Monitor Google News for your brand, and get the real article URLs instead of redirects

Описание и применение

Решение позволяет непрерывно отслеживать упоминания бренда в Google News, извлекая реальные URL статей из RSS‑каналов и автоматизируя процесс с помощью Apify.

Задача

Google News no longer offers an official API, and its RSS feeds provide only redirect URLs instead of publisher links, limiting brand monitoring and competitor alerts.

Результат

The solution enables continuous brand monitoring by extracting real article URLs from Google News RSS, overcoming redirect limitations and providing a scalable, automated workflow.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Build a free DIY feed using feedparser and a Google News RSS URL.
• 2. Handle redirect URLs by calling Google’s endpoint per article (slow and throttled).
• 3. Use the Apify Google News scraper actor to automate parsing, decoding, multi‑country runs, deduplication, and only‑new mode.
• 4. Schedule the actor daily with onlyNew:true to receive fresh brand mentions.
• 5. Pull results via Apify SDK or built‑in integrations (Slack, email, webhooks).

Доказательства

Google News has no official API anymore, but it still serves RSS feeds for any search, topic and country.

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Older tricks that base64-decode the URL no longer work for most new articles.

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I built a Google News scraper actor that wraps the above and adds the parts that are tedious to maintain: many countries per run, URL decoding, day-by-day splitting to go past 100 results, deduplication, and a "only new" mode for schedules.

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The feed shows what Google ranks, not a full archive; old dates are patchy.

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