input	queries[] and/or topics[], optional when, maxArticlesPerFeed, language, country, resolveUrls
Output per article	title, source, sourceUrl, publishedAt, articleUrl, googleNewsUrl, feed, feedType, rank, status
Pricing	$0.005 per article listed ($5 / 1,000). Unresolved links and empty feeds are not billed.
Access	Google News RSS + Google News link decoding. No login, no API key, no browser.
Call it	REST skilled_glee~google-news-url-feed · MCP https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=skilled_glee/google-news-url-feed

Pipeline role (n8n / agents): Content / RAG → Discover. Full catalog: EchoEmpire Machine Foundry llms.txt.

Input

{
  "queries": ["n8n"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 5,
  "when": "7d",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}

• queries: Google News search terms. Operators such as site:reuters.com, intitle:, quotes and OR work as on Google News.
• topics: WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH (top stories of that section).
• At least one query or topic; up to 50 feeds per run.
• when (queries only): 12h, 7d, 1y, … Empty = Google News default.
• maxArticlesPerFeed (1–100, default 50). Google News RSS returns at most 100 items per feed.
• language / country: the Google News edition, e.g. en/US, de/DE, pt-BR/BR.
• resolveUrls (default true). Set false to get only news.google.com links (faster).

Output

Row from a real run (2026-10-29):

{"feed": "n8n", "feedType": "query", "rank": 1, "title": "n8n hosting early Black Friday deals 2026: Sale with up to 94% OFF", "source": "Cybernews", "sourceUrl": "https://cybernews.com", "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T14:54:54Z", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimAFBVV95...?oc=5", "articleUrl": "https://cybernews.com/deals/n8n-hosting-early-black-friday-deals-2026-sale-with-up-to-94-off/", "status": "ok", "error": null}

• title is the headline with Google's trailing " - Source" removed; source/sourceUrl come from the feed.
• publishedAt is the feed's pubDate in UTC.
• rank is the position in the feed (Google's order).
• status: ok, unresolved (Google News link could not be turned into a publisher URL; articleUrl is null, not billed) or error (feed failed or was empty; not billed).

SUMMARY in the default key-value store lists each feed URL, articles returned, unresolved count and whether a spending limit stopped the run.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	When	Price
article-listed	Once per article row with status: "ok" saved to the dataset	$0.005

No start fee. unresolved and error rows are free. Example: 10 queries × 50 articles = 500 × $0.005 = $2.50.

Limits

• Coverage, ranking and dates are whatever Google News RSS returns for the edition; this Actor does not add sources.
• Max 100 articles per query/topic per run (RSS limit). Use narrower queries or when windows for more.
• Link resolution uses Google News' own article-link decoder; if Google changes it or rate-limits, rows come back unresolved (free) rather than with a wrong URL.