News Scraper - Worldwide News Search by Keyword, 65+ Languages

News Scraper: Worldwide News Search by Keyword

Search news coverage from tens of thousands of outlets in more than 65 languages and get every matching article as a clean row: headline, link, outlet, outlet country, language, date, image, tone score and the people, organizations and places mentioned. Data comes from the GDELT Project, an open database that monitors world news around the clock and publishes it for public and automated use. No Google News scraping, no logins, no API key.

What can this news scraper do?

• Search by keyword with exact phrases ("interest rates"), alternatives (tesla OR rivian), groups and exclusions (-sports).
• Find foreign-language coverage too: GDELT translates world news, so an English search also finds German, Spanish or Hindi articles about the topic.
• Filter by outlet country, language or domain, or exclude specific outlets.
• Choose any recent window: 6h, 24h, 3d, 2w, or exact UTC start and end dates (GDELT covers about the last 3 months).
• Remove syndicated duplicates with the same headline.
• Optionally enrich articles with meta description, first paragraphs, author and publish time from the article page.

What data do you get?

Field	Description
query, title, url, domain	The search and the article
sourceCountry, language	Outlet country and article language
seenDate	When GDELT first saw the article (UTC, 15-minute precision)
image	Article's social image
tone	GDELT average tone, negative to positive (usually -10 to +10)
wordCount, persons, organizations, locations	Entities GDELT extracted from the full text
description, leadText, author, publishedTime	With "Fetch article description" on

Who uses it?

• PR and communications teams tracking mentions of a brand, executive or product across world media.
• Investors and analysts following news on companies, sectors, central banks or commodities.
• Researchers and journalists studying how a topic is covered by country, language or outlet.
• Risk and security teams monitoring news about places, suppliers or events.
• AI and data teams feeding fresh news into dashboards, alerts and LLM pipelines.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Enter one or more Search queries, one per line.
3. Set the Time window and any country, language or domain filters.
4. Run it and export to Excel, CSV or JSON, or send new articles to Slack or email.
5. For media monitoring, schedule it hourly with a 2h window.

Input example

{
  "queries": [
    "\"artificial intelligence\"",
    "tesla OR rivian"
  ],
  "timespan": "1d",
  "sourceLanguages": [
    "english"
  ],
  "maxArticles": 50,
  "dedupeByTitle": true
}

Output example

{
  "query": "\"artificial intelligence\"",
  "title": "Minnesota DNR cautions hunters, anglers to avoid AI for researching season info",
  "url": "https://www.outdoornews.com/2026/10/28/minnesota-dnr-cautions-hunters-anglers-to-avoid-ai-for-researching-season-info/",
  "domain": "outdoornews.com",
  "sourceCountry": "United States",
  "language": "English",
  "seenDate": "2026-10-28T14:30:00Z",
  "image": "https://www.outdoornews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Turkeys-fall-toms_Stock-photo.jpg",
  "tone": 0,
  "wordCount": 64,
  "persons": [],
  "organizations": [
    "Division Of Enforcement",
    "Google"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "Minnesota, United States"
  ]
}

How much does it cost?

$2.50 per 1,000 articles ($0.0025 each), plus a $0.00005 start fee per run. No separate compute charges.

You get	You pay
100 articles	$0.25
1,000 articles	$2.50
Hourly brand monitoring averaging 10 new articles per run for a month (~7,200)	about $18

Set Maximum articles per query to cap each search.

Volume discounts on higher Apify plans. The prices above are for the Apify Free plan. On paid plans the per-result price drops automatically: about 15% lower on Bronze, 25% lower on Silver and 38% lower on Gold and above.

Use it via API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent

Apify API. Start a run and get the results back in one HTTP request (replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the token from Apify Console > Settings > Integrations):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plotpointtech~worldwide-news-search/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["\"artificial intelligence\"", "tesla OR rivian"], "timespan": "1d", "sourceLanguages": ["english"], "maxArticles": 50, "dedupeByTitle": true}'

For longer jobs, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes. Official apify-client libraries exist for Python and JavaScript; the API tab on this page has ready-made code.

No-code automation. Connect the tool to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable or any webhook with Apify integrations, and use Schedules in Apify Console to run it hourly, daily or weekly.

AI agents (MCP). Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP-compatible agent direct access to this tool through the hosted Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plotpointtech/worldwide-news-search

The agent can then call the tool with the same input fields shown above and read the results.

FAQ

Is it legal to use this news data? Yes. GDELT publishes its data for free public and automated use, with attribution to the GDELT Project. Headlines and links belong to their publishers; if you fetch article details, the tool visits public pages politely and leaves paywalled or blocking sites empty.

Is this a Google News scraper? No. It does not touch Google. GDELT monitors a very wide set of outlets worldwide, including many local and non-English sources.

How far back can I search? About the last 3 months. Long windows read more data and take longer; the news-file engine scans up to 3 days by default (up to 31 with "Maximum days to scan").

Why do some results only touch on my topic? Matching also uses GDELT's topic tags and extracted entities. Use exact phrases in quotes and -word exclusions to narrow results.

How quickly do new articles appear? GDELT publishes a new update every 15 minutes.

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Plot Point Technologies is not affiliated with the GDELT Project or any news publisher.

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