# Google News Scraper — Real URLs, Full Text & Monitoring (`vladased/google-news-full-text`) Actor

Google News by keyword, topic or date range: real publisher URLs (decoded), source, date, related coverage, optional full article text with author and image. Only-new monitoring. No browser.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/vladased/google-news-full-text.md
- **Developed by:** [obie](https://apify.com/vladased) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 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.
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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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: Real URLs, Full Text & Monitoring

**Search Google News by keyword, topic or date range and get every article with its REAL publisher URL (decoded from Google's
redirect link), source, publish date and related coverage — and optionally the full article text with word count, author and image.**
No browser. **From $2 per 1,000 articles** (Starter plan); full text is an add-on billed only when it was extracted.

### Why this one

| | This Actor | Typical Google News scrapers |
|---|---|---|
| Article links | **Real publisher URLs** (decoded) | `news.google.com` redirect links, or decoding as a paid extra |
| Full text | Optional text + word count + author + image, **billed only when extracted** | Headline and snippet only |
| History | `dateFrom`/`dateTo` searches day by day: up to 100 articles **per day** (5,000 per query) | 100 per search, then nothing |
| Monitoring | **Only new articles**: schedule it, each run delivers just what's new | Re-delivers everything |
| Context | Related coverage (other outlets on the same story) on every row | — |
| Price | From $0.002/article, no start fee | $0.004–0.005/article, some + $0.09 per run |

### Input examples

Latest coverage of a brand, real URLs + full text:

```json
{ "queries": ["nvidia"], "timeframe": "1d", "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100, "includeFullText": true }
```

A month of history, day by day:

```json
{ "queries": ["\"electric vehicles\""], "dateFrom": "2026-09-01", "dateTo": "2026-09-30", "maxArticlesPerQuery": 3000 }
```

Daily brand monitor (schedule it):

```json
{ "queries": ["\"Acme Corp\"", "\"Acme\" lawsuit"], "onlyNewArticles": true, "stateKey": "acme-monitor" }
```

Top stories by section in Germany:

```json
{ "topics": ["BUSINESS", "TECHNOLOGY"], "region": "DE:de" }
```

### Output

One row per article: `title`, `url` (real), `urlDecoded`, `source`, `sourceUrl`, `publishedAt`, `related`, `googleUrl`, `articleId`,
`query`, and with full text: `text`, `wordCount`, `author`, `image`.

### Pricing

| Event | Price (free plan) | When |
|---|---|---|
| Article | $0.0025 | One article row ($0.002 Starter, down to $0.0013) |
| Full text | $0.003 | Only when the article text was extracted ($0.0025 Starter) |

### Good to know

- Public Google News feeds and the publishers' public pages. Some publishers block automated reading; those rows come without text (and without the text fee).
- AI agents can call this Actor through Apify's MCP server and agent payments.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/vladased/google-news-full-text/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords or Google News operators, e.g. 'nvidia', '"electric vehicles" site:reuters.com'.

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

Google News top stories per section.

## `region` (type: `string`):

COUNTRY:language, e.g. US:en, GB:en, DE:de, FR:fr, BR:pt-BR, IN:en.

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

Only articles from this window (ignored when dateFrom is set).

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

YYYY-MM-DD. Searches each day separately, so you get up to 100 articles per day instead of 100 total (up to 5,000 per query).

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

YYYY-MM-DD (default: today).

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

Up to 100 per query (Google's limit per feed); up to 5,000 with a date range.

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

Turn Google's news.google.com redirect links into the real article URL (free).

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Open each article and add its text, word count, author and image. Billed only when the text was extracted (some publishers block it).

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

Schedule it: each run delivers (and bills) only articles it hasn't sent you before.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional: share or separate 'only new' memory between tasks.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "nvidia"
  ],
  "region": "US:en",
  "timeframe": "any",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 50,
  "decodeUrls": true,
  "includeFullText": false,
  "onlyNewArticles": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per article: title, real publisher URL, source, date, optional full text.

# 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": [
        "nvidia"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("vladased/google-news-full-text").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": ["nvidia"] }

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

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/by4ys8kK5wo0Zjbwy/builds/tOwqywWsd3rbEbDJb/openapi.json