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Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event) alternatives: recorded billing and usage (2026-10)

Compare 242 Google News alternatives to Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event), ranked by 30-day users; see recorded pricing models, billing events, observation dates and public-run success.

Baseline

Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event) (data_xplorer/google-news-scraper-fast) had 507 users and 99.3% success across 31,134 public runs in 30 days.

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Compare all 243 Google News tools (this page shows the 50 most used alternatives).

Filters apply only to the 50 displayed alternatives (at most 50), in the original usage order. Blank thresholds include unavailable evidence; active thresholds exclude it. Recorded zero is distinct from unavailable. Success measures public-run completion, not output accuracy.

AlternativeUsers 30dSuccess 30dRuns 30dRecorded billing / observationObserved success compared with baseline
Google News Scraper
automation-lab/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
20199.9%11,007

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.30. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: Article scraped (article-scraped)
1 additional listed charge events

Charged for each news article extracted.

  • Run started (start)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.60 percentage points
Google News Scraper
easyapi/google-news-scraper
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20094.2%10,799

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $5.00. USD / run start: $0.090.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
lhotanova/google-news-scraper
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87100.0%78,801

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.00. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: News result (apify-default-dataset-item)
2 additional listed charge events

Cost per news article: title, source, publish date and a Google News link (https://news.google.com/…) that redirects to the article.

  • Add-on: Resolved article URL (resolved-url)
  • Add-on: Article page (article-page)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.68 percentage points
Google News Scraper · Full Article Bodies + Entities
memo23/google-news-scraper
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5090.7%1,222

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.50. USD / run start: $0.050.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
2 additional listed charge events

Single result in the default dataset.

  • Url Resolved (url-resolved)
  • Body enriched (body-enriched)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
solidcode/google-news-scraper
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21100.0%13,262

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
1 additional listed charge events

Single result in the default dataset.

  • Resolve publisher URL (publisher_url_resolved)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.68 percentage points
Google News API
johnvc/GoogleNewsAPI
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1799.6%500

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.010. USD / run start: $0.002.

Selected event: Dataset item stored (apify-default-dataset-item)
2 additional listed charge events

Platform accounting charge, applied per row stored in the dataset.

  • Setup (setup)
  • Page Processed (page_processed)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.30 percentage points
Google News API - News Scraper by Keyword, Country & Language
s-r/google-news
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1699.7%1,440

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: $0.010.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.35 percentage points
Google News Scraper Fast & cheap ⭐ (Pay per results) 📰⚡
scrapestorm/google-news-scraper-fast-cheap-pay-per-results
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
16100.0%2,853

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.99. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper, Real Time Alerts
george.the.developer/google-news-monitor
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15100.0%140

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article Found (article-found)
Event details

Charged per news article discovered and extracted

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper for Monitoring & Alerts
andok/google-news-scraper
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14100.0%816

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: $0.010.

Selected event: Article Found (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Charged per dataset item

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Full Text & Real Article URLs
khadinakbar/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
14100.0%58

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article Scraped (article-scraped)
1 additional listed charge events

Every article pushed to dataset

  • Article Full Text (article-full-text)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper
outspoken_strategy/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
13100.0%106

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $20.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper
epctex/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
1299.5%1,455

Pricing model: FREE. USD / 1,000 primary events: Explicit FREE model. USD / run start: Explicit FREE model.

Explicit FREE pricing model; billing unit unavailable.
Event details

Event description unavailable.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.22 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Articles, Sources & Monitoring
scrapesage/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
1299.6%1,578

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.70. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article scraped (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One news article: title, source and publisher site, publish date, related coverage and the decoded real publisher URL (not a Google News redirect).

  • Full article content extracted (articleContent)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.32 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Fast, Pay Per Result, No Proxy
thirdwatch/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
12100.0%647

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper
fetch_cat/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
1198.0%1,580

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.87. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: Article result (result)
1 additional listed charge events

Per Google News article saved to the dataset

  • Start (start)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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🔥 Google News Search Scraper
powerai/google-news-search-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
1099.3%555

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.99. USD / run start: $0.090.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
lergassy/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
994.2%52

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One headline row from Google News. Error rows and empty results are always free. No fee per run, per query or per page.

  • Add-on: resolved article URL (article-url)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
thescrappa/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
999.5%1,825

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.30. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.15 percentage points
Google News Scraper + Article Extractor
phantom_coder/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
888.5%113

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Result (result)
1 additional listed charge events

Charged per article scraped and returned.

  • Add-on: Article text extracted (text-extracted)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
futurizerush/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
796.7%92

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $20.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper - Articles by Keyword, Real URLs
logiover/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
788.6%105

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper: Full-Text Google News Articles
xmolodtsov/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
797.9%1,592

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $5.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

One article in the dataset: resolved publisher URL, full text, images and metadata.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
data_xplorer/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
6100.0%2,228

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Headlines, Sources, URLs (2K Max)
scrapeio/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
6100.0%477

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $5.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Fast URLs, Images & Alerts
vortex_data/google-news
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
684.4%173

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.70. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper | Keywords, Topics, Real URLs & Text
tactful_anvil/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
5100.0%302

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.20. USD / run start: $0.001.

Selected event: Article (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One news item: clean title, publisher name + domain, real publisher URL (Google redirect decoded), published time, age, snippet or related coverage, feed/query.

