n8n Workflow: Review Google News Brand Mentions in Google Sheets

Find where your brand shows up on Google News—and capture the proof in Google Sheets

This n8n workflow searches Google News for your brand mentions, consolidates duplicate results, reads the most relevant pages, and logs matching passages, observed links, and review statuses to Google Sheets—so you can review media coverage without running outreach.

What this workflow does

• Loads your targeting inputs: brand domain, brand aliases, excluded domains, plus country and language settings—then validates limits and required values before making paid requests.
• Manages query inputs safely: reads queries from a “Queries” sheet, rejects duplicates or oversized batches, and checks for duplicate saved keys when results are read.
• Searches Google News: pulls article titles, publishers, publication dates, and URLs using HasData. Missing responses are marked as unavailable (not proof that coverage doesn’t exist).
• Combines duplicates and prioritizes candidates: merges duplicate article URLs, keeps all queries that produced each article, excludes your own domain/configured sources, prioritizes multi-query matches, and orders by publication date while limiting page reads across the full run.
• Reads selected articles and extracts evidence: matches brand aliases using word boundaries and looks for direct links to your domain or subdomains. Failed reads and truncated content remain distinguishable from usable evidence.
• Saves an inventory + review queue: writes discovery inventory and a review queue to Google Sheets, including filtering for review_unlinked_mention to identify matching text without a link match.

Use cases

• Media monitoring for SaaS operators: quickly assess whether Google News mentions link back to your website.
• Brand research workflows: build a list of coverage candidates and capture supporting passages for internal review.
• Automation engineers: maintain a repeatable n8n process for ongoing Google News brand tracking.

Technical details

• n8n nodes/logic: if, set, code, html, sticky note, http request
• Integrations: Google Sheets for “Queries” input and results logging; Google News search via HasData