Yahoo News Scraper

Scrape Yahoo News articles — trending stories, category feeds, and keyword search — across 6 Yahoo News regional editions (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan), with no proxy, no authentication, and no API key required. Uses Yahoo's official RSS feeds for 100% reliability and fresh data updated every 5 minutes.

What You Can Scrape

• Trending top stories — the most important stories for any supported region right now
• Category news — articles from region-specific verticals: US covers World, Politics, Finance, Health, Science, Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle and more; UK/Canada/Australia/Singapore/Japan each expose the subset of categories Yahoo actually publishes for that edition (see Regions below)
• Keyword search — every category feed of the selected region filtered by any keyword or phrase, including non-Latin scripts (e.g. Japanese)

Use Cases

• News monitoring — track coverage of your company, brand, or topic across Yahoo News
• Media research — analyze news trends across multiple categories
• Competitive intelligence — monitor industry news and source coverage
• Content aggregation — build news feeds for specific topics
• Sentiment analysis — collect news headlines and summaries for NLP pipelines
• Data journalism — research how stories break across Yahoo's news network

Modes

Mode	Description
getTrending	Top stories from Yahoo News homepage (default)
browseCategory	Browse one or more news category feeds
search	Filter all Yahoo News categories by keyword

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum	getTrending	getTrending, browseCategory, search
region	enum	us	Yahoo News regional edition: us, uk, ca, au, sg, jp
searchQueries	string[]	—	Required for search mode. Keywords to find.
categories	enum[]	—	Required for browseCategory. One or more categories valid for the selected region.
maxItems	integer	50	Maximum articles to return (1–1000)
keyword	string	—	Optional extra keyword filter on title/description
sourceFilter	string	—	Optional source filter (e.g. Reuters, BBC)

Regions & Supported Categories

Yahoo does not mirror the full category list on every regional edition — only categories confirmed live are exposed per region. Selecting a category that isn't available for the chosen region is ignored with a warning (the run still proceeds with the remaining valid categories).

Region	Domain	Categories
United States (us, default)	news.yahoo.com	topstories, us, world, politics, finance, health, science, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, oddlyenough
United Kingdom (uk)	uk.news.yahoo.com	topstories, world, finance, sports
Canada (ca)	ca.news.yahoo.com	topstories, world, finance, sports
Australia (au)	au.news.yahoo.com	topstories, world
Singapore (sg)	sg.news.yahoo.com	topstories, world, sports
Japan (jp)	news.yahoo.co.jp	topstories, domestic, world, business, entertainment, sports, it, science, local

Note on Japan: Yahoo Japan's RSS feeds carry only title, link, and pubDate — no description, sourceName/sourceUrl, or imageUrl. Records from the jp region will therefore have fewer populated fields than other regions; this reflects what Yahoo's Japanese feeds actually publish, not a scraping limitation.

Output

Each record is one news article.

{
  "title": "Senate Passes Budget Bill in Late-Night Vote",
  "description": "The Senate voted 52-48 to pass the budget bill after a marathon session.",
  "sourceName": "Associated Press",
  "sourceUrl": "https://apnews.com",
  "link": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/senate-passes-budget-bill-123.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T02:10:39Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/abc123.jpg",
  "imageWidth": 2400,
  "imageHeight": 1350,
  "category": "politics",
  "region": "us",
  "guid": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/senate-passes-budget-bill-123.html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-26T06:00:00Z"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Article headline
description	string	Article summary/excerpt (not present for the jp region)
sourceName	string	Publisher name (e.g. Reuters, AP, BBC) — not present for the jp region
sourceUrl	string	Publisher homepage URL — not present for the jp region
link	string	Full article URL
publishedAt	string	ISO 8601 UTC publication date/time
imageUrl	string	Thumbnail image URL (CDN) — not present for the jp region
imageWidth	integer	Image width in pixels
imageHeight	integer	Image height in pixels
category	string	Category slug (us, world, politics, etc.)
region	string	Yahoo News regional edition this record was scraped from (us, uk, ca, au, sg, jp)
guid	string	Unique article identifier
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 UTC scrape timestamp

FAQ

Does this require a proxy? No. Yahoo News RSS feeds are publicly accessible from datacenter IPs with no rate limiting or bot detection.

How fresh is the data? Yahoo News RSS feeds update every 5 minutes.

How many articles are in each feed? Each category RSS feed contains up to roughly 50 articles, depending on the region and category.

How does search mode work? Search mode fetches every category RSS feed of the selected region and filters articles client-side by your keyword(s). Yahoo's dedicated search RSS endpoint is unreliable (it returns HTTP 500), so this actor never calls it — client-side filtering across category feeds is the reliable approach.

Can I filter by date? Use publishedAt in the output to filter by date in your own workflow. All articles include a precise ISO 8601 publication timestamp.

Are all Yahoo News regions supported? Six regions are supported: US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Japan. Other Yahoo News editions (e.g. Yahoo España, Yahoo Taiwan) were not added because their RSS feed availability wasn't verified reliable at build time — only regions confirmed live are exposed. See the Regions table above for exactly which categories are available per region.

Why do some sourceUrl links return a 401/403 when checked outside a browser? sourceUrl is the publisher's own homepage (e.g. reuters.com, thehill.com), not a Yahoo URL. Some publishers run bot-protection (e.g. DataDome) that blocks anonymous non-browser requests to their homepage while working normally in a real browser. This is outside the actor's control and does not affect the primary link field, which always points to the actual Yahoo-hosted article.

What sources are included? Yahoo News aggregates from thousands of publishers including AP, Reuters, BBC, CNN, Fox News, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and many more.

How do I get articles from a specific news source only? Use the sourceFilter input. For example, set sourceFilter: "Reuters" to return only Reuters articles. Note it's a literal substring match — "AP" will not match "Associated Press" since "ap" isn't a substring of that name; use sourceFilter: "Associated Press" instead.