  • Article with full text (article-text)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper (Keyword, Topic, Site, Date Range)
webdatatools/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
5100.0%136

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.50. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: article (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single article written to the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper: Company News Alerts by Keyword
accountable_eel/google-news-lookup
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%1,357

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article returned (article)
Event details

Charged once per article returned across all searches. Never charged for a search that returns nothing.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Full Article Text, Alerts & RSS
automly/google-news-scraper-api
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
481.4%43

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.50. USD / run start: $0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper
cirkit/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%80

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Decoded Publisher URLs
dami_studio/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%514

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article (article)
Event details

Per article.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper
deriverge/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
498.6%1,056

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article (article)
Event details

One article returned in the dataset. Duplicates, articles already seen in new-only mode and articles outside the time window are never charged.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News & RSS Scraper — Articles, Publishers, Dates
joyouscam35875/rss-news-aggregator
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
498.4%63

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article parsed (ARTICLE_PARSED)
Event details

One article parsed from a feed

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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News MCP — AP, BBC, NPR & Google News for AI Agents
nexgendata/news-mcp-server
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
499.0%104

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $20.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Tool call (tool-call)
Event details

Per-tool invocation via MCP Standby

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper API | Search & Article Text
peerless_columbine/google-news-scraper-api
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
486.4%44

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.75. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: News article (article-result)
Event details

One delivered article, including usable RSS articles when optional text or image enrichment is unavailable. Error rows have no result fee. Platform usage is additional.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper, Robust and Affordable
practicaltools/apify-google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%49

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper
santamaria-automations/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%2,611

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: $0.001.

Selected event: Article found (news-result)
Event details

A news article with title, source, publication date, and link

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Headlines, Topics & Full Coverage
sian.agency/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
4100.0%217

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.50. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: News Search Result (news-search-result)
4 additional listed charge events

Charged per article returned by a News Search query.

  • Top Headlines Result (top-headlines-result)
  • Topic Headlines Result (topic-headlines-result)
  • Local Headlines Result (local-headlines-result)
  • Full Story Result (full-story-result)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper - Articles, Real URLs & Full Text
tenfoldfleet/google-news-scraper
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4100.0%30

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One news article with title, publisher, date, Google News link and the decoded real URL. With URL decoding on, rows whose real URL Google won't give are free. Failed queries are free.

  • Full article text (article-text)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
RSS & Google News Scraper — AI Summary + Sentiment
viralanalyzer/rss-news-intelligence
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
497.6%85

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $20.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article processed (article-processed)
Event details

Charged per RSS article processed with AI analysis.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper: Search, Topics, Decoded URLs
automation_craft/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3100.0%43

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.00. USD / run start: $0.001.

Selected event: Article (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One news article: headline, publisher, publication time, snippet, the Google News link and the decoded publisher URL. Charged once, only for an article that is new to your dedup memory. Duplicates, filtered rows, known articles and empty runs cost nothing.

  • Article body (article-body)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Search & Topics RSS API
bovi/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3100.0%33

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.90. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: News item (news-item)
Event details

One Google News article result.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Full Article Text & Sentiment
brilliant_gum/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3100.0%33

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $30.00. USD / run start: $0.010.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper + Full Article Text (Markdown for AI)
fguiraud/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
399.7%366

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.00. USD / run start: $0.001.

Selected event: Article (article)
1 additional listed charge events

One news article with title, source, date and the decoded publisher URL.

  • Full article text (full-text)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.42 percentage points
Google News Scraper - $0.002/Article, No Login
gio21/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3100.0%123

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article scraped (article-scraped)
Event details

Charged for each Google News article returned.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
🌐 Google News Scraper — RSS Feeds, Publishers, Real URLs
iettiu/news-aggregator
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3—11

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Article scraped (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

One news article with a real publisher URL, deduped across sources.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News Scraper [only $0.7/1K]
lofomachines/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3100.0%826

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $1.20. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: News article (apify-default-dataset-item)
Event details

Single result in the default dataset.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

Higher observed success: +0.70 percentage points
Google News Scraper — Articles for AI & RAG
muhammadafzal/google-news-scraper
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3—11

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $10.00. USD / run start: $0.005.

Selected event: result (apify-default-dataset-item)
1 additional listed charge events

Single result in the default dataset.

  • full-text-result (full-text-result)

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Google News API - Headlines, Source, Date, No Login
om_kh/google-news-scraper
Compare with Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)
3—7

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.00. USD / run start: Unavailable.

Selected event: Article (article)
Event details

One Google News article delivered (headline, URL, publisher, snippet, date).

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Ranked by 30-day users, with actor ID breaking ties. Rates are recorded list-tier USD amounts per 1,000 selected primary billing events, not inferred output counts. Even matching billing units do not prove equivalent output or total cost. Pricing models, event definitions, features, run-start charges, additional charge events and platform fees can differ. Unavailable means no known recorded rate; zero event rates and explicit FREE models are shown separately. No price ranking is made. Success highlights require 20+ public runs for each tool. Public runs have different workloads, so higher observed success does not guarantee better reliability for your use case. Tools share a target-site category and may serve different tasks. You are responsible for complying with Google News's terms and applicable law. Methodology.

Carried forward means retained from an earlier fetch; pricing and usage may have changed, or the listing may be absent from today's fetch. Unknown observation dates remain unknown. Dataset file dates and tool build dates are not tool observation dates.

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