# Google News Scraper (`leftwinglautus/google-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google News RSS feed for articles matching a search query, with full metadata extraction.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/leftwinglautus/google-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Moeeze Hassan](https://apify.com/leftwinglautus) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 6.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google News Scraper

Scrape the [Google News](https://news.google.com/) RSS feed for articles matching a search query. The actor returns structured article metadata including title, link, publication date, source, and description snippet, with support for country and language localization.

### Features

- Keyword search across Google News
- Country and language localization (e.g. `US`/`en`, `DE`/`de`)
- Full metadata extraction from the RSS feed
- Configurable result limit (up to 100 articles)

### Input Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | ✅ | `""` | Search query for Google News. |
| `maxResults` | integer | ❌ | `30` | Maximum number of articles to return (1–100). |
| `country` | string | ❌ | `US` | Google News country code (e.g. `US`, `GB`, `DE`). |
| `language` | string | ❌ | `en` | Google News language code (e.g. `en`, `de`, `fr`). |

### Output Fields

Each pushed dataset item is an article record with the following fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `title` | string | Article title. |
| `link` | string | Direct URL to the article. |
| `pubDate` | string | Publication date (RFC-822 format, as provided by Google News). |
| `source` | string | Publisher / news source name. |
| `description` | string | Article snippet / description (may contain HTML). |
| `guid` | string | Unique article identifier from the feed. |

### Usage Example

#### Search for "artificial intelligence" news (US English)

```json
{
    "query": "artificial intelligence",
    "maxResults": 30,
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en"
}
```

#### Get the latest 50 tech news articles from the UK

```json
{
    "query": "technology",
    "maxResults": 50,
    "country": "GB",
    "language": "en"
}
```

#### German-language news about "Klimawandel"

```json
{
    "query": "Klimawandel",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "DE",
    "language": "de"
}
```

#### Run via the Apify CLI

```bash
apify run google-news-scraper --input '{"query":"artificial intelligence","maxResults":30}'
```

### Data Source

Articles are fetched from the Google News RSS search endpoint at `https://news.google.com/rss/search` with `hl`, `gl`, and `ceid` locale parameters.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search query for Google News.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of articles to return.

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

Google News country code (e.g. US, GB, DE).

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

Google News language code (e.g. en, de, fr).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "maxResults": 30,
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("leftwinglautus/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 = {}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call leftwinglautus/google-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=leftwinglautus/google-news-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/j3d2TVHzigojSEuSL/builds/hJa2QhphNgZJhyUc5/openapi.json