Google News Scraper: Articles, Real URLs & Full Text

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or top headlines, in any country and language. Each article includes the headline, publisher, publish time, the real publisher URL (decoded from Google's redirect links) and, optionally, the full article text, author and image, ready for monitoring, analytics and AI pipelines.

Why this scraper

• Real article URLs. Google News RSS links point to news.google.com/rss/articles/… redirects; this actor resolves them to the publisher URL (e.g. reuters.com/…), 100% in testing.
• Full article text on demand. Turn on Include full article text to get clean main text with paragraph breaks, plus author, image and description. No second scraper needed.
• Google News operators: exact phrases, OR, exclusions, intitle:; a time range (past hour to past year); and a site filter (e.g. only reuters.com and apnews.com).
• Topics & headlines: World, Business, Technology, Sports, … and top stories for any country edition (US, GB, IN, DE, JP, KR, BR…).
• Related coverage: other outlets' headlines on the same story, as grouped by Google News.
• No browser. Fast HTTP requests.

Input example

{
  "queries": ["openai", "\"electric vehicles\" OR EV -tesla"],
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "sites": ["reuters.com", "apnews.com"],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "includeArticleText": true,
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100
}

Output example

{
  "title": "Fed raises rates in search of 'timelier' drop in inflation, sees more tightening ahead",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-16T10:01:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/business/warshs-words-may-matter-more-than-anticipated-fed-rate-hike-2026-09-16/",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxPd0VZMTZ…",
  "articleText": "Summary\n\nFed lifts benchmark interest rate to 3.75%-4.00% range\n\nNew projections show policy rate in 4.00%-4.25% range by end of 2026 and 2027\n\nTrump repeats his argument that rates should be slashed\n\nWASHINGTON, Sept 16…",
  "wordCount": 1217,
  "author": "Howard Schneider",
  "image": "https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/JTYLPSXGVNNERNE5GEPGSURGX4.jpg?auth=0f311004dccef8406286cc510e840d807feb01deb315da2c1baa2b7321a429f4&height=1005&width=1920&quality=80&smart=true",
  "metaDescription": "The Federal Reserve flagged more hikes in the coming months.",
  "relatedCoverage": [],
  "query": "interest rates",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}

Use cases

• Brand & PR monitoring: every article mentioning your company, product or executives.
• Market & competitor intelligence: news on competitors, industries and deals.
• Finance & trading signals: headlines with timestamps and full text for sentiment models.
• AI & RAG: fresh, clean news text for summaries, newsletters and agents.
• Media research: coverage volume by outlet, topic and country.

Pricing

Pay per article, with URL decoding and full text included, plus a negligible start fee per run.

Monitoring mode

Turn on onlyNewArticles and the Actor remembers the articles it already returned for each query. On the next run you get only articles published since. Articles you already have are skipped before URL decoding and text extraction, so an hourly schedule stays cheap.

Notes

• Google News feeds return up to about 100 articles per query or topic; use several narrower queries or time ranges for more.
• Full text depends on the publisher: paywalled or script-only sites may return a teaser or no text (wordCount: 0).
• If something breaks after a Google change, open an issue and it will be fixed quickly.

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