# Google News Scraper — Articles by Keyword or Topic (`hichemdev/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Monitor Google News: scrape articles by keyword, topic, or publisher — title, source, publish date, link and snippet. Great for brand and competitor monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/hichemdev/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Hichem Ben Moussa](https://apify.com/hichemdev) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 📰 Google News Scraper — Articles by Keyword or Topic

**Monitor the news without an API key — scrape Google News for any keyword, brand, or topic and get headlines, sources, publish dates, links, and snippets as clean structured data.**

Fast, reliable, and cheap: it reads Google News' own public feeds, so there's nothing to break and no proxy required.

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### ✨ What you get for every article

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| **title** | "Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order" |
| **source** | Reuters |
| **publishedAt** | 2026-07-17T02:34:00.000Z |
| **snippet** | short description |
| **url** | link to the article |
| **query / language / country** | what produced the result |

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### 🎯 Who it's for

- **Brand & PR monitoring** — track every mention of your company or product.
- **Competitor intelligence** — watch what's being written about rivals.
- **Market & trend research** — follow a topic across hundreds of publishers.
- **Newsletters & dashboards** — power a daily digest from structured data.
- **AI / sentiment analysis** — feed clean headlines into an LLM.

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### 🚀 How to use it

1. Add **search queries** (e.g. `artificial intelligence`, `"your brand name"`), and/or pick **topics** (Business, Technology, Sports…).
2. Set **max articles**, plus **language** and **country** for the edition you want.
3. Click **Start** and export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets.

**Tip:** schedule it daily and pipe results into Slack or a spreadsheet for an automatic media-monitoring feed.

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### 📥 Example input

```json
{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "\"Acme Corp\""],
  "topics": ["TECHNOLOGY"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}
```

Google News search operators work too — e.g. `tesla when:7d`, `site:reuters.com AI`.

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### 📤 Example output

```json
{
  "title": "Xi pitches China as leader of new global AI order",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-17T02:34:00.000Z",
  "publishedAtText": "Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:34:00 GMT",
  "snippet": "China's president used the summit to...",
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}
```

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### ❓ FAQ

**Do I need an API key or proxy?**
Neither. It reads Google News' public feeds — no key, no quota, and no proxy needed for normal use.

**Can I monitor a specific publisher?**
Yes — use a search operator like `site:reuters.com climate`.

**How fresh are the results?**
As fresh as Google News itself — typically minutes old.

**Which languages and countries work?**
Any Google News edition — set `language` (e.g. `en`, `fr`, `de`) and `country` (e.g. `US`, `GB`, `FR`).

**Is this legal?**
It reads publicly available news feeds. You're responsible for how you use and republish the content.

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### 🗺️ Roadmap

- Resolve publisher URLs behind Google's redirect links
- Full article text extraction (pair with the Website Content Crawler)
- Date-range filtering
- Deduplication across queries

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*Built and maintained by [hichemdev](https://apify.com/hichemdev). Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab.*

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords, brands, or phrases to monitor, e.g. "electric vehicles" or "Apify". Google News search operators work too.

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Google News topic sections to pull headlines from instead of a keyword search.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of articles to collect per query or topic.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code for results, e.g. en, fr, de, es.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Country code for the news edition, e.g. US, GB, FR, DE.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Google News RSS is public, so no proxy is needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "maxItems": 15,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ],
    "topics": [],
    "maxItems": 15,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("hichemdev/google-news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "queries": ["artificial intelligence"],
    "topics": [],
    "maxItems": 15,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("hichemdev/google-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "topics": [],
  "maxItems": 15,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "US"
}' |
apify call hichemdev/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,hichemdev/google-news-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Bp6FPrbeeYTanNILN/builds/jb6GiGuJSm15SEv46/openapi.json