Google News Scraper

Extract news articles, headlines, publication sources, and trending stories from Google News. Built on spider-browser .

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target
news.google.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

google-news-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqJggKIiBDQkFTRWdvSUwyMHZNRFZxYUdjU0FtVnVHZ0pWVXlnQVAB");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const articles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("article").forEach(el => {
    const headline = el.querySelector("h3 a, h4 a, a[href*='./articles/']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const source = el.querySelector("a[data-n-tid]")?.textContent?.trim()
      || el.querySelector("time")?.closest("div")?.querySelector("a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const time = el.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
    if (headline) articles.push({ headline, source, time });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: articles.length, articles: articles.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();