# Google News Scraper - Headlines, URLs and Full Text (`tiger19935/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or country: headlines, sources, dates, real article URLs and optional full article text. Monitor brands, markets and competitors.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tiger19935/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Andrew Boiko](https://apify.com/tiger19935) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 75.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.40 / 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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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google News Scraper - headlines, sources, publisher URLs and full text

Collect Google News articles by keyword, topic or front page, in any country/language edition. Get structured results (title, source, date, real article URL, related coverage) and optionally the full article text.

### What you get

- Search by keyword with operators, time range, site include/exclude
- Topic feeds (World, Business, Technology, Science, Health, Sports, Entertainment, Nation) and top stories
- Direct publisher URLs instead of news.google.com redirect links
- Optional full text, description, author and image
- Monitor mode: schedule the actor and receive only new articles
- JSON, CSV, Excel via the dataset, plus a run summary in the OUTPUT record

### Pricing (pay per event)

- article: each article pushed to the dataset
- fulltext: extra charge only when text was actually extracted

### Example input

{"queries": \["artificial intelligence regulation"], "language": "en", "country": "US", "timeRange": "7d", "resolveUrls": true, "maxItemsPerQuery": 50}

### Example output

{"title": "...", "source": "Reuters", "publishedAt": "2026-10-13T09:12:00.000Z", "url": "https://...", "urlResolved": true, "query": "artificial intelligence regulation"}

### Notes

Google News feeds return up to about 100 articles per query. Run several related queries to widen coverage. Some publishers block automated page requests; those articles are returned without text and are not charged for full text.

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords or phrases to search in Google News. Supports Google operators such as "exact phrase", OR, and intitle:.

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

Pull the top headlines of a Google News topic.

## `includeTopStories` (type: `boolean`):

Also fetch the main Google News front page for the chosen edition.

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

Two-letter language code of the edition (en, de, fr, es, pt, it, uk, pl, ja ...).

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

Two-letter country code of the edition (US, GB, DE, FR, UA, BR, IN ...).

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Only articles published within this period (applies to search queries).

## `sites` (type: `array`):

Restrict results to these domains, for example reuters.com.

## `excludeSites` (type: `array`):

Remove results from these domains.

## `includeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keep only articles whose title or source contains at least one of these words.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop articles whose title or source contains any of these words.

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

Google News returns up to about 100 items per feed.

## `resolveUrls` (type: `boolean`):

Convert Google News links into the real article URLs.

## `fetchFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Open each publisher page and extract text, description, author and image. Billed per article with text.

## `maxTextChars` (type: `integer`):

Truncate article text to this many characters.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Skip articles already returned by earlier runs with the same monitor key. Ideal for scheduled runs.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Name of the watchlist used for the seen-articles memory.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel article lookups.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence regulation",
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "includeTopStories": false,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "timeRange": "any",
  "sites": [],
  "excludeSites": [],
  "includeKeywords": [],
  "excludeKeywords": [],
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 100,
  "resolveUrls": true,
  "fetchFullText": false,
  "maxTextChars": 20000,
  "onlyNew": false,
  "monitorKey": "default",
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 regulation",
        "electric vehicles"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tiger19935/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 regulation",
        "electric vehicles",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tiger19935/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 regulation",
    "electric vehicles"
  ]
}' |
apify call tiger19935/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tiger19935/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/952B5RakVJugtf7IB/builds/AmXJW9qlGVYIPGuWS/openapi.json