Google News Scraper

Aggregate news headlines from Google News by keyword, topic section, or the latest top headlines — in any language and country edition. Each article comes back as a clean, structured record: headline, source, publish time, and link (optionally decoded to the real publisher URL).

No account, no login, no API key.

Why use this actor

• No account, no login, no API key — the data is public Google News.
• Search any keyword — a company, person, product, or topic (e.g. "artificial intelligence") — or pull a whole topic section, or the current top headlines.
• Any edition — pick the language and country (US English, UK English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and so on).
• Clean source data — the publication name, its domain, and the exact publish time (as a standard timestamp) for every article.
• Real publisher links (optional) — turn on URL resolving to get the article's true publisher URL instead of the Google redirect link.
• Stable JSON ready for a spreadsheet, database, dashboard, or alerting pipeline. Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel. Runs on Apify's schedule with automatic retries.

How it works

1. You give it a keyword (or pick a topic section, or leave both blank for the latest top headlines) and choose the language/country edition.
2. The actor fetches the matching Google News feed and reads every article in it.
3. For each article it returns the headline, the source, the publish time, and the link.
4. Optionally, it decodes each link to the real publisher URL.

You don't manage any scrapers, browsers, or blocks — just set the inputs and run.

Input

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "topic": "",
  "mode": "latest",
  "language": "en-US",
  "country": "US",
  "ceid": "",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "resolveUrls": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The main input: a news search term (keyword, company, person, topic). Leave blank to use a topic section or the latest headlines instead.
topic	string	A curated section — one of WORLD, NATION, BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS, SCIENCE, HEALTH. Used only when query is blank.
mode	string	What to fetch when both query and topic are blank. latest returns the current top headlines.
language	string	Interface language code, e.g. en-US, en-GB, es-419, fr, de.
country	string	2-letter country/edition code, e.g. US, GB, IN, DE, BR.
ceid	string	Advanced. Google edition code as <COUNTRY>:<lang> (e.g. US:en). Leave blank to derive it automatically from language + country.
maxItems	integer	Max articles to return. Google's feed hard-caps at 100 items per query and does not paginate, so 100 is the ceiling.
resolveUrls	boolean	When on, decodes each article's Google redirect link to the real publisher URL. Slower (extra requests per article) and best-effort — it falls back to the Google link if decoding fails. Off by default.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many links to resolve in parallel (only used when resolveUrls is on).
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional. The feed works without a proxy at low volume; turn one on (ideally non-EU) if you resolve many links at scale.

Output

One record per article. Sample 1 — keyword search, resolveUrls off (real output for query: "artificial intelligence"):

{
  "_input": "artificial intelligence",
  "_source": "S1-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-07-10T12:00:21Z",
  "title": "The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence - Jacobin",
  "cleanTitle": "The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence",
  "sourceName": "Jacobin",
  "sourceUrl": "https://jacobin.com",
  "sourceDomain": "jacobin.com",
  "pubDate": "2026-07-09T14:47:17Z",
  "pubDateRaw": "Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:47:17 GMT",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw?oc=5",
  "guid": "CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw",
  "articleId": "CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw",
  "feedTitle": "\"artificial intelligence\" - Google News"
}

Sample 2 — same query with resolveUrls: true (real output; note resolvedUrl and _resolveStatus):

{
  "_input": "artificial intelligence",
  "_source": "S1-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-07-10T12:00:21Z",
  "title": "The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence - Jacobin",
  "cleanTitle": "The Case for Nationalizing Artificial Intelligence",
  "sourceName": "Jacobin",
  "sourceUrl": "https://jacobin.com",
  "sourceDomain": "jacobin.com",
  "pubDate": "2026-07-09T14:47:17Z",
  "pubDateRaw": "Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:47:17 GMT",
  "link": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw?oc=5",
  "guid": "CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw",
  "articleId": "CBMidEFVX3lxTFBZOG5TTC0tUldnVzlLUkZGU3R0ejdlSXBsODJ3aDRfZUF4N1h6czA1SU1ZNzF2TDFDTFd0R0J3MlZxbmllMDNZU2x2ZWpiR2xaWmhPV2U1WTRpb0FkSTRKZFNnTFMzWjBpTTREZmEta3pXV1lw",
  "feedTitle": "\"artificial intelligence\" - Google News",
  "resolvedUrl": "https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-policy-nationalization-commons-work",
  "_resolveStatus": "ok"
}

More real resolvedUrl values from the same run: Reuters → https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/china-weighs-silicon-curtain-around-sought-after-ai-models-2026-07-08/, U.S. News → https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-07-10/sk-hynix-hits-the-u-s-stock-market-as-demand-for-memory-chips-soars-amid-ai-frenzy.

Field	Type	Description
title	string	The article headline as Google publishes it (ends with " - Source").
cleanTitle	string	The headline with the trailing " - Source" removed.
sourceName	string	The publication name (e.g. "Jacobin", "Reuters").
sourceUrl	string	The publication's home page.
sourceDomain	string	The publication's domain (e.g. reuters.com).
pubDate	string	Publish time as a standard UTC timestamp (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).
pubDateRaw	string	The original publish time string from the feed.
link	string	The Google News link for the article (a Google redirect).
guid	string	The article's stable Google id.
articleId	string	The encoded article id (from the link).
feedTitle	string	The title of the feed the article came from.
resolvedUrl	string	The real publisher URL — present only when resolveUrls is on (else absent; null if a specific article couldn't be decoded).
_resolveStatus	string	ok or failed — present only when resolveUrls is on.

Notes & limits

• Headlines only, by design. Google News gives the headline, source, time, and link — no article body and no thumbnail. Feed the link (or resolvedUrl) into an article-text scraper if you need the full story.
• 100-article ceiling. A single Google News feed returns at most 100 items and offers no paging, so maxItems tops out at 100. To go wider, run several narrower queries (different keywords, editions, or topics).
• resolveUrls is optional and best-effort. Decoding the real publisher URL costs extra requests per article and depends on a Google mechanism that changes from time to time. It is wrapped so that if a decode fails, the record still comes back with resolvedUrl: null, _resolveStatus: "failed", and a _warning — the run never crashes over it. Leave it off unless you specifically need publisher URLs. Verified working live on 2026-07-10 (Jacobin, Reuters, U.S. News).
• Editions. language + country map to a Google edition; the ceid is derived for you (e.g. en-US + US → US:en). Set ceid directly only if you know the exact edition code you want.
• Consent wall. In some regions Google shows a consent interstitial; the actor sends a standing consent signal to skip it. If you still hit it, enable the proxy with a non-EU region.
• The description field is dropped. Google's RSS description is just a repeated link, not a real article summary, so it isn't included.

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