Submit your queries and get the news results back - headline, the outlet that ran it, an absolute publication date, a link and the article's lead image. Filter to the past hour, day, week, month or year, in any language and any country, and batch up to a thousand queries in a single run.
Same shape as the rest of the search toolkit - a list of queries, a locale, and how far back you want to look.
Every row carries the query that produced it, so a run across a whole watch list still reconciles back to your input.
Seven fields per news result, one row each, every row tagged with the query that surfaced it.
news.google.com rather than the publisher's own address. It resolves when followed, but isn't canonical, so you can't dedupe on it or read a domain from it.title and source rather than summarising the article.7 columns per article - every column above on every plan, including the free tier.
Note there is no ranking-position column. If you need to know the order results came back in, preserve the row order of the export - it isn't recoverable afterwards.
Two columns behave differently from how they read. Neither is a problem once you know; both are awkward if you don't.
link is a redirect. Every URL comes back pointing at news.google.com/rss/articles/… rather than at the outlet. It resolves to the article when followed, but it isn't the canonical address - which means you can't dedupe on it across runs, can't parse a domain out of it, and can't fetch the page without following the hop. Use source for the outlet and resolve the redirect if you need the real URL.
snippet repeats the headline. It isn't a summary. In practice it comes back as the title followed by the outlet name, so it carries almost no information the other columns don't already give you. If you were planning to run sentiment or keyword analysis over a description, this is not that field - the honest answer is that headlines are what this service gives you to analyse.
The good news is the column most likely to cause trouble doesn't: date is an absolute GMT timestamp, so no run-time bookkeeping is needed to keep a dataset datable.
Two settings do most of the work on a news job - the window you search, and the locale you search from.
Language and country are separate settings, as they are on the Google Search Scraper - so you can ask what German-language outlets are saying, or what's being reported in Germany, and they are not the same question. Coverage spans all languages and all countries.
You can also set how many pages to return per query, which is the honest lever on cost: more depth per query means more rows.
A few examples of how teams use news results.
Run your brand, your executives and your product names on a past-day filter and you have a media log without a clipping subscription. Because source and an absolute date come back on every row, you can see not just whether you were covered but which outlets ran it and exactly when.
Re-run the same query on a fixed cadence and the diff shows which outlets picked a story up and in what order. That progression - who ran it first, who followed - is usually more informative than the article count.
Set country and language deliberately and the same query becomes a jurisdiction-specific watch. Useful for regulatory and supply-chain monitoring, where what's reported locally often precedes anything in the English-language press.
No subscription, no minimum, no per-keyword licence. Your first 500 rows are on us - after that, pay-as-you-go.
Every new account, one-time. No credit card required. All scrapers unlocked, full feature set - enough to test a watch list and calibrate depth before scaling.
Roughly $2 per 1,000 results. The pre-flight estimator shows the count and credit cost before a run starts - worth a look here, since queries × pages multiplies quickly.
Volume pricing, SLAs, dedicated workers and bespoke onboarding for large watch lists on a tight cadence. Tell us your numbers and we'll quote.
LIVESCRAPER10 at checkout.News is one of the verticals Google returns. Teams tracking a topic usually watch more than one.
The organic vertical for the same query set - organic listings, ads, shopping results and related questions. Run both and you see what ranks alongside the coverage.
Reputation rarely moves in one channel only. If a story is running, the reviews on your locations often move with it - watch both on the same rhythm.
Short answer: yes for the results page - with one distinction worth drawing about the articles themselves.
A news results page is public. Google shows anyone the headlines, snippets and links for a query, signed in or not. Collecting publicly visible results for media monitoring and research is long-established practice, and as long as the data is publicly available and the process doesn't disrupt the site there are no federal laws prohibiting it.
The distinction: what you get is a headline, a snippet and a link - not the article. Monitoring coverage, counting mentions, analysing which outlets ran what, and reading the snippets are ordinary uses. Republishing an article, or reproducing substantial text from one, is a copyright question between you and the publisher, and the link is there precisely so readers go to the source. We'd rather say that than let the page imply otherwise.
Google's terms also restrict automated access, so this is a terms question as well. We touch nothing behind a login or a paywall, run no third-party trackers on the data layer, and your exports auto-delete after 30 days.
The questions we hear most. Anything else? Talk to us - humans, not bots, write the answers.
query, title, source, date, link, snippet and image - the query that surfaced it, the headline, the outlet that ran it, an absolute GMT publication date, a link, a snippet and the article's lead image. There's no ranking-position column, so preserve the export's row order if result order matters to you.link is a Google redirect - every URL points at news.google.com/rss/articles/… rather than the outlet's own address. It resolves to the article when followed, but it isn't canonical, so you can't dedupe on it between runs or parse a domain out of it. Use source for the outlet, and resolve the redirect if your workflow needs the real URL.500 one-time free rows on every new account - no expiry. After that it's $0.002 per row, pay-as-you-go - no card on file until you say so.
Livescraper's Google Search News Scraper turns a list of queries into news coverage data. You paste the terms you want watched - up to a thousand per run - set the language, country and date range, choose how many pages to return per query, and download the results as CSV, JSON or Excel.
Each row carries seven fields: the query that surfaced the article, the headline, the outlet that ran it, the publication date, a link, a snippet and the article's lead image. Two practical notes matter more than they sound. The date is an absolute GMT timestamp rather than a relative "3 days ago", so an export stays datable indefinitely with no run-time bookkeeping. And the link is a Google redirect pointing at news.google.com rather than the publisher's own address - it resolves when followed, but it is not canonical, so use the source column for the outlet and resolve the redirect if you need the real URL.
The date-range filter is what turns this from a search into a monitor. Past hour and past day keep runs small and results genuinely new, which is what makes a daily brand watch practical. Language and country are separate settings, so asking what German-language outlets are saying is a different query from asking what's being reported in Germany - useful for regulatory and supply-chain monitoring, where local reporting frequently precedes the English-language press.
Comms teams run brand, executive and product terms on a past-day filter and get a media log without a clipping subscription, with the source column showing which outlets ran each story. Competitive teams re-run a query on a cadence and read the diff to see who picked a story up and when, which the absolute dates make straightforward. What comes back is headlines, outlets, dates, images and links rather than article text - the link is there so readers reach the publisher. Start free: your first 500 rows cost nothing and need no credit card.