Google News Scraper in Typescript

A lightweight typescript package that scrapes article data from Google News. Simply pass a keyword or phrase, and the results are returned as an array of JSON objects.

• Installation
• Usage
• Output
• Contribute
• Issues

Installation

# Install via NPM
npm i neo-scraper-google-news

# Install via Yarn
yarn add neo-scraper-google-news

Usage

// Require the package
import { googleNewsScraper } from 'neo-scraper-google-news';

// Execute within an async function, pass a config object (further documentation below)
const articles = await googleNewsScraper({
  searchTerm: 'business OR entertainment',
  shouldFetchPrettyUrls: true,
  shouldFetchOGData: true,
  queryVars: {
    hl: 'en-US',
    gl: 'US',
    ceid: 'US:en',
  },
  timeframe: '7d',
});

Output

The output is an array of JSON objects, with each article following the structure below:

[
  {
    "title": "India Focus: Beam travel retail focus, Dole juice innovation, fresh produce shelf life booster and more feature in our round-up",
    "link": "https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiogFodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb29kbmF2aWdhdG9yLWFzaWEuY29tL0FydGljbGUvMjAyMi8wNy8xNS9pbmRpYS1mb2N1cy1iZWFtLXN1bnRvcnktdHJhdmVsLXJldGFpbC1mb2N1cy1kb2xlLWp1aWNlLWlubm92YXRpb24tZnJlc2gtcHJvZHVjZS1zaGVsZi1saWZlLWJvb3N0ZXItYW5kLW1vcmXSAQA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen",
    "image": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/_aaG4IGctsytZsLpf1pmGbBbmmktoM4iCleYUZCsVsXCTdUmAmJ4TynWucT6zbA6ZXwVslewuZbr7wYse07Z3YNxsw970RbBDJz_8u7zEJhwcKTw3GTDsV3PonXP4mMDltxND6s_FHXgEzkxxBrd9bGRa_3qEptVcvCLnaHmvXUSOTG_DP7lz3xVCdJE27xVZiq9AKVjqsbCswpsVE-kuhNWJPlnJBArl06kOD6B0QWNCC6YGMmZjDmVPZkG0UDERKrhXciXLtXYX5Dt0Fsm0A6Md_lGU1sFz6F5191EdD7c7v8wQpxxk9aBtJtAs3W6DV0sD-cucrkdNi2Qk8-wa55pkK5FTO4D3TORNpdMMGhByOnFcq_Wo2LPhv_4J0vWQUzxw0K4F6c_PxXWfL4j01RFTAvzwIhpeCYuVkAubxh5rgzOQLcCD6o-CmNKm2qJjxV71Tuh-GX5Q3c_mML7pbln2YaYmDQlCo0PuOqKH6rspzCpIK_bfw0fncrzIcSp2BrdWk2VPzjHo95tgtwPFQGQqbmHi7ISBqqKc1ZNO45HQgU=s0-w100-h100-dcoZSSzLUG",
    "source": "FoodNavigator-Asia.com",
    "datetime": "2022-07-15T04:22:00.000Z",
    "time": "10 hours ago",
    "related": [],
    "prettyUrl": "https://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Article/2022/07/15/india-focus-beam-suntory-travel-retail-focus-dole-juice-innovation-fresh-produce-shelf-life-booster-and-more",
    "ogData": {
      "link": "https://news.google.com",
      "image": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/J6_coFbogxhRI9iM864NL_liGXvsQp2AupsKei7z0cNNfDvGUmWUy20nuUhkREQyrpY4bEeIBuc=s0-w300",
      "description": "news description"
    }
  }
]

Upkeep

Please note that this is a web-scraper, which relies on DOM selectors, so any fundamental changes in the markup on the Google News site will probably break this tool. I'll try my best to keep it up-to-date, but changes to the markup on Google News will be silent and therefore difficult to keep track of. Feel free to submit an issue if the tool stops working.

Issues

Please report bugs via the issue tracker.

Contribute

Feel free to submit a PR if you've fixed an open issue. Thank you.