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Q: How do I get Google News results as JSON by API?

Use the Google News API Actor with your keywords, a country and a language. It reads Google News' official public RSS feeds and returns one row per article: headline, publisher, publication date (ISO UTC), snippet and link. Limit results to recent articles with `timeRange`. No API key.

Q: Which countries are supported?

Any Google News edition: set `country` and `language`, e.g. FR + fr.

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Google News API — Headlines by Keyword, Country and Date, JSON

How do I get Google News results as JSON by API?

Use the Google News API Actor with your keywords, a country and a language. It reads Google News’ official public RSS feeds and returns one row per article: headline, publisher, publication date (ISO UTC), snippet and link. Limit results to recent articles with timeRange. No API key.

Try it: Google News API on Apify — click Try for free, the input is prefilled.

Step by step

Open Google News API and click Try for free (an Apify account is free).
Paste this input (or fill the form):

{
  "queries": [
    "openai",
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

Click Start. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them from the API.

From Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("om_kh/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": [
        "openai",
        "electric vehicles"
    ],
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en"
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

With one HTTP call (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/om_kh~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["openai", "electric vehicles"], "country": "US", "language": "en"}'

What you get

title
url
author (publisher)
text (snippet)
published_at
query_id

Price

Pay per article — see the Pricing tab for the current price. You only pay for results delivered; set maxTotalChargeUsd to cap a run.

Use cases

Brand and competitor news monitoring
News feeds for newsletters and dashboards
Context for AI agents answering current-events questions

From an AI agent (MCP)

Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to https://mcp.apify.com and add om_kh/google-news-scraper as a tool. The agent sends the same JSON input and gets the rows back.

FAQ

Which countries are supported?
Any Google News edition: set country and language, e.g. FR + fr.

Can I get only new articles on a schedule?
Yes, turn on monitoring; later runs return only new articles.