Layoffs & Restructuring News Tracker for Recruiters
Weekly company layoffs, job cuts, and restructuring news with AI summaries that help recruiters source talent and time sales outreach around change.
How it works
- 1Open it on Apify
Hit Run on Apify — it opens the tool in the cloud, no install.
- 2Set the inputs
Adjust
query,topic,freshness(sensible defaults are pre-filled). - 3Click Run
The tool runs on Apify’s cloud and collects the data for you.
- 4Export the results
Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pipe straight into your app, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.
Inputs
| Field | What it does | Type |
|---|---|---|
query | Keywords to search Google News for (e.g. "electric vehicles", or advanced: "tesla OR rivian site:reuters.com"). Leave empty if using a Topic instead. | string |
topic | Use a Google News topic feed instead of a search query. | string |
freshness | Only return articles newer than this (applied to query searches). | string |
language | Interface/article language code, e.g. en-US, en-GB, fr, de, es-419. | string |
country | Edition country code, e.g. US, GB, CA, DE, FR, IN. | string |
maxItems | Maximum number of articles to return (Google News feeds cap around 100 per query). | integer |
resolveUrls | Decode Google's redirect links into the actual article URL (e.g. reuters.com/...). Best-effort; falls back to the Google link with urlResolved=false if a link c | boolean |
fetchArticleText | Download each resolved article and extract its main body text. Slower; requires Resolve URLs. Some sites block scraping or have no extractable body — those rows | boolean |
aiSummary | Generate a 1-2 sentence summary and a sentiment label per article using OpenAI. Needs an OpenAI API key. Best-effort: if the OpenAI call fails for an article, t | boolean |
openaiApiKey | Only needed when AI summary is on. Kept private. | string |
notionConnector | Optional. Write each article as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connecto | string |
notionParentId | Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your wo | string |
What you get
A structured dataset — each result includes fields like:
articleTextgoogleUrlpublishedAtquerysnippetsourcesourceUrltitletopicurlurlResolvedExport every run as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your app, a database, Google Sheets, or an AI agent.
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