ranahaani/GNews
A Happy and lightweight Python Package that Provides an API to search for articles on Google News and returns a JSON response. observed · 2026-09-01
Health v2 · maintenance only
68/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2023
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1006 stars · 150 forks observed · 2026-09-01
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
GNews is a lightweight Python package that queries the Google News RSS feed and returns article results as usable JSON. It supports keyword, topic, site, and geo-based searches across 141+ countries and 41+ languages, with optional full-text article extraction and a CLI.
Use cases
- scrape google news articles in python
- get top news headlines as json
- search news by keyword or topic
- fetch full article text from news urls
- monitor news for a specific country or language
- collect news articles for nlp datasets
When to choose
- you need a simple, dependency-light way to query Google News without an official API key
- you want JSON results with optional full article extraction
- you need multi-country and multi-language news coverage
When to avoid
- you need a guaranteed SLA or commercial-grade news API (Google may block or change the RSS feed)
- you need non-Google news sources or deep historical archives
- you need high-volume scraping at scale
Facets
library · maturity active
web-scraping http-client search-engine cli json crawlers developer-tools python cli cross-platform google-news rss-feed news-scraper article-extraction newspaper3k news natural-language-processing
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/ranahaani/GNews · fetched 2026-09-01 · 092a42b7ca7d
- homepage: https://pypi.org/project/gnews/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 79e0a9458453
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/gnews/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 089f98076fa4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ranahaani/GNews | main | 68 |
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