Google News Scraper — Headlines + Full Article Text

Search terms in, news articles out. Most Google News scrapers give you headlines and a news.google.com redirect link. This one also resolves the real publisher URL and extracts the full, clean article body — so you get ready-to-use text, not just a title.

• Search by query — one or many terms; Google News operators supported (site:, quotes, OR)
• Real article URLs — follows Google's redirect to the actual publisher
• Full article text — clean body extracted with trafilatura, boilerplate stripped
• Fresh only — sinceHours restricts to the last N hours
• Any edition — language + country for localized results
• Honest pricing — one charge per article returned; full text included free when available

Input

{
    "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "site:reuters.com markets"],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 25,
    "sinceHours": 24,
    "fetchArticleText": true,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US"
}

Output (one dataset item per article)

{
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "title": "…",
    "source": "Reuters",
    "published_at": 1755300000,
    "google_news_url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/…",
    "article_url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/…",
    "snippet": "…",
    "text": "Full clean article body…",
    "text_status": "ok",
    "word_count": 812
}

text_status tells you exactly what happened per article: ok, no-content, unresolved-redirect, skipped, or an error tag — no silent gaps.

Pricing

One event: article — charged per article returned. Headline, source, publish time, snippet and the Google News link are always delivered; the resolved URL and full text are added free whenever extraction succeeds.

Typical uses

• Media monitoring — track a brand, person, or topic across outlets
• LLM/RAG pipelines — feed full article text to summarize or answer questions
• Newsletters & briefings — pull the last 24h on a beat with sinceHours: 24
• Datasets — build labeled news corpora by query

Works with AI agents

Exposed via Apify's MCP server — an agent can call "get today's news on in one step.

FAQ

Why do some articles have no text? Some publishers hard-block automated fetches or require JS. Those come back with text_status explaining why — and the headline, source, and link are still delivered. Turn on useApifyProxy to improve success on blocked sites.

How fresh is it? As fresh as Google News. Use sinceHours to bound it.

Bulk / many topics? Pass many queries; each article is one dataset row and one charge.