Google News Scraper with Apify

Search and extract news articles from Google News with full article content, enriched descriptions, and metadata. Supports region and language filtering.

Actor: futurizerush/google-news-scraper

Prerequisites

Set APIFY_API_TOKEN in environment. Get a token at console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Execution Flow

Apify runs are asynchronous. Every request follows 3 steps:

1. Start a run -- POST to the actor API, receive a run ID and dataset ID
2. Poll until done -- GET the run status, wait for SUCCEEDED
3. Fetch results -- GET the dataset items (returns a JSON array)

Typical run time: 30-90 seconds depending on query count and article enrichment.