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Google News API Scraper – RSS, Real URLs, News Monitoring

Search Google News by keyword, topic or publisher and get articles with the headline (raw and with the " - Publisher" suffix stripped), source name and domain, date, feed rank and the resolved publisher URL — plus related coverage of the same story and optional full article text, author, image and keywords. Any language or country.

Supports Google News operators such as "exact phrase", site:reuters.com, when:7d and before:2026-01-01. Up to 100 articles per query. Google's encoded redirect links are resolved to the publisher's real URL. Also browse built-in sections (World, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Science, Sports, Health) with the topics field — no RSS URL needed. Restrict to a date window with timePeriod (1h … 1y) or publishedAfter/publishedBefore (YYYY-MM-DD) — Google applies the filter, so you are not charged for articles outside the window. siteFilter/excludeSites restrict or exclude publisher domains across every query with no extra requests. Optional extractTickers pulls stock tickers (e.g. $TSLA, NASDAQ:AAPL, “Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)”) into a tickers array, free.

Run it

curl -X POST https://fetchsmith.com/api/v1/run/google-news-scraper \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"country": "US", "decodeUrls": true, "language": "en-US", "maxItemsPerQuery": 50, "max_results": 50, "queries": ["electric vehicles"]}'

Output fields

title titleClean googleNewsUrl guid publishedAt source sourceUrl sourceDomain snippet relatedArticles url articleBody articleBodyTruncated articleWordCount articleDeclaredWordCount articleBodyComplete articleBodyIncompleteReason articleBodySource articleAuthor articleImage articleKeywords articleSection articleDescription articlePublishedAt articleModifiedAt articleFetchStatus position query topic feedUrl language country scrapedAt tickers

Sample output

{
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-02T07:00:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "Apify raises new funding",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "title": "Apify raises new funding - TechCrunch",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/apify-funding/"
}

Guides

Google News RSS's <description> field carries no article summary — here's what's actually in it — The <description> element in Google News's RSS feed looks like it should hold a summary. On 103/103 measured items it was just the headline again. Here's what it really contains, and where a real summary comes from.
We tested "JSON-LD only" article extraction against 8 real news sites. It got 0. — Zero of eight major publishers populate articleBody in their JSON-LD. Here's what actually works for extracting full article text, and the container-selection bug that costs you half your results.
Google News RSS gives you encoded redirect links — here's how to resolve them — Google News RSS items link to an encoded redirect token, not the publisher. Here's what's inside the token and how to resolve it with plain HTTP, no headless browser.

Only publicly accessible pages are read. Respect the source site's terms when using the data.