# Google News Scraper: Search, Topics, Any Country (`tidyharvest/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Google News articles for any search, topic or section, any language and country: headline, original article URL, publisher, date, related coverage, plus description and image on request. Built to beat data_xplorer's Google News Scraper: same original URLs at half its price. From $2 per 1,000.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tidyharvest/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [TidyHarvest](https://apify.com/tidyharvest) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 article scrapeds

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?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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)](https://apify.com/data_xplorer/google-news-scraper-fast)
(`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

```json
{
  "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:

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One search per line, exactly as you would type it into Google News. Operators work: "exact phrase", OR, -exclude, site:reuters.com, intitle:earnings. Each query returns up to ~100 articles (more with a date range below).

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

Optional: also pull Google News topic sections (or Top stories) for the chosen language and country.

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

Optional: any Google News topic or section page link copied from your browser (e.g. a sub-topic like Artificial intelligence, a city, a team or a company page).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Google News interface language code, e.g. en-US, en-GB, de, fr, es-419, ja, pt-BR.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country edition, e.g. US, GB, IN, DE, FR, JP, BR.

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

Only articles from the last hour/day/week etc. Applies to search queries. Ignored when a date range is set.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional start date (YYYY-MM-DD). With a date range each query is split into day-sized windows, so you can collect far more than 100 articles per query (one feed request per window, up to 60 windows).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional end date (YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive). Defaults to today when only a start date is set.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap per query or topic. 0 = no per-query cap.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on results for the whole run (also caps your cost). Duplicates across queries are removed before counting.

## `decodeUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Return each article's real publisher URL in `url` and `publisherUrl` instead of a Google News redirect link. On by default; turn off for the fastest runs.

## `extractDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also read each article's own page for its description (summary) and main image (`description`, `imageUrl`). Slower; some publishers refuse automated visits, and those rows keep null.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "timeframe": "any",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "extractDetails": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

One item per article.

# 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 = {
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tidyharvest/google-news-scraper").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 = { "queries": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tidyharvest/google-news-scraper").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call tidyharvest/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/eSrXyinRt1ZLcDOy5/builds/E1fZbQR4dafwP9tI1/openapi.json