Google News Scraper

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Scrape structured Google News results by keyword, country, language, and time range. Use it for brand monitoring, PR tracking, competitor coverage, market intelligence, research datasets, and trend discovery.

Value prop

Google News is a fast way to see which publishers are covering a company, topic, person, product, industry, or event. This actor converts Google News results into clean dataset rows with headline, source, date, description, URL, language, and country so you can schedule monitoring or export results without building RSS parsing yourself.

Best fit:

• PR and comms teams monitoring mentions.
• Analysts tracking competitors, industries, and policy topics.
• Content teams finding timely stories.
• Researchers building repeatable news datasets.
• Investors and operators watching company and sector news flow.

What's new

• Keyword-based Google News extraction using a lightweight metadata-first workflow.
• Country and language targeting for localized coverage.
• Short time-range filters such as last hour, last day, last week, and last month.
• Output designed for Apify datasets, webhooks, scheduled monitors, and downstream enrichment.

What data you get

Field	Description
title	Article headline
source	Publisher or source name
published_date	Publication date when available
description	Google News summary text when available
url	Link to the article
language	Language input used for the run
country	Country input used for the run

Quick-start input examples

Monitor a brand in the US

{
  "queries": ["openai"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "1d",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Track competitor coverage in India

{
  "queries": ["zepto funding", "blinkit quick commerce", "swiggy instamart"],
  "country": "IN",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Build a topic dataset

{
  "queries": ["renewable energy policy", "battery recycling", "electric vehicle subsidies"],
  "country": "GB",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "30d",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Sample output snippet

{
  "title": "Tech stocks rally as AI infrastructure spending grows",
  "source": "Example News",
  "published_date": "2026-04-09",
  "description": "Major technology companies reported increased investment in AI infrastructure...",
  "url": "https://www.example.com/technology/ai-infrastructure-spending",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}

Use cases

• Brand monitoring: Track mentions of a company, product, executive, or campaign.
• Competitor intelligence: Watch announcements, funding, launches, layoffs, and regulatory news.
• PR reporting: Export recent coverage by source and date.
• Research datasets: Collect repeatable topic coverage across countries and time windows.
• Content ideation: Identify trending headlines for newsletters, blogs, and social posts.
• Financial monitoring: Follow news around tickers, sectors, suppliers, or customers.

Use cases & recipes

Step-by-step guides on thirdwatch.dev/blog:

• Build a News Aggregator with Google News (2026 Guide)
• Monitor Competitor Press Coverage with Google News (2026)
• Scrape Google News for Brand Monitoring at Scale (2026)
• Track Industry News with Google News at Scale (2026)

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Pricing examples

This actor uses pay-per-result pricing on Apify. You pay for article rows returned.

Current example tier table from this listing:

Tier	Price per result
FREE	$0.0015
BRONZE	$0.00125
SILVER	$0.001
GOLD	$0.00085

Example costs at the FREE tier price of $0.0015 per result:

Run size	Example cost
100 articles	$0.15
1,000 articles	$1.50
10,000 articles	$15.00

Check the actor pricing tab for the current live price and tier thresholds.

Limitations

• This actor returns article metadata, not full article body text.
• Some linked articles may be paywalled or blocked by the publisher.
• Google News rankings and available articles vary by country, language, time, and query phrasing.
• Publication dates are whatever Google News exposes and can be relative or approximate for some sources.
• Narrow time windows on low-volume topics may return fewer results than requested.

Competitor and comparison notes

• Compared with general Google Search scraping: Google News is better when you only want news coverage and source/date metadata. Search scraping is better for broader web results.
• Compared with full article extractors: This actor is faster and cheaper for discovery, but it does not fetch complete article bodies.
• Compared with media databases: This actor is self-serve and keyword-driven, but it does not include human curation, media contact databases, sentiment scoring, or guaranteed source normalization.
• Compared with RSS-only workflows: This actor lets you run many keyword, country, and language combinations from one Apify input.

FAQ

Can I monitor a brand continuously? Yes. Schedule the actor in Apify and store each run's results in your dataset, database, or webhook destination.

Do I get full article text? No. You get headline, source, date, description, URL, language, and country metadata.

Which languages and countries work? Use standard language and country codes supported by Google News, such as en, hi, es, fr, US, IN, GB, and DE.

How recent can results be? Use timeRange: "1h" for the last hour where Google News has matching coverage.

Why do results differ between countries? Google News localizes coverage and ranking by country, language, and query.

Support and custom builds

Need full article extraction, deduplication, sentiment, entity tagging, scheduled alerts, or dashboard-ready exports? Contact Thirdwatch at thirdwatch.dev or through the Apify actor support channel.

Last verified: 2026-04