Google News Scraper — Multi-keyword, Sentiment, Full Text

What does Google News Scraper do?

Google News Scraper is an Apify Actor that extracts news articles from Google News for any keyword, brand, or topic — structured and ready for analysis. It acts as a news articles extractor and a Google News data API, returning title, source URL, publication date, and optional headline sentiment for each result. No API key is needed; it runs on demand or on a schedule and delivers clean JSON output.

Run it with a list of keywords and get up to 200 articles per query, filtered by language, region, and recency — in seconds.

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Why use Google News Scraper?

• Brand and PR monitoring — track every press mention of your company, product, or executives across global news outlets in real time.
• Competitor intelligence — monitor competitor announcements, product launches, and earnings coverage to stay ahead of market moves.
• Crypto and financial research — aggregate breaking news on tokens, ETFs, regulatory decisions, and macro events for trading signals and reports.
• Content marketing and SEO — discover trending topics and high-traffic keywords in your niche to fuel editorial calendars and link-building campaigns.
• Academic and media research — collect structured Google News data across languages and regions for large-scale media analysis without scraping bans or CAPTCHAs.

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How to use Google News Scraper

1. Open the Actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Set queries to your list of keywords (e.g. ["bitcoin", "OpenAI regulation"]).
3. Choose language and country for regional news editions.
4. Set maxArticlesPerQuery (default 100, up to 200).
5. Enable includeSentiment for positive/negative/neutral headline scoring.
6. Enable extractFullText to pull full article body from the source page.
7. Click Start — results appear in the dataset in seconds.
8. Export as JSON, CSV, or connect via the Google News scraper API endpoint.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	required	List of keywords or topics to search — each returns up to 200 articles
language	string	en	Language code: en, ko, ja, de, fr, es, pt, etc.
country	string	US	Country code: US, KR, JP, GB, DE, FR, etc.
maxArticlesPerQuery	integer	100	Max articles per keyword (1–200)
deduplicateAcrossQueries	boolean	true	Remove duplicate URLs when queries overlap
includeSentiment	boolean	false	Add positive / negative / neutral label + confidence score
extractFullText	boolean	false	Fetch full article body from source URL (slower)
minPublishedHoursAgo	integer	0	Only return articles published within the last N hours (0 = no filter)
limit	integer	0	Hard cap on total articles across all queries (0 = no cap)

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Output

Sample Google News data records from a single run:

[
  {
    "query": "bitcoin",
    "title": "Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Amid ETF Inflows",
    "source": "Reuters",
    "url": "https://reuters.com/markets/currencies/bitcoin-surges-2026-09-01/",
    "description": "Bitcoin surged past $100,000 on Monday as spot ETF net inflows hit a monthly record...",
    "published_at": "2026-09-01T09:15:00Z",
    "hours_ago": 2.5,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
    "sentiment": { "label": "positive", "score": 0.72 },
    "full_text": "Bitcoin surged past $100,000 on Monday as spot ETF net inflows hit a monthly record of $4.2B..."
  },
  {
    "query": "OpenAI regulation",
    "title": "EU Finalizes AI Act Enforcement Rules Targeting Foundation Models",
    "source": "Financial Times",
    "url": "https://ft.com/content/ai-act-enforcement-2026",
    "description": "European regulators published binding enforcement guidelines for large AI models...",
    "published_at": "2026-09-01T07:30:00Z",
    "hours_ago": 4.2,
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
    "sentiment": { "label": "neutral", "score": 0.55 },
    "full_text": null
  }
]

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Data fields

Field	Type	Description
query	string	The keyword that produced this article
title	string	Article headline
source	string	Publication name (e.g. Reuters, Bloomberg)
url	string	Direct link to the original article
description	string	Google News snippet / excerpt
published_at	string	ISO 8601 publication timestamp
hours_ago	number	Hours elapsed since publication
language	string	Language code of the result
country	string	Country edition code
sentiment.label	string	positive, negative, or neutral (when enabled)
sentiment.score	number	Confidence score 0–1 (when enabled)
full_text	string	Full article body (when extractFullText is true)

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Cost estimation

Pricing is Pay-Per-Event at $0.001 per article scraped (first 20 articles per run are free).

Run scenario	Articles	Estimated cost
Single keyword, 20 articles	20	Free
Single keyword, 100 articles	100	~$0.08
3 keywords x 100 articles	300	~$0.28
5 keywords x 100 articles	500	~$0.48
Daily monitoring, 5 keywords	~500/day	~$0.48/day

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FAQ

Does this Google News scraper API require a Google API key? No. The Actor is powered by Google News RSS feeds, which are public. No API key, no quota, no billing with Google.

How is this different from a paid News API? Commercial news APIs charge $150-$500/month for similar volume. This news articles extractor costs a fraction of that — $0.001 per article — with no subscription lock-in. You only pay for what you use.

Can I run this on a schedule for continuous monitoring? Yes. Use Apify's built-in scheduler to run the Actor daily, hourly, or at any interval. Results accumulate in the dataset so you can track coverage over time.

Disclaimer: This Actor collects publicly available data from Google News RSS feeds for research, monitoring, and automation purposes. Users are responsible for complying with Google's Terms of Service and applicable laws. Do not use for unauthorized commercial redistribution of copyrighted content.

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Keywords: Google News scraper API, news articles extractor, Google News data, news aggregator, RSS alternative, media monitoring, sentiment analysis, keyword news tracker

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