How to Scrape Google News — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Google News data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Google News Scraper - Articles by Keyword, Real URLs, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Google News login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

title
source
publishedAt
originalUrl
description
thumbnailUrl
query
sourceDomain

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/google-news-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install apify-google-news-scraper

const scrape = require("apify-google-news-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install google-news-scraper

from google_news_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`queries`	array	Search keywords / topics to monitor
`topic`	string	Topic category (optional, instead of queries)
`geoLocation`	string	Location-based news (optional)
`topHeadlines`	boolean	Or get top headlines (overrides everything)
`language`	string	Language
`country`	string	Country / region
`maxArticles`	integer	Max articles per query/feed
`timeWindow`	string	Time window
`fromDate`	string	From date (ISO 8601, optional)
`toDate`	string	To date (ISO 8601, optional)
`includeSources`	array	Include only these sources (optional)
`excludeSources`	array	Exclude these sources (optional)

Common use cases

Build a fresh Google News dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Google News records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Google News data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.