Extract And Decode Google News RSS URLs to Clean Article Links
This workflow can automatically scrape RSS news feeds from Google News, extract and decode news links, and obtain clean article addresses that are directly accessible. It supports news in multiple languages and regions, automatically limits the number of processed items to prevent request overload, and employs a reverse decoding mechanism to bypass URL encoding and obfuscation. The output links are convenient for subsequent use, making it suitable for applications such as media monitoring, content collection, and data analysis, significantly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of obtaining news links.
Workflow Name
Extract And Decode Google News RSS URLs to Clean Article Links
Key Features and Highlights
This workflow automatically fetches Google News RSS feeds, extracts the encoded URLs from the news list, and obtains clean, directly accessible news article links through reverse engineering and decoding requests.
- Supports multilingual and multi-regional news sources by adjusting URL parameters (hl, gl, ceid)
- Automatically limits the number of news items processed to prevent request overload
- Implements a reverse-engineering decoding mechanism to bypass Google’s encoding and obfuscation of news links
- Outputs clean, redirect-free news article URLs for convenient downstream use
Core Problem Addressed
Google News RSS links are typically encoded and routed through redirects, which hinders direct scraping or reuse. This workflow solves the problem of obfuscated and encoded Google News URLs by decoding them, enabling users to obtain clean, directly accessible news article addresses.
Use Cases
- Media monitoring and news aggregation platforms for rapid acquisition of clean news links
- Content collection and data analysis, facilitating automated processing of news content
- Research on Google News dissemination mechanisms and anti-scraping strategies
- Automated news push and intelligence systems
Main Workflow Steps
- Manually trigger the workflow
- Fetch Google News RSS feed, retrieving news lists based on language and regional parameters
- Limit the number of news items (default 5) to avoid excessive requests
- Access each encoded news URL and retrieve the HTML content
- Extract decoding keys such as signature and timestamp from the HTML
- Construct decoding request payload and call Google’s internal decoding API
- Parse the decoding response to extract clean news article URLs
- Aggregate all cleaned news links and output the results
Involved Systems or Services
- Google News RSS Feed
- HTTP request service (POST calls to Google decoding API)
- n8n node capabilities: RSS reading, HTTP requests, HTML parsing, code execution, data mapping and aggregation
Target Users and Value
- News data analysts and content collection engineers
- Media and public opinion monitoring personnel
- Automation operators and developers needing quick access to clean Google News links
- Technical researchers focused on news scraping and anti-scraping optimization
This workflow automates the complex process of parsing Google News links, enabling one-click extraction of clean news URLs, significantly improving data scraping efficiency and accuracy.