# Google News Scraper: Articles, Real URLs & Full Text (`tindacloud/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News by keyword, topic or top headlines in any country and language. Get title, publisher, publish time, the real article URL (decoded from Google links) and optionally the full article text, author and image.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tindacloud/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Seungki Min](https://apify.com/tindacloud) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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.
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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: 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

```json
{
  "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

```json
{
  "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.

### Related Actors

Other scrapers from the same maker, built the same way — no browser where it isn't needed, one flat price per result:

- [YouTube Transcripts](https://apify.com/tindacloud/youtube-transcripts)
- [YouTube Comments Scraper](https://apify.com/tindacloud/youtube-comments-scraper)
- [Threads Scraper](https://apify.com/tindacloud/threads-scraper)
- [Website Contact & Email Scraper](https://apify.com/tindacloud/website-contact-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords, brands, people or Google News operators ("exact phrase", OR, -exclude, intitle:). Each query is one feed.

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

Applies to search queries.

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

Limit search queries to publisher domains, e.g. reuters.com, bbc.co.uk.

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

Google News topic sections (current headlines).

## `topHeadlines` (type: `boolean`):

Add the current top stories for the country. Used automatically if no query or topic is given.

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

Language code, e.g. en, es, de, fr, ja, ko, pt-BR.

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

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

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

Convert Google News redirect links into the publisher's original article URL.

## `includeArticleText` (type: `boolean`):

Download each article and extract the main text, author, image and description. Paywalled sites may return only a teaser. Same price.

## `includeRelatedCoverage` (type: `boolean`):

Other outlets' headlines on the same story, as listed by Google News.

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Google News feeds return up to about 100 articles.

## `onlyNewArticles` (type: `boolean`):

Monitoring mode. Remembers the articles you already pulled for each query and returns only the ones published since. Run it hourly to track a topic — you pay only for new articles.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many articles. You are charged per article.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Apify datacenter proxy works for Google News.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "openai"
  ],
  "timeRange": "any",
  "topHeadlines": false,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "includeArticleText": false,
  "includeRelatedCoverage": true,
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100,
  "onlyNewArticles": false,
  "maxResults": 500,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All articles in a table view.

# 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": [
        "openai"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tindacloud/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": ["openai"] }

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tindacloud/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/y40SFh8C8KL8JuoSR/builds/uY1sKMB0G9Sf7d70v/openapi.json