Google News Scraper – Real URLs & Timestamps

Monitor Google News for any topic, brand or keyword in any country and language. Every article comes with the real publisher URL (not Google's redirect link) and the exact publish timestamp, ready for media monitoring, PR reports, trading signals or LLM pipelines.

$1.50 per 1,000 articles. You only pay for articles returned.

What you get for each article

Field	Example
title	One year after the end of the EV tax credit, is the future still electric?
source	NPR
url	https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/… (real article URL)
publishedAt, timeText	2026-09-30T09:00:00+00:00 · "2 days ago"
snippet	short summary shown by Google (when available)
googleLink, docId, clusterId	Google's link and IDs (clusterId groups articles about the same story)
query, position, country, language, scrapedAt	run context

Use cases

• Media monitoring and PR: track mentions of your brand, competitors or executives.
• Market and investment research: news flow per company or sector with exact timestamps.
• Content and LLM pipelines: feed fresh, deduplicated article URLs into summarizers or RAG systems.
• Local news: set country and language, e.g. de/de for German regional news.

How to use

1. Enter search queries (topics, brands, keywords).
2. Pick Published within (past hour, day, week, month, year) for monitoring runs.
3. Set country and language, and max articles per query (up to 100).

{
  "queries": ["electric cars", "Tesla"],
  "timeRange": "day",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Tip: Schedule the Actor hourly or daily with timeRange = past hour/day and connect it to Slack, e-mail or Google Sheets via Apify integrations.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0015 per article returned ($1.50 per 1,000 articles), plus Apify's tiny actor-start fee. Platform usage is included.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool for AI assistants and agents – Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, n8n and other MCP clients – through Apify's hosted MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=stevenkramp/google-news-scraper

Sign in with your Apify account when asked. Your agent can then call the Actor in plain language, for example: "Collect today's news about Tesla with the real publisher URLs." – and gets clean, structured JSON back. Runs started by your agent are normal Actor runs on your Apify account at the same pay-per-event price.

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• Google Jobs Scraper – job listings

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• Apple App Store Scraper – iPhone, iPad and Mac app data
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Research & media

• arXiv Papers Scraper – research papers and abstracts
• Apple Podcasts Scraper – podcasts with latest episodes

Websites & places

• Website SEO Audit – broken links, titles, sitemap
• Germany Neighborhood Profile – German neighborhood rents and vacancy

FAQ

Why do a few articles have no snippet? Google doesn't show a summary for every story, for example in "Top stories" layouts.

Do you scrape the full article text? No. The Actor returns Google News metadata and the real URL. If you need the full text, combine it with a content crawler.

Something broken? Open an issue in the Issues tab. We fix scrapers quickly when Google changes its pages.