# Google News Intelligence — Topic Articles via RSS (`teamkamkod/google-news-intel`) Actor

Fresh Google News articles by topic or custom section via public RSS — pure HTTP, no API key, no browser, no proxy. Deterministic rows: title, source, publishedAt, url, image. Keyword search and AI news briefs are roadmap phases.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/teamkamkod/google-news-intel.md
- **Developed by:** [Team Kamkod](https://apify.com/teamkamkod) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 50.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.20 / 1,000 article-rsses

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Google News Intelligence — Topic Articles via RSS

Fresh Google News articles by topic or custom section, via the **public RSS**
endpoints — pure HTTP, **no API key, no browser, no proxy**. Deterministic
structured rows for news monitoring, media watch and AI agent pipelines.

### Input

- `topics` — WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH,
  ENTERTAINMENT (empty = top stories). Each topic = one feed; merge results
  across feeds.
- `topicUrls` — custom Google News section feeds: full RSS URL or the path
  after `/rss/` (e.g. `/headlines/section/geo/France`).
- `region_language` — `ll:CC`, default `fr:FR` (`en:US`, `en:GB`, `de:DE`…).
- `timeframe` — `1h`/`1d`/`7d`/`30d` freshness filter (client-side on `publishedAt`).
- `maxArticles` — global cap (default 50, max 500).

### Output (one row per article)

```json
{
  "kind": "article",
  "title": "…",
  "source": "Le Monde.fr",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-07T08:35:00+00:00",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/…",
  "imageUrl": "https://…",
  "accessMethod": "rss",
  "region": "fr:FR",
  "feed": "topic:WORLD"
}
```

### Pricing

`article-rss` — **$0.004 / article returned** (parité avec le prix standard du
mieux noté du marché — son $1/1k affiché est le palier Gold, la majorité de ses
acheteurs paient $0.004 ; coût de revient quasi nul côté nous : aucune raison de
brader). Runs returning nothing cost nothing.

### Honest notes

- Google News RSS item links are Google redirect URLs (`news.google.com/rss/articles/…`)
  that resolve to the publisher — we return them as-is.
- `source` comes from the RSS `<source>` tag; a few items lack it (null).
- RSS feeds are bounded (~30-100 items) regardless of `maxArticles`; timeframe is
  applied client-side to `publishedAt`, unparseable dates are kept with their raw value.
- **Images**: Google News topic RSS carries no media — `imageUrl` is null by design.
  Image enrichment (og:image via redirect resolution) is an optional roadmap toggle.

### Roadmap

- Phase 2: keyword search (RSS `search?q=` — volume/rate-limiting to measure,
  proxy budgeted in the price)
- Phase 3: AI News Brief (dominant themes + tone + top sources over an article set)

# Actor input Schema

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Topic sections to pull (each topic = one RSS feed). Empty = top stories. Combine with topicUrls freely; results are merged up to maxArticles.

## `topicUrls` (type: `array`):

Custom Google News section feeds: full RSS URL (https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/...) or the path after /rss/ (e.g. /headlines/section/geo/France).

## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`):

Total cap across all selected feeds.

## `region_language` (type: `string`):

Edition of Google News: language 2 letters, colon, country 2 letters (fr:FR, en:US, en:GB, de:DE...).

## `timeframe` (type: `string`):

Client-side filter on publishedAt (RSS has no server-side time param). 30d = no filtering.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "topics": [],
  "topicUrls": [],
  "maxArticles": 50,
  "region_language": "fr:FR",
  "timeframe": "1d"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One dataset item per article: title, source, publishedAt, url, imageUrl (null via RSS), accessMethod, region, feed.

## `input` (type: `string`):

The input used for this run.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("teamkamkod/google-news-intel").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("teamkamkod/google-news-intel").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 '{}' |
apify call teamkamkod/google-news-intel --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/EPHWOCBdqDGwgPQlx/builds/yk5bnHjsQhp8sF30Y/openapi.json