Google News scrapers on Apify compared (2026): price, run success and features
Google retired its News API years ago, so Google News data comes from scrapers or RSS. These are the most-used Google News Actors on Apify Store.
Disclosure: AutomationNation builds one of the Actors below (google-news-scraper). The other rows use the same public data and the same rules. Corrections are welcome as a GitHub issue.
| Actor | Price (Free plan) | Lowest paid-plan price | Start / run fee | Users (30 days) | Rating | Run success (30 days) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data_xplorer/google-news-scraper-fast | $4 per 1,000 results | $1 per 1,000 results | — | 575 | 4.90 (5) | 99.4% | Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event) |
| easyapi/google-news-scraper | $5 per 1,000 results | — | $0.09 | 238 | 4.26 (10) | 95.0% | Google News Scraper |
| automation-lab/google-news-scraper | $2.30 per 1,000 articles scraped (+ 1 more event) | $0.56 per 1,000 articles scraped | — | 157 | — | 99.8% | Google News Scraper |
| crawlerbros/google-news-scraper | $2 per 1,000 results | $1 per 1,000 results | $0.005 | 107 | 5.00 (2) | 97.1% | Google News Scraper |
| memo23/google-news-scraper | $2.50 per 1,000 results (+ 2 more events) | — | $0.05 | 52 | 5.00 (3) | 90.9% | Google News Scraper · Full Article Bodies + Entities |
| s-r/google-news | $4 per 1,000 results | — | $0.01 | 27 | — | 100.0% | News API by Keyword, Country & Language |
| solidcode/google-news-scraper | $1.50 per 1,000 results (+ 1 more event) | $0.90 per 1,000 results | $0.0001 | 25 | 5.00 (1) | 100.0% | Google News Scraper |
| andok/google-news-scraper | $1 per 1,000 articles found | $0.14 per 1,000 articles found | $0.01 | 21 | — | 99.9% | Google News Scraper for Monitoring & Alerts |
| automationnation/google-news-scraper | $1 per 1,000 articles | $0.80 per 1,000 | $0.00005 | 1 | — | new | Headline, snippet, source, publish time and the publisher's URL; past hour to past year, sort by date, any country and language; up to 300 per search. |
Users, ratings and 30-day run success come from Apify Store's public statistics; success is shown for Actors with at least 10 runs. Prices are each Actor's Free-plan list price for its main event, with the lowest paid-plan price where one exists; other events are counted, not priced. Checked 5 October 2026.
How to choose
- Most used: data_xplorer/google-news-scraper-fast (575 users in 30 days, 99.4% of runs succeeding).
- Most reliable of the top Actors: s-r/google-news (100.0% of runs succeeding in the last 30 days).
- AutomationNation: google-news-scraper charges $1 per 1,000 articles, resolves Google's redirect links to the publisher's URL and filters by time.
FAQ
Do these return full article text?
Most return headline, snippet, source, date and URL; pair them with a content crawler for full text.
How fresh is the data?
Live Google News results at run time; use a past-hour filter and a schedule for monitoring.