Brand and crisis
Detect coverage spikes and retain links for human review.
Monitor Google News by topic, country and date
Turn news results into a dataset with title, source, date and URL for tracking brands, competitors, industries or crises without manually repeating searches.
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Direct answer
How do you build a Google News monitoring dataset?
Write a query with quotes, OR, intitle: or exclusions; choose language and region, set a range such as 7d and define maxItems. Google News Scraper returns a Dataset you can deduplicate, classify and send to an alerting workflow.
Enable fetchArticleDetails only when you need final article URLs and images: it makes additional requests and increases runtime and usage.
- Actor
lhotanova/google-news-scraper- Input
- Query or topic, region and period
- Output
- Title, source, date, URL and optional image
- Checked
- July 24, 2026
Actor used
Google News Scraper
Built by Lukáš Hotvaň. It has strong historical adoption and detailed controls, although its listing showed an update roughly a year ago and slower issue response than other Actors reviewed.
Check the official listing4.6 / 513 reviews
3.1Ktotal users
43monthly users
79bookmarks
Public listing signals observed July 24, 2026; they can change.
Copy-ready setup
Track two companies for seven days
{
"query": "\"OpenAI\" OR \"Anthropic\"",
"language": "US:en",
"maxItems": 100,
"openEndedDateRange": "7d",
"fetchArticleDetails": true,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": true
}
}- 01
Define entities and exclusions
Use quotes for exact names and
-wordto remove known noise. - 02
Choose market and time
languagecombines region and language; an open range overridesdateFromanddateTo. - 03
Validate 100 results
Measure duplicates, irrelevant sources and coverage before scheduling runs.
- 04
Preserve evidence
Store title, source, date and URL; verify the original article before citing it.
Auditable dataset
Fields that turn news into signals
| Field | Use | Check |
|---|---|---|
title | Classify themes and tone | Do not infer the article from its headline |
source | Measure outlet diversity | Normalize variants of the same brand |
publishedAt | Build timelines | Verify the date on the article |
loadedUrl | Audit the final source | Requires article details |
image | Visual reference | Do not reuse without rights |
Cost
Fixed subscription plus platform usage
The Actor does not advertise a fixed per-article rate; actual usage depends on work performed by each run.
| Component | Published cost | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | 7 days | Evaluate output and usage before subscribing |
| Actor subscription | $20 / month | Access to the Actor |
| Apify usage | Variable | Compute, proxy and requests used by each run |
Reduce usage with smaller limits, shorter periods and fetchArticleDetails: false when RSS links are sufficient. Check current pricing before subscribing.
Added value
Problems it helps solve
Competitors
Track announcements, launches and partnerships with reproducible queries.
Industry intelligence
Compare topics and sources by market without equating volume with impact.
FAQ
Before you automate
Can I use topics without a query?
Yes. The Actor supports categories such as Business, Technology or Health and hashed topics. Queries and topics run as separate searches.
Why are final URLs or images missing?
Those fields depend on fetchArticleDetails and metadata available from each publisher.
Can I republish the articles?
Not automatically. The dataset helps discover and organize sources; follow copyright rules and link to original content.
Seven-day trial
Validate one query with 100 stories
Measure relevance, duplicates and usage before scheduling monitoring.