# News Search Scraper - Global News Articles by Keyword (`angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper`) Actor

Search news articles from thousands of global outlets by keyword, domain, country & language (open GDELT data). No API key. $1 per 1,000 articles.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Lead Radar NYC](https://apify.com/angelic_hideout) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## News Search Scraper: Global News Articles by Keyword

Search news articles from thousands of outlets worldwide by keyword, and get title, URL, source domain, publish time, language, country and image. You don't need an API key or a login. Results are clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

Data comes from the **GDELT Project**, an open, free news index that monitors news in 100+ languages and updates every 15 minutes. You can use it commercially with attribution ("Data: The GDELT Project, gdeltproject.org").

### Use cases

Brand and competitor monitoring, PR clipping, market and investment research, lead triggers (funding, expansion or hiring news), and AI/RAG news feeds.

### Input

- `queries`: keywords. Use `"exact phrase"` for exact matches and `(a OR b)` for alternatives.
- Filters: `language`, `country`, `domain` (e.g. reuters.com).
- `timespan`: 15 minutes up to 3 months. `sort`: newest, relevance or tone.
- `maxArticlesPerQuery`: up to 250.

### Output

```json
{"title":"...","url":"https://...","domain":"reuters.com","publishedAt":"2026-10-26T14:00:00+00:00","language":"English","sourceCountry":"United States","image":"https://...","query":"electric vehicles"}
```

### Pricing

**$1.00 per 1,000 articles.** There is no start fee and no monthly fee.

### Reliability and limits

- The actor respects GDELT's fair-use rate (at most 1 request every 5 seconds) and retries up to 8 times when GDELT is busy, so a run can take a few minutes. If a query still fails, it returns nothing and you are not charged for it. Each run saves a `STATS` record.
- It returns article metadata and links, not full article text.
- Very short or overly common single words may return nothing. Use phrases.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Keywords or phrases. Use quotes for exact phrases, OR between terms.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Source language, e.g. english, spanish, french. Leave empty for all.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional FIPS country code of the source, e.g. US, UK, IN.

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Optional domain filter, e.g. reuters.com

## `timespan` (type: `string`):

How far back to search (up to 3 months).

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Newest first, relevance, or tone.

## `maxArticlesPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Up to 250 per query.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ],
  "language": "english",
  "country": "",
  "domain": "",
  "timespan": "1d",
  "sort": "DateDesc",
  "maxArticlesPerQuery": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

News articles

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "queries": [
        "electric vehicles"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "queries": ["electric vehicles"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "electric vehicles"
  ]
}' |
apify call angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,angelic_hideout/news-search-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/PzwljcSjTTTOPh3SG/builds/z5jmm2gknFVtas0mC/openapi.json