Yandex News Scraper

The only reliable tool for Russian-language media monitoring. Yandex News is Russia's dominant news aggregator, clustering multiple publications around the same event from thousands of sources across Russia and the CIS — data unavailable through any major Western news API.

What You Can Scrape

• Story clusters — headline, summary, category, topic tags, total publication count
• Individual articles — per-outlet headline, source name, source URL, article URL, publication date
• Trending topics — the "что обсуждают" real-time trending panel from the Yandex News homepage

Use Cases

• Brand monitoring — track Russian and CIS press coverage of your company, product, or executives
• Geopolitical research — monitor news events across Russian, Kazakh, Belarusian, and Uzbek media simultaneously
• Competitive intelligence — see which stories dominate Russian media on any topic
• Journalism & academic research — systematic collection of Russian-language news for media analysis
• PR agencies — measure share of voice across CIS markets

Modes

Mode	Description
searchNews	Search by keyword or phrase. Supports Russian and English queries.
browseCategory	Browse a Yandex News topic category (politics, technology, sports, etc.)
getTrending	Scrape the homepage: trending topic keywords + top story clusters

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum	searchNews	searchNews, browseCategory, getTrending
searchQueries	string[]	—	Required for searchNews. E.g. ["Яндекс", "Apple"]
categoryUrls	string[]	—	Required for browseCategory. Use dzen.ru/news/rubric/* URLs. Confirmed slugs: computers, politics, world, sport, business, science, society, culture, auto, health
domain	enum	ru	ru, kz, by, uz, com
maxStories	integer	20	Story clusters to scrape (1–200)
sortOrder	enum	newest	newest, popular
language	enum	ru	ru, kk, be, uz, en
proxyConfiguration	object	RESIDENTIAL	Strongly recommended

Output

Two linked record types per story, plus a trending record for getTrending runs.

Story record

{
  "recordType": "story",
  "storyId": "Yandeks_zapustil_novyj_servis-abc123",
  "headline": "Яндекс запустил новый сервис",
  "summary": "Компания объявила о запуске...",
  "category": "Технологии",
  "topicTags": ["Яндекс", "технологии"],
  "articleCount": 12,
  "domain": "ru",
  "storyUrl": "https://news.yandex.ru/story/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T10:00:00Z"
}

Article record

{
  "recordType": "article",
  "storyId": "Yandeks_zapustil_novyj_servis-abc123",
  "headline": "Яндекс анонсировал новый ИИ-сервис",
  "summary": "Как сообщает РБК, компания...",
  "sourceName": "РБК",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.rbc.ru/",
  "articleUrl": "https://rbc.ru/technology/...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-18",
  "domain": "ru",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T10:00:00Z"
}

Trending record

{
  "recordType": "trending",
  "topics": ["Газпром", "выборы", "ИИ", "курс доллара"],
  "domain": "ru",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-18T10:00:00Z"
}

Proxy

Yandex News blocks automated requests without proxy. Use Apify Residential Proxy for best results — configure via the proxyConfiguration input.

FAQ

Which Yandex News domains are supported? All five: ru (Russia), kz (Kazakhstan), by (Belarus), uz (Uzbekistan), com (international).

How do story and article records link together? Every article record has a storyId field matching its parent story record's storyId. Filter by recordType to separate the two.

What is the articleCount field? The total number of publications Yandex reports for the story cluster — not limited by maxStories. It reflects how widely a story was covered.

Can I search in English? Yes — set language: "en" and use English queries. Results will include English-language sources indexed by Yandex News.

Why do some stories have fewer articles than articleCount? Yandex's reported count can differ from the visible cluster list due to paywalled, geo-blocked, or de-listed articles. The actor scrapes only what Yandex renders.