Google News Scraper

How to use it: 3 steps

1. Make a free Apify accountApify is the cloud platform where our tools run. The free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. You pay Apify, not us.
2. Paste your input and press StartNo code needed: you fill in a form (the input). It already has a working example. For example: apify in Search queries. Each start is one run.
3. Download the resultsWhen the run ends, the results are in a table (the dataset). Open Output, press Export and pick Excel or CSV. JSON and the API are there too.

This tool is an Apify Actor: a small program that runs on Apify. You can also run it on a schedule, for example every Monday. New to it? Read how it works, step by step and the 8 words you need first.

What it does

Google News Scraper searches Google News by keyword, topic or Top stories and returns one row per article: title, publisher, publish date and the real article URL on the publisher's site, not the Google News redirect. It reads the public Google News RSS feeds, so you need no Google login and no API key. A run with the default input (apify, 20 articles) usually takes 5–20 seconds and costs about $0.075.

• You add keywords, topics or both, and choose a language and a country (a Google News "edition").
• The Actor reads the matching Google News RSS feeds: search, topic sections or the Top stories front page.
• For each article it decodes the Google News link (news.google.com/rss/articles/…) into the original publisher URL.
• It saves one Dataset row per article. Topic and Top stories rows also list other outlets that cover the same story (relatedArticles).
• Google returns at most 100 articles per feed. When you ask for more, the Actor searches one day at a time (Google's after: and before: operators) and removes duplicates.

Who uses it

Price

Pay per event: you pay for each result the tool saves, plus a small start fee for each run. The price includes Apify platform costs. Apify bills you, not us. Prices below are for the Apify free plan.

Examples

• One result: about $0.0061.
• 1,000 results: about $3.60.
• Every day 100 results, for 30 days: about $10.88 a month.

Free to try: the Apify free plan gives you $5 of usage every month, no credit card needed. That is enough for about 1,300 results.

Prices checked on 24 October 2026. See the current price on Apify.

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For developers

Sample result

One result from a real test run, in JSON. Real values change from run to run. In Excel or CSV each field is a column.

{
  "status": "complete",
  "statusReason": null,
  "errorCode": null,
  "feedType": "topic",
  "query": null,
  "topic": "BUSINESS",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Waren bei Galeria in Regensburg plötzlich hinter Absperrband – Ein Hersteller spricht Klartext",
  "sourceName": "Mittelbayerische Zeitung",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.mittelbayerische.de/",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.mittelbayerische.de/lokales/stadt-regensburg/waren-bei-galeria-in-regensburg-ploetzlich-hinter-absperrband-ein-hersteller-spricht-klartext-22206179",
  "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi8AFBVV95cUxPWnVHaWd…?oc=5",
  "articleId": "CBMi8AFBVV95cUxPWnVHaWd…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T17:01:36.000Z",
  "relatedArticles": [
    {
      "title": "Flatterband im Kaufhaus: Was hinter den gesperrten Galeria-Regalen steckt",
      "sourceName": "WDR",
      "googleNewsUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMifkFVX3lx…?oc=5"
    }
  ],
  "language": "de",
  "country": "DE",
  "feedUrl": "https://news.google.com/rss/headlines/section/topic/BUSINESS?hl=de&gl=DE&ceid=DE%3Ade",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-15T04:22:36.577Z"
}

Use it from code

Actor ID: cliqtomedia/google-news-scraper. You need your Apify API token from Apify Console → Settings → API & Integrations.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("cliqtomedia/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": [
        "apify"
    ],
    "country": "US"
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cliqtomedia~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["apify"], "country": "US"}'

# pip install langchain-apify
# set APIFY_TOKEN in your environment
from langchain_apify import ApifyActorsTool

tool = ApifyActorsTool("cliqtomedia/google-news-scraper")
result = tool.invoke({"run_input": {"queries": ["apify"], "country": "US"}})
print(result)

The cURL call waits for the results, up to 300 seconds. For longer runs, start a run (/runs) and get the results with a webhook or by checking the run. Apify API docs. LlamaIndex, MCP for AI agents and the JavaScript client: AI agents & MCP.

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