# Google News Scraper – Real URLs & Timestamps (`stevenkramp/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News for any topic, country and language: title, source, snippet, exact publish time and the real article URL (not Google's redirect). Filter by past hour/day/week. $1.50 per 1,000 articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Steven Kramp](https://apify.com/stevenkramp) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 75.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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).

```json
{
  "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.

### More from stevenkramp

Other Actors by the same developer – same quality standards, pay only for results:

**Search & trends**

- [Google Trends Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-trends-scraper) – interest over time, regions, rising queries
- [Keyword Trends Finder](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/keyword-trends-finder) – keyword ideas with trend direction
- [Google Images Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-images-scraper) – full-size image URLs
- [Google Shopping Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-shopping-scraper) – prices and merchants
- [Google Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-jobs-scraper) – job listings

**Apps**

- [Google Play Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-play-store-scraper) – Android app data and rankings
- [Google Play Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/google-play-reviews-scraper) – Play Store reviews and ratings
- [Apple App Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/apple-app-store-scraper) – iPhone, iPad and Mac app data
- [Shopify App Store Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/shopify-app-store-scraper) – Shopify apps and pricing plans

**Research & media**

- [arXiv Papers Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/arxiv-papers-scraper) – research papers and abstracts
- [Apple Podcasts Scraper](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/apple-podcasts-scraper) – podcasts with latest episodes

**Websites & places**

- [Website SEO Audit](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/website-seo-audit) – broken links, titles, sitemap
- [Germany Neighborhood Profile](https://apify.com/stevenkramp/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.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Topics, brands or keywords to monitor, e.g. "electric cars", "Tesla", "Bundestag".

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Only articles published within this time window – perfect for daily media monitoring.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Up to 100 articles per query (10 per page). You only pay for articles returned.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code, e.g. us, gb, de, fr.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language code, e.g. en, de, fr.

## `resolveUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Turns Google's redirect links into the publishers' real article URLs (recommended).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "electric cars"
  ],
  "timeRange": "any",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "resolveUrls": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

One item per article.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Key fields as a table.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "electric cars"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("stevenkramp/google-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": ["electric cars"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("stevenkramp/google-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "electric cars"
  ]
}' |
apify call stevenkramp/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,stevenkramp/google-news-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/SOoSQcAbjb8B9lgKQ/builds/EZ5wzbAu98Jkm2gNg/openapi.json