Google News Article scraper alternatives compared
Numbers are from the public Apify Store API on 2026-11-11: price is the first pricing tier per 1,000 results, users and run success cover the last 30 days. Each Actor’s title says which sites it covers.
| Actor | Price / 1k | Users (30d) | Run success |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google News API & Scraper - Headlines by Keyword & Country | $1.00 | new | measured after launch |
| Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event) | $4.00 | 562 | 100% |
| Google News Scraper | $2.00 | 366 | 100% |
| Google News Scraper | $2.30 | 206 | 100% |
| Google News Scraper — Headlines by Keyword | $5.00 | 113 | 98% |
| Google News Scraper · Full Article Bodies + Entities | $2.50 | 49 | 94% |
| Google News Scraper | $1.50 | 24 | 100% |
When to pick which
Section titled “When to pick which”- Need headlines, publishers and publish times for searches or topics, on a schedule and cheaply? This Actor reads the feeds Google News publishes for exactly that.
- Need the full article text or the publisher’s article URL? Use an article extractor on the publishers’ pages: this Actor reads Google News’ feeds only.
About Rocketyard’s Google News API & Scraper
Section titled “About Rocketyard’s Google News API & Scraper”- Price: $1.00 per 1,000 articles plus $0.00005 per run, no subscription.
- Fields: 13 per record, 11 of them filled in at least half of the records in the latest test run. A field the source doesn’t publish comes back as
null, never guessed. - Tested before every release: recorded pages, a run on the Apify platform that checks the output and the cost per result, and a data-quality check on live public pages (latest: news.google.com). A release that fails a check after publishing is rolled back automatically.
Run Google News API & Scraper on Apify$1.00 per 1,000 articles, no subscription.