Google News Scraper: search, topics and places with real publisher URLs

Search Google News for any keyword, read its front-page topics or local headlines, in 50 country and language editions, and get clean rows: headline, publisher, the publisher's real article URL (not Google's redirect link), publish time, related coverage and, if you ask for it, the article text, author and lead image.

Schedule it hourly or daily with How recent and you have a news feed for a brand, a competitor, a market or a person. Set Published after / before with a high Max articles and it goes past Google's 100-story cap by splitting the range into day windows.

$2.50 per 1,000 articles with publisher URLs, platform usage included. No API key, no login.

What you get

One row per article:

Field	Description
title	Headline, without the " - Publisher" suffix Google appends
publisher, publisherDomain	Who published it, e.g. Reuters and reuters.com
publisherUrl	The publisher's real article URL, decoded from Google's redirect link (empty if you turn the option off or Google would not decode it)
googleNewsUrl	Google News' own link
publishedAt	ISO publish time
query, topic, place	Which input found it (only one is set)
rank	Position in Google's results for that input
edition, language, country	The Google News edition you searched
relatedArticles	Other coverage Google grouped under the story (topic and place feeds): title, publisher and Google link
snippet, author, imageUrl, body	From the publisher's page, with Include article text only
bodyStatus	ok, paywalled, blocked, no-text, gone, failed, or why no page was read
capturedAt	When the row was collected

The same story found through several queries is delivered once.

Who uses this

• PR and brand teams. Track every mention of a company, product or executive, with the outlet and the real link. For ongoing alerts across news, Hacker News and more, see Brand & News Monitor.
• Market, finance and competitive intelligence. Pull the last week or month of coverage for a ticker, a sector or a rival, one outlet at a time with site:.
• AI and research teams. Build news datasets with article text by topic, language or country.
• SEO and content teams. See which outlets cover your topics and what Google ranks first.

Input

Field	What it does
Search queries	One per line. Google's own operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:merger
Topics	Front-page sections: Top stories, World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science, Health
Places	City, region or country for local headlines, e.g. Paris, Texas
Edition	50 Google News editions (language and country): sets the language and country of the results
How recent	Any time, past hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, past year
Published after / before	Exact dates (2026-10-01, inclusive). Overrides How recent
Max articles per query	Up to 5,000. Google serves at most 100 per search, so above 100 (or with exact dates) the actor splits the range into day windows
Resolve the publisher URL	On by default
Include article text	Off by default. Adds text, author, lead image and description from the publisher's page

Example:

{
  "queries": ["openai", "\"interest rates\" site:reuters.com"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "edition": "en-US",
  "publishedAfter": "2026-10-01",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 400,
  "resolvePublisherUrl": true,
  "includeArticleText": false
}

Pricing

Pay per event, platform usage included, plus a flat start fee per run.

Plan	Article	+ Publisher URL resolved	+ Article text read	Run start
Free	$2.00 / 1,000	$0.50 / 1,000	$1.00 / 1,000	$0.001
Bronze	$1.80 / 1,000	$0.45 / 1,000	$0.90 / 1,000	$0.001
Silver	$1.60 / 1,000	$0.40 / 1,000	$0.80 / 1,000	$0.001
Gold	$1.40 / 1,000	$0.35 / 1,000	$0.70 / 1,000	$0.001

• Article is charged for each row delivered. Publisher URL resolved only for links that were actually decoded. Article text read only for pages whose text was really extracted: paywalled, blocked and text-less pages are named in the status and in bodyStatus and are not charged as text.
• A default run (URLs on, text off) is $2.50 per 1,000 articles on the Free plan.
• Queries Google has nothing for cost nothing beyond the start fee. Set a maximum charge per run and the actor stops when it is reached.

Limits and honest caveats

• 100 stories per search window. Google News serves at most 100 stories per search and orders them by relevance, not time. The actor goes deeper by splitting the date range in halves until each window is under the cap, down to single days. A single day that still hits 100 may hold more: add site: or a sharper phrase. The status says when this happened.
• Topic and place feeds hold what Google features right now (about 30 to 70 stories). They have no history; schedule the run.
• Snippet. Google News no longer sends article snippets. snippet is the publisher page's own description and is filled only with Include article text.
• Publisher URLs come from the same decoding call Google's own article page makes. If Google throttles it, the row keeps its Google News link, publisherUrl is empty, it is not charged as resolved, and the status counts how many.
• Article text is read straight from the publisher's page. Sites that block automated requests (many large outlets), sit behind a paywall or render only in JavaScript return no text; the row says which. Free local and trade outlets work best.
• Dates and time zones. after: / before: operate on whole days (UTC); publish times are exact.
• The data is Google News' public feed; Google's terms apply to how you use it.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No.

Can I get more than 100 results for a keyword? Yes: give a date range (or set a Max above 100) and the actor works through it day by day.

Why is publisherUrl empty for a row? You turned resolution off, or Google refused to decode that link. The run status says how many.

Can I search one outlet? Yes: site:reuters.com tariffs.

How is this different from Brand & News Monitor? That actor watches your brand names across Google News, GDELT and Hacker News and, in monitor mode, reports only mentions it has not reported before. This one is the general Google News search and export tool: operators, topics, places, 50 editions, date ranges and article text.

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• Brand & News Monitor: mention alerts for your brand or topics.
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