Google News Scraper: Articles, Sources and Publish Dates

Scrape news articles from Google News for any search query. Returns clean structured data: article title (without source suffix), publisher name, publisher URL, direct article URL, publish date in RFC 2822 format, and the search query that matched the article. Filter by country and language. HTTP-only Go binary, no browser.

What you can extract

• Article title: cleaned, without the source suffix that Google News appends
• Publisher: source name (Reuters, CNN, TechCrunch, etc.) and publisher_url
• Article URL: direct link to the published article (not the Google News redirect)
• Publish date: RFC 2822 format, ready for parsing into any datetime library
• Search query: the query that matched, useful when running multi-query batches
• Filters: language code (en, de, fr, etc.) and country code for regional results

Primary use cases

• Media monitoring. Track brand mentions, competitor news and industry developments across publishers
• Sentiment analysis. Feed clean headlines into NLP pipelines for market sentiment scoring
• Trend detection. Identify emerging topics before they go mainstream by tracking weekly article counts
• Content aggregation. Build news feeds, executive digests or topic dashboards
• Academic research. Analyze media coverage patterns and news framing across countries
• SEO and AEO research. See which sources rank for your target topics in Google's news ecosystem

API example

# Search Google News for any keyword
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/santamaria-automations~google-news-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence", "climate change"],
    "language": "en",
    "country": "US",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
  }'

# Or use with AI agents via MCP:
# https://mcp.apify.com?tools=santamaria-automations/google-news-scraper

Integrations

• n8n, Make, Zapier: trigger searches and route articles to Slack, email or BI
• AI Agents (MCP): Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex
• Python, Node.js: Apify SDK for programmatic access
• Google Sheets, Airtable, BigQuery: query list in, article records out

Output sample

{
  "title": "OpenAI Announces New GPT Model with Multimodal Capabilities",
  "source": "Reuters",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.reuters.com",
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-announces-new-gpt-model-...",
  "published_at": "Thu, 12 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0000",
  "search_query": "artificial intelligence"
}

Related Actors

• Google Search Scraper: full SERP including organic, ads, PAA and AI Overview
• RSS Feed Reader: complementary RSS/Atom/JSON Feed harvesting
• Wikipedia Scraper: encyclopedic context alongside breaking news