Economic News Aggregator

Economic News Aggregator collects the latest economic and financial news from multiple trusted international sources — including BBC Business, The Guardian Economics, CNBC Economy, MarketWatch, and Investing.com — and returns them as a single, clean, structured dataset. Instead of visiting five different news sites and copy-pasting headlines, you get one API call that returns normalized, deduplicated articles ready to plug into a dashboard, a newsletter, a trading signal pipeline, or a research workflow. Try it directly from the Input tab with the default sources, or point it at your own list of RSS feeds.

Running on the Apify platform gives you programmatic API access, scheduling (e.g. run every hour to catch breaking news), integrations with Zapier/Make/Slack, automatic proxy handling if you add more sources later, and full run monitoring — without maintaining any scraping infrastructure yourself.

Why use Economic News Aggregator?

• Market monitoring — feed fresh economic headlines into a trading dashboard or algorithm without building and maintaining your own RSS parsers.
• Newsletters & content curation — automatically pull the day's top economic stories for a daily digest.
• Research & sentiment analysis — collect a normalized stream of financial news text for NLP or sentiment models.
• Competitive/media monitoring — track how multiple outlets are covering a specific economic topic (inflation, interest rates, a named company) using the keyword filter.
• No maintenance overhead — RSS feeds are structured and stable by design, so this Actor is far less likely to break than a scraper depending on a website's HTML layout.

How to use Economic News Aggregator

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on the Actor page.
2. Keep the default list of 5 RSS feeds, or replace it with your own feeds in the RSS feed URLs field.
3. Optionally set Keywords filter to only keep articles matching specific topics (e.g. inflation, interest rate, Federal Reserve).
4. Optionally set Max article age (hours) if you plan to run the Actor on a schedule and only want fresh news each time.
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Open the Dataset tab to view, filter, and export the results.

Input

The Actor accepts a JSON input with the following fields (see the Input tab for the full form):

Field	Type	Description
feedUrls	array of strings	RSS feeds to aggregate. Defaults to 5 major economic/financial news feeds.
maxItemsPerFeed	integer	Maximum number of articles to keep per feed (default: 50).
keywords	array of strings	Only keep articles whose title or summary contains one of these words. Leave empty to keep everything.
maxAgeHours	integer	Only keep articles published in the last N hours. 0 disables the filter (default).

Example input:

{
  "feedUrls": [
    "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/business/rss.xml",
    "https://www.cnbc.com/id/20910258/device/rss/rss.html"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerFeed": 50,
  "keywords": ["inflation", "interest rate"],
  "maxAgeHours": 24
}

Output

Each dataset item is one news article:

{
  "title": "U.S. job creation cools in June with payrolls growth of just 57,000",
  "link": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job-seekers...",
  "source": "Economy",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-02T18:31:00+00:00",
  "summary": "Job creation slowed sharply in June as the unemployment rate ticked up...",
  "author": null,
  "guid": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job-seekers..."
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data fields

Field	Description
title	Article headline
link	URL to the full article
source	Name of the publishing outlet/feed
publishedAt	Publication date/time in ISO 8601 (UTC)
summary	Short description/excerpt, HTML tags stripped
author	Author name, if provided by the feed
guid	Unique identifier used for deduplication

Pricing / Cost estimation

This Actor performs lightweight HTTP requests to RSS feeds (no browser, no heavy compute), so runs are fast and cheap — typically a few seconds per run for the default 5 feeds. Actual cost depends on the pricing model configured on the Actor page (e.g. pay-per-result or pay-per-usage); check the Pricing tab for exact rates. A free tier is available for new Apify accounts to try the Actor before committing.

Tips or advanced options

• Add or remove feeds in feedUrls to focus on the outlets that matter to you — any standard RSS 2.0 feed should work.
• Combine keywords with a scheduled run (e.g. hourly) and maxAgeHours to build a near real-time alert pipeline on a specific topic.
• If a feed occasionally returns an error (rate limiting, temporary outage, or an anti-bot block), the Actor logs a warning and continues with the remaining feeds — a single broken source never fails the whole run.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This Actor only reads publicly available RSS feeds, which are explicitly published by news outlets for automated syndication. It does not scrape paywalled or login-protected content. Content and formatting are controlled by the source publishers and may change without notice; some publishers may occasionally block automated requests (see run logs for skipped feeds). Always respect the terms of use of any additional feed you add. If you have suggestions, run into an issue, or need a custom version of this Actor (e.g. additional sources, sentiment scoring, or webhook alerts), open an issue in the Actor's Issues tab.