Yahoo News Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
Yahoo News Scraper
Pricing
Pay per usage
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Donny Nguyen
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Scrape Yahoo News articles across multiple categories including technology, business, science, politics, entertainment, sports, health, and world news. This actor extracts headlines, authors, publication dates, full article text, source attribution, comment counts, and thumbnail URLs for comprehensive news data collection.
Features
- Scrapes Yahoo News category pages and individual article pages
- Extracts headlines, authors, publication dates, and full article text
- Supports 8 news categories for targeted scraping
- Captures comment counts and thumbnail images
- Follows article links from listing pages for detailed content extraction
- Deduplicates articles across categories
- Works with empty input using sensible defaults (technology, business, science)
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
categories | array | ["technology", "business", "science"] | Yahoo News categories to scrape |
maxResults | integer | 100 | Maximum number of articles to return |
Output Fields
Each result in the dataset contains:
- headline - Article headline or title
- author - Article author or byline
- publishedDate - Publication date and time
- articleText - Full article text (up to 2000 characters)
- category - News category
- source - Original source or publisher
- articleUrl - Direct URL to the article
- commentCount - Number of comments on the article
- thumbnailUrl - Article thumbnail image URL
- scrapedAt - ISO timestamp of data collection
Use Cases
Yahoo News data is valuable for news aggregation platforms, media monitoring services, sentiment analysis and NLP research, content curation tools, and market intelligence applications. PR teams use Yahoo News data to track brand mentions and media coverage. Content marketers monitor trending topics to inform their editorial strategy. Academic researchers analyze news coverage patterns for media studies.
Pricing
This actor uses pay-per-event pricing at $0.30 per 1,000 results. You are only charged for actual data delivered to your dataset.
Legal and Compliance
This actor scrapes publicly available news articles from Yahoo News. Article content is subject to copyright protections. Users should review Yahoo's terms of service and ensure compliance with applicable regulations when using scraped news data.
