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Extract fresh news articles from Google News at scale — headlines, publishers, bylines, publication dates, thumbnails, and direct publisher URLs for any topic, keyword, or news section worldwide. Built for analysts, researchers, and teams who need reliable news data without monthly rental fees.

Why This Scraper?

• Every Google News surface in one actor — keyword search, topic sections (Business, Tech, Sports…), publisher feeds, and Full Coverage story pages, all with the same clean output
• Advanced search operators — exact-phrase matching, title-only search, include/exclude specific publishers, and term exclusions — no need to craft Google query strings yourself
• Bypass the 100-article cap by default — the scraper automatically sweeps Google News day-by-day starting from today and moving back in time until your Max results is reached, returning thousands of articles per keyword. Set a custom date range for any historical period, or disable expanded search for a faster single-shot query
• Direct publisher URLs — optional one-click resolution of Google's /read/... redirects into the real publisher links (nytimes.com, bbc.com, reuters.com, …)
• 19 languages, 47 countries — get localized news from the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, India, and more
• Author bylines included — extracted automatically when Google exposes them (~30% of articles)
• Clean, predictable output — 13 typed fields, ISO 8601 timestamps, no base64 image bloat, no emoji-laden enum values
• Pay only for what you get — no monthly rental, transparent per-result pricing

Use Cases

Media Monitoring & PR

• Track brand, product, or executive mentions across global news outlets
• Monitor competitor coverage in near real-time with the "Past hour" or "Past 24 hours" filter
• Build press clip archives by publisher for stakeholder reports

Market & Trend Research

• Measure volume and sentiment around emerging topics, industries, or technologies
• Pull a full year of coverage on a topic with the date-range sweep
• Localize research by country and language for international markets

Financial & Investment Intelligence

• Gather news around public companies, tickers, or macro themes
• Track regulatory, policy, or geopolitical stories by country
• Feed fresh news into sentiment or event-driven trading models

Content & SEO

• Identify trending stories inside a niche or topic section
• Analyze which publishers dominate coverage of a given keyword
• Curate topical newsletters automatically

Academic & Journalistic Research

• Build news corpora for NLP, bias, or misinformation research
• Investigate how a single event was covered by different publishers with Full Coverage pages
• Archive news for longitudinal studies with arbitrary date ranges

Getting Started

Simple Keyword Search

The minimum input — one or more keywords:

{
"keywords":["Artificial Intelligence"],
"maxResults":50
}

Recent News Only

Limit to the past 24 hours and sort newest first:

{
"keywords":["OpenAI","Anthropic"],
"timeFilter":"24h",
"sortBy":"date",
"maxResults":100
}

Advanced Operators — Precise Queries

Match an exact phrase, limit to the article title, and filter by publisher:

{
"keywords":["climate change"],
"exactPhrase":true,
"inTitleOnly":true,
"sources":["BBC","Reuters","The Guardian"],
"excludeTerms":["opinion"],
"timeFilter":"week",
"maxResults":100
}

Historical Sweep — Beyond the 100-Article Cap

Set a custom date range to pull thousands of articles by automatically splitting the range into smaller windows:

{
"keywords":["Federal Reserve"],
"dateFrom":"2024-01-01",
"dateTo":"2024-12-31",
"maxResults":0,
"sortBy":"date"
}

Topic Sections, Publisher Feeds, and Story Pages

Paste any Google News URL — topic, publisher, or Full Coverage page:

{
"startUrls":[
"https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRGRqTVhZU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB",
"https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMKbdrQww0L-7Aw",
"https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2lnODRLd0NoRC1sTU9qQmlnQVAB"
],
"maxResults":100
}

Direct Publisher URLs

Resolve Google's /read/... redirects into the real publisher links:

{
"keywords":["SpaceX launch"],
"timeFilter":"week",
"resolvePublisherUrls":true,
"maxResults":25
}

Localized News — Any Language, Any Country

Get news for France, in French:

{
"keywords":["élection"],
"language":"fr",
"country":"FR",
"timeFilter":"week",
"maxResults":50
}

Input Reference

Search

URL Mode

Either keywords or startUrls must be provided. Both can be set — keywords are processed first.

Time Filter

Localization

Output Options

Limits

Output

Each record is one article with up to 13 structured fields:

{
"keyword":"Artificial Intelligence",
"sourceUrl":"https://news.google.com/search?q=Artificial+Intelligence+when%3A7d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen",
"title":"OpenAI unveils new reasoning model with major benchmark gains",
"description":null,
"source":"The New York Times",
"author":"Cade Metz",
"url":"https://news.google.com/read/CBMiiAFBVV95cUxPa...",
"publisherUrl":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/technology/openai-reasoning-model.html",
"publishedAt":"2026-04-18T14:32:00Z",
"publishedRelative":"2 days ago",
"imageUrl":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/...",
"storyUrl":"https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2lnODRLd0NoRC1sTU9qQmlnQVAB",
"scrapedAt":"2026-04-20T13:45:12Z"
}

All Available Fields

Tips for Best Results

• Beat the 100-article cap with a date range — any query capped at ~100 results can be expanded into thousands by setting dateFrom and dateTo. The scraper automatically splits the range into smaller windows.
• Use exact-phrase + title-only for precision — combining exactPhrase: true with inTitleOnly: true removes ~90% of noise from broad keyword searches.
• Narrow by publisher with sources — ideal for monitoring a specific outlet's coverage of a topic without scraping their entire site.
• Turn on resolvePublisherUrls selectively — it costs two extra HTTP requests per article. Leave it off for large scans and only enable when direct publisher links matter.
• Match language to country — for best results, pair the market you care about with its primary language (e.g. language: "ja" + country: "JP"). Mismatches can silently return generic results.
• Sort by date for freshness — sortBy: "date" is perfect for newsfeed-style use cases where the newest articles matter most.

Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 articles — no monthly rental, no tiered plans. You pay only for the articles you actually receive.

Optional: resolvePublisherUrls adds $0.50 per 1,000 resolved URLs on top (charged only when a direct publisher URL was successfully recovered). Failed decodes are never charged.

Platform fees (compute, proxy, storage) are additional and depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Get notified when a run completes
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate media monitoring, market research, and journalistic work. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Google's Terms of Service, as well as the terms of the publishers whose articles appear in the results. Respect copyright when redistributing headlines or summaries, and do not use collected data for spam, harassment, or any illegal purpose.