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A week of Nvidia news, past the 100-article limit

A Google News search stops at about 100 articles. That's fine for a quick look, but not if you want everything the press wrote about a company in one week. A big name like Nvidia gets more than 100 articles in a single day, so a week-long search quietly leaves most of them out.

I built CleanScrape's Google News Scraper API partly for this. I'm the developer, so this is a walkthrough of my own tool, not an independent review. An AI agent wrote this walkthrough from my run, and every number in it was checked against that run.

One search per day

The fix is simple: instead of one search for the whole week, run one search for each day and combine the results. The Actor does that when you turn on Search each day separately.

For the example I typed Nvidia, picked September 21 to 27, 2026, and set Maximum articles to 300. You don't need a Google account or an API key. You do need an Apify account to run the Actor. The same input as JSON:

{
  "queries": ["Nvidia"],
  "edition": "US:en",
  "startDate": "2026-09-21",
  "endDate": "2026-09-27",
  "splitByDay": true,
  "maxArticles": 300
}
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That run returned 276 articles instead of about 100, each with the headline, the publisher, the publish time and a link.

What the week looked like

Counted by publish day (in UTC), Friday was the busiest, with 64 articles. By publisher, Yahoo Finance alone ran 73 of the 276.

One honest caveat: each day's search also returned Google's maximum of 100 entries, so the run report marks those days as possibly incomplete. More articles may exist. Splitting by day gets you much closer to the full picture, but for a name this busy it isn't a guarantee of every article.

Publisher links

Google News links point back to Google, not to the article. Where it can, the Actor turns them into the publisher's own link, and a link status column tells you which ones it found. In this run, 85 links were turned into the publisher's page and 191 kept the Google News link, because Google limits how many links can be looked up in a row. The Google link still opens the article; it just takes one extra hop.

Follow the topic after the first run

To keep up with a topic without getting the same headlines again, turn on Only articles not saved before and give it a Watch name. Later runs with the same watch name return only articles that weren't delivered before. Save the input as a task and schedule it daily or weekly.

{
  "queries": ["Nvidia"],
  "timeRange": "day",
  "newOnly": true,
  "watchName": "Nvidia news"
}
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I wrote more about that setup in a small news watchlist that doesn't send the same headlines every day.

Export and cost

Export the Articles view as CSV or Excel. The run report shows what every search returned, including which days hit Google's limit.

The price is $0.95 per 1,000 saved articles, with no start fee and platform usage included. The 276 articles above cost about $0.26 at base prices. Check the Pricing tab for your account's rate, and set a spending limit before larger runs.

Questions or a reproducible problem: use the Actor's Issues tab or email contact.cleanscrape@gmail.com. CleanScrape is independent of Google and Apify, and Nvidia is used here as a public-news example, not an endorsement.

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