Google News Scraper

Search any topic on Google News across 18 markets and get every article as data: title, link, source, snippet and the publication time as a real timestamp, even when Google only shows "2 hours ago" or a local date. Filter by the past hour, day, week, month or year.

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ℹ️ Zero configuration Provide a topic and run it: results are ready in seconds.

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Quick Start

{
  "query": "inteligência artificial",
  "country": "br",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Tip: Google News serves about 10 articles per page and every page is one request. Use dateRange to keep only fresh stories, for example past_day for a daily digest.

More examples

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Supported Markets

Country	country	Country	country
Brazil (default)	br	Germany	de
Portugal	pt	Austria	at
United States	us	France	fr
United Kingdom	gb	Spain	es
Canada	ca	Mexico	mx
Australia	au	Argentina	ar
India	in	Colombia	co
Ireland	ie	Chile	cl
Italy	it	Netherlands	nl

The market decides which outlets Google ranks, as a reader in that country would see them.

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Features

Feature	Description
18 Markets	Search the news as a reader in Brazil, the US, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico and more
Real Publication Time	"há 5 horas", "vor 2 Tagen" or "19 de jul. de 2026" become one UTC timestamp you can sort and filter
Date Filter	Keep only articles from the past hour, day, week, month or year
Source and Domain	The outlet name and its domain on every article
Up to 100 Articles	Page through the results, deduplicated and numbered in order

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Use Cases

• Media Monitoring: Track every story about your brand, your competitors or your market
• PR Measurement: See which outlets picked up an announcement, and when
• Market Research: Follow a topic across countries and languages over time
• Newsletters and Digests: Collect the day's articles on a topic in one run
• AI Pipelines: Feed fresh, dated headlines into an LLM, a RAG index or an alerting workflow

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
query	string	none	What to look for in the news (required)
country	string	br	Market to search (see the table above)
maxResults	integer	20	Articles to return (1 to 100). About 10 per page, one request per page
dateRange	string	any	any, past_hour, past_day, past_week, past_month or past_year

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Output Example

Each article is a row, followed by a summary row with the totals:

[
  {
    "record_type": "article",
    "query": "inteligência artificial",
    "country": "br",
    "page": 1,
    "position": 1,
    "title": "EUA anunciam acordo no Paraguai para usar energia Itaipu em projeto de IA",
    "url": "https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/eua-anunciam-acordo-no-paraguai-para-usar-energia-itaipu-em-projeto-de-ia/",
    "domain": "www.cnnbrasil.com.br",
    "source": "CNN Brasil",
    "description": "Entendimento entre as companhias Crusoe e Araico foi anunciado...",
    "published_at": "2026-10-21T22:43:00Z",
    "date_text": "há 58 minutos",
    "scraped_at": "2026-10-21T23:41:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "record_type": "summary",
    "query": "inteligência artificial",
    "country": "br",
    "date_range": "any",
    "pages_fetched": 2,
    "articles_found": 19,
    "articles_returned": 19,
    "reference_url": "https://www.google.com/search?q=intelig%C3%AAncia+artificial&hl=pt-br&gl=br&tbm=nws",
    "scraped_at": "2026-10-21T23:41:00.000Z"
  }
]

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Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	article for an article, summary for the totals. The summary row carries no article columns, so sorting by published_at needs no filtering
query	string	The search query
country	string	Market the articles were collected from
page	number	Results page the article came from
position	number	Rank of the article in Google's list, numbered in order across pages
title	string	Headline
url	string	Link to the article on the publisher's site
domain	string	Domain of the publisher
source	string	Name of the outlet as Google shows it
description	string	Snippet Google shows under the headline
published_at	string	Publication time, ISO 8601 in UTC. See the FAQ on how it is read
date_text	string	The date exactly as Google shows it, in the market's language
date_range	string	Date filter used for the search. Summary row
pages_fetched	number	Pages the run requested. Summary row
articles_found	number	Articles found across the pages fetched, after removing repeats. Summary row
articles_returned	number	Article rows pushed (limited by maxResults). Summary row
reference_url	string	Google News URL of the search. Summary row
scraped_at	string	ISO 8601 timestamp (UTC)

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Integrations

Use the API tab on the Actor page to get ready-to-use code examples in Python, JavaScript, and cURL, generated with the correct parameters for immediate integration.

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Example Searches

Market	query	dateRange
Brazil	inteligência artificial	any
United States	Nvidia	past_day
Germany	Elektroautos	past_week

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FAQ

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Support

1. Check the FAQ above for common questions
2. Test with the prefilled example to confirm expected output
3. Contact support through Apify for additional assistance