Google News Scraper MCP Server

Google News Scraper & API: articles, sources and dates

Google News Scraper is an Apify Actor that returns Google News results for any topic, company or keyword: headline, source, publish date, snippet and the article URL, with time filters (past hour to past year), sort by date and any country and language, up to 300 articles per search, at $1 per 1,000 articles.

Price: $1 per 1,000 articles ($0.80 on Gold and above) · Run it: https://apify.com/automationnation/google-news-scraper · Guide: https://retracn.github.io/automationnation-actors/google-news-scraper/

Quick facts

• One row per article: headline, snippet, source, publish time (ISO) and the publisher's article URL.
• Time filters: past hour, day, week, month or year; sort by relevance or date.
• Any country and language, up to 300 articles per search.
• Monitoring: with Only new results on, a scheduled run returns only articles earlier runs didn't (a Google Alerts feed you can use in code). Guide: https://retracn.github.io/automationnation-actors/guides/google-alerts-api/
• Price: $1 per 1,000 articles; the free $5 monthly credit covers 5,000 articles.

Example input

{
  "queries": [
    "apple earnings"
  ],
  "time": "week",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
}

Run it from code

REST API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automationnation~google-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["apple earnings"], "time": "week", "maxResultsPerQuery": 30}'

Python — see examples/python_example.py

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("automationnation/google-news-scraper").call(run_input={
  "queries": [
    "apple earnings"
  ],
  "time": "week",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item.get("title"), item.get("source"), item.get("publishedAt"), item.get("url"))

JavaScript — see examples/node_example.mjs

// npm install apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('automationnation/google-news-scraper').call({
  "queries": [
    "apple earnings"
  ],
  "time": "week",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 30
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) console.log(item.title, item.source, item.publishedAt, item.url);

Use it with AI agents (MCP)

Hosted MCP server URL (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other clients with remote MCP support):

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automationnation/google-news-scraper

Local config for Claude Desktop / Cursor — mcp/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "google-news-scraper": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
        "--tools",
        "automationnation/google-news-scraper"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

FAQ

Is there an official Google News API? No. Google retired the Google News API years ago. Google News Scraper on Apify returns Google News results as data through Apify's API, clients and MCP.

Do I get the full article text? You get the headline, snippet, source, date and URL; pass the URLs to a content crawler for full text.

Is there a Google Alerts API? No. Google Alerts arrive by email or RSS only. Schedule this Actor with Only new results on to get each new article about your query as JSON, Slack, Sheets or a webhook.

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This repository holds usage examples. The scraper itself runs on the Apify platform; you need a free Apify account and API token. Examples are MIT licensed.