# Google News to Markdown for RAG

**Use case:** 

Search Google News for any topic and get each article as clean Markdown, split into RAG-ready chunks with title, publisher, date, and URL metadata. Full text is extracted where the publisher allows it; otherwise you still get the headline and summary. Drop the chunks straight into a vector database. Pay per article.

## Input

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "topicUrls": [],
  "topicsHashed": [],
  "locale": "US:en",
  "timeWindow": "7d",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 5,
  "deduplicate": true,
  "extractFullText": true,
  "createChunks": true,
  "headingAware": true,
  "chunkSize": 1600,
  "chunkOverlap": 160,
  "minFullTextChars": 240,
  "concurrency": 4,
  "requestDelayMs": 250,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 25,
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Article URL",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "section": {
    "label": "Section",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "chunkIndex": {
    "label": "Index",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "startChar": {
    "label": "Start",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "endChar": {
    "label": "End",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "text": {
    "label": "Chunk",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Google News Scraper: Full-Text Articles to Markdown Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Google News to Markdown for RAG". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/h46Wj2tng8NrNCggh) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Google News to Markdown for RAG" task

The Google News Scraper: Full-Text Articles to Markdown Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like keywords / queries, topic feeds, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Google News to Markdown for RAG" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as title, article url, section, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Google News to Markdown for RAG" task via API](https://apify.com/sunburst077/google-news-to-markdown.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Google News Scraper: Full-Text Articles to Markdown](https://apify.com/sunburst077/google-news-to-markdown.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/sunburst077/google-news-to-markdown.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/sunburst077/google-news-to-markdown.md

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`).