How to scrape Google News in 2026 (headlines, sources and dates)

Google has no Google News API. With Google News Scraper on Apify you enter a topic or company, pick a time range, click Start, and get every article with headline, source, publish time and URL, for $1 per 1,000 articles.

Open Google News Scraper on Apify $1 per 1,000 articles ($0.80 on Gold and above)

Step by step

  1. Create a free Apify account. Sign up at apify.com. The free plan includes $5 of monthly credit, about 5,000 articles with this Actor, and needs no credit card.
  2. Open Google News Scraper. Go to apify.com/automationnation/google-news-scraper and click Try for free.
  3. Enter topics. Add topics, companies or keywords, plus country and language.
  4. Filter by time. Past hour, day, week, month or year; sort by date for monitoring.
  5. Monitor. Schedule it hourly or daily and push new articles to Slack or a webhook.

Do it from code

Python

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("automationnation/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
  "queries": [
    "apple earnings"
  ],
  "time": "week",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("title"), item.get("source"), item.get("publishedAt"), item.get("url"))

REST API (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automationnation~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["apple earnings"], "time": "week", "maxResultsPerQuery": 30}'

From an AI assistant (MCP)

Add this MCP server URL to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and ask in plain English:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automationnation/google-news-scraper

Alternatives

Other options: NewsAPI and GNews offer news APIs with their own sources and limits; Google News RSS feeds have no filters or sources data. See the side-by-side comparison.

FAQ

Do I get the article text?

Headline, snippet, source, date and URL; use a content crawler for full text.

Written by AutomationNation, the developer of Google News Scraper. Prices checked October 2026.