Google News Scraper: Search, Topics, Any Country

Pull Google News articles for any search query, topic section or Top stories feed, in any language and country edition, as clean structured data: headline, the original article URL (not a Google redirect), publisher name and website, publish date, related coverage from other outlets and the full-coverage story link, plus, if you want them, the article's description and main image. Search operators work ("exact phrase", OR, site:, intitle:, -exclude), and a date range lets you go past Google's 100-results-per-feed limit.

$2 per 1,000 articles (less on paid plans), no start fee. No login, cookies or API key, and a default run finishes in seconds.

What you can do with it

• Media monitoring and PR: track every mention of your brand, competitors or executives, daily or hourly.
• Market and investment research: follow a ticker, sector or keyword (nvidia, "interest rates", site:reuters.com tariffs) and feed headlines into a spreadsheet, BI tool or LLM.
• News datasets: build a dated archive of headlines on a topic with a dateFrom/dateTo range.
• Newsletters and alerts: pipe fresh articles into Slack, email or Notion with Apify integrations and schedules.
• Local and international news: read the edition of any country (country: DE, language: de) or its topic sections.

Compared with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)

We built this to beat Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event) (data_xplorer/google-news-scraper-fast), the most-used Google News actor on Apify Store, on price with the same results. In October 2026 we ran both on the same 3 searches (artificial intelligence, site:reuters.com tariffs, Apify, US English, up to 100 articles each), theirs with URL decoding, descriptions and images on, ours with extractDetails on.

	This actor	Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
Articles returned	247	248
Original article URL (not a Google link)	100%	100%
Description, on the 239 articles both returned	118	122
Image, on the same 239	108	118
Related coverage + full-coverage story link	yes	no
Date range past ~100 articles per search	yes (dateFrom/dateTo)	no
Price per 1,000 articles, Free / Gold plan	$2.00 / $0.80	$4.00 / $1.00

Where they still win: a few more descriptions and images from publishers that refuse automated visits from cloud servers (Washington Post, CBS News, UPI in our test), and a configurable proxy.

Input

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "\"OpenAI\" site:reuters.com"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "timeframe": "1d",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Field	What it does
queries	One Google News search per line. Operators work. Default: artificial intelligence.
topics	Optional topic sections: Top stories, World, Nation, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Science, Sports, Health.
topicUrls	Any Google News topic or section page link copied from your browser (a sub-topic, a city, a team, a company).
language, country	Edition to read, e.g. en-US/US, en-GB/GB, de/DE, fr/FR, ja/JP.
timeframe	Last hour, 6/12 hours, 1/2/7/14/30 days or year (search queries only).
dateFrom, dateTo	Date range. Each query is split into day-sized windows (up to 60), so you can get well over 100 articles per query.
maxItemsPerQuery, maxItems	Caps per query and for the whole run (default 50). Duplicates across queries are removed first.
decodeUrls	Return the real publisher URL in url/publisherUrl (default on). Turn off for the fastest runs.
extractDetails	Also return each article's description and main image (imageUrl) from its own page (default off; slower).

How to use

1. Type your searches into Search queries (and/or pick Topic sections), and choose the language and country.
2. Optionally set Published within or a date range, and Max articles in total to cap your cost.
3. Click Start, then download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or schedule the run to repeat.

Output

One item per article:

{
  "title": "Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and food losses",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-12T14:30:09Z",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/hackers-heat-french-supermarket-fridges-2026-10-12/",
  "publisherUrl": "https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/hackers-heat-french-supermarket-fridges-2026-10-12/",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...?oc=5",
  "articleId": "CBMi...",
  "relatedArticles": [{"title": "...", "source": "BBC", "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/..."}],
  "storyUrl": "https://news.google.com/stories/...",
  "description": "Cyberattackers turned up the temperature of ... (with extractDetails)",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.reuters.com/resizer/... (with extractDetails)",
  "query": null, "topic": "BUSINESS", "language": "en-GB", "country": "GB",
  "position": 1, "scrapedAt": "2026-10-12T15:52:25Z"
}

Field	Meaning
title	Headline, with the trailing " - Publisher" removed.
source, sourceUrl	Publisher name and its home page.
publishedAt	Publish time (ISO 8601, UTC).
url	The article's own URL (the Google News link if it could not be resolved or decodeUrls is off).
publisherUrl	The original article URL on the publisher's site (null if not resolved).
googleNewsUrl	The Google News link from the feed.
description, imageUrl	The article's summary and main image from its own page (extractDetails; null when the publisher refuses automated visits).
relatedArticles	Other outlets' coverage of the same story (topic and Top stories feeds).
storyUrl	Google News "full coverage" page for the story, when given.
query / topic, position	Which input produced the article, and its rank in that feed.

Pricing

Pay per result: $2.00 per 1,000 articles on the Free plan, down to $0.80 on higher plans (article-scraped), no start fee. Duplicates and your caps are applied before you are charged. A run that finds nothing fails instead of silently returning an empty dataset.

Apify plan tier	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
per 1,000 articles	$2.00	$1.70	$1.30	$0.80	$0.80	$0.80

Limits and notes

• Google News returns at most about 100 articles per search. Use a date range to collect more; very broad queries can still be capped per day.
• Search results are ordered by Google's relevance, not strictly by date.
• Original URLs are resolved for nearly every article (1,141 of 1,141 in our 14-feed test, Oct 2026). If Google throttles a very large run, the rest keep the Google News link in url and publisherUrl is null.
• description/imageUrl come from the publisher's page; some publishers (paywalled or bot-protected sites) refuse, and those rows keep null.
• Headlines and short metadata only; this actor does not download full article text.
• Article headlines and content belong to their publishers. Check that your use fits the publishers' and Google's terms.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google.