News Scraper API | Search News Articles | From $0.50/1K Pages

Search recent news about companies, products, people, industries, or events and receive structured article results through Apify. Paid plans start at $0.50 per 1,000 successfully loaded news pages; Free-plan users pay $0.70 per 1,000. Beyond the small Actor-start fee, page events are charged only when a news page loads and parses successfully. Undelivered pages are not charged.

Each successful query returns ordered headlines, article URLs, publishers, relative publication times, snippets, and available images in one dataset item. Use the News Scraper API for news monitoring, competitor research, market intelligence, news aggregation workflows, AI agents, and alerts. Run it from the Apify Console or API, schedule recurring searches, trigger webhooks, and export reusable datasets without another news API key.

Why use this news scraper?

• Focused news results: search for recent reporting without mixing the dataset with general web pages.
• Low pay-per-page pricing: paid plans start at $0.50 per 1,000 successfully loaded news pages; the Free-plan rate is $0.70 per 1,000.
• Useful article metadata: collect headlines, URLs, publishers, publication times, snippets, images, and result positions in a consistent structure.
• Simple input: submit one news query of up to 200 characters per run.
• News monitoring workflows: schedule recurring searches for companies, competitors, products, industries, or developing topics.
• Automation ready: call the Actor through Apify APIs and clients, connect webhooks and integrations, or export the dataset in supported formats.
• No separate provider account: use your Apify account without supplying another news API key, browser session, cookies, or proxy settings.

Need ranked web pages, sitelinks, and related searches instead of focused news results? Use Curly's SERP API.

How to use it

1. Enter one news query of up to 200 characters.
2. Click Start.
3. Open Dataset to inspect or download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or another supported format.
4. Duplicate the run as a task or schedule it when you want recurring news monitoring.

{
  "query": "OpenAI product announcements"
}

Input

Field	Required	What it does
query	Yes	Searches recent news for one non empty term or phrase of up to 200 characters.
country	No	Optional country code to target results toward (for example us, de, gb). Results are limited by availability for the submitted query.
time	No	Optional recency window: day, week, month, or year.
pages	No	Optional result depth from 1 to 5. Each additional page loads more news results via the news feed's "More Results" control.

The Actor accepts exactly one query per run and rejects undocumented input fields.

What news data can you extract?

Each result can include:

• Its position in the returned result set
• The article headline and absolute URL
• The publisher or news outlet
• The relative publication time shown with the result
• A short article snippet when available
• An article image URL when available

Optional snippets and images remain null when they are unavailable. The Actor does not invent missing article details.

Example output

Each successful query produces one dataset item:

{
  "query": "OpenAI product announcements",
  "country": "us",
  "time": "week",
  "pages": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "OpenAI announces new platform features",
      "url": "https://example.com/news/openai-platform-features",
      "source": "Example News",
      "published": "3 hours ago",
      "snippet": "The company introduced new platform capabilities for developers and businesses.",
      "thumbnail": "https://example.com/images/openai-platform.jpg"
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "Developers respond to the latest OpenAI release",
      "url": "https://example.org/technology/openai-release",
      "source": "Example Technology",
      "published": "1 day ago",
      "snippet": "Early users shared how the release could change existing AI workflows.",
      "thumbnail": null
    }
  ]
}

The results array preserves the returned order. A completed search with no available articles still stores a dataset item with an empty results array.

Run through the API

Run the Actor synchronously and receive the stored dataset item:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/curly~news-scraper-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{"query":"OpenAI product announcements"}'

The same input works with the Apify API, JavaScript and Python clients, tasks, schedules, webhooks, and integrations. Never place a real Apify token in public code or client side applications.

Common use cases

• Monitor competitor news and product announcements
• Track brand mentions in recent reporting
• Follow industry developments and market signals
• Build news aggregation and alerting workflows
• Collect sources for research briefs and internal reports
• Supply recent news context to AI agents and retrieval workflows
• Export structured news data to spreadsheets, databases, or dashboards
• Trigger downstream workflows when new coverage appears

Pricing

Paid plans start at $0.50 per 1,000 successfully loaded news pages; the Free-plan rate is $0.70 per 1,000. Each run also has a small Actor-start charge: $0.0006 on paid plans or $0.001 on the Free plan.

Page events are charged only for news pages that load and parse successfully. A successfully parsed page is billable even when it contains no article listings. Pages that cannot be delivered because of an unavailable search, timeout, rate limit, or another operational failure are not charged. Individual articles inside the results array are never separate billing events.

Free-plan users can submit one accepted run every 12 hours. Paying Apify users are not subject to this product limit.

Limitations

• Each run accepts one query of up to 200 characters.
• Result counts and article order can change as news coverage develops.
• Publication time is returned as relative text such as 3 hours ago, not as a normalized timestamp.
• Snippets and images are optional and can be null.
• The Actor returns news result metadata, not the full article body.
• Country is a targeting hint only: result regional composition depends on availability for the submitted query and returned coverage.
• A completed query can return an empty results array when no suitable articles are available.

Responsible use

You are responsible for using the Actor and its output in accordance with applicable laws, privacy requirements, copyright rules, contractual obligations, and website terms. Do not republish copyrighted article content without permission or use the results for spam, harassment, surveillance, or other unlawful purposes.

FAQ

What is a news scraper API?

A news scraper API searches recent news and returns article metadata in a structured format that applications and automated workflows can consume. This Actor returns ordered headlines, URLs, publishers, relative publication times, snippets, and available images.

What does one run return?

One run returns one dataset item for the submitted query. The item contains the query and an ordered results array of available news articles.

How is this different from a SERP API?

This Actor focuses on recent news articles and publisher metadata. Curly's SERP API returns broader web search results, including ranked pages, domains, snippets, sitelinks, and related searches.

Do I need another news API key or account?

No. Use your Apify account and token when calling the Actor through the Apify API. No separate news provider credentials are required.

Can I use it for news monitoring?

Yes. Save a query as an Apify task, schedule recurring runs, and connect a webhook or integration to process newly returned coverage.

Can I build a news aggregation workflow with it?

Yes. Send structured results to a database, spreadsheet, dashboard, or application. Your workflow should deduplicate article URLs between runs when maintaining a continuous feed.

Does the output contain full article text?

No. The Actor returns result metadata and available snippets. It does not download or reproduce the full article body.

Can I target a country or recency window?

Yes. The optional country input targets results toward a region, and the optional time input filters to a recency window (day, week, month, or year). Result composition still depends on available coverage for the submitted query. Language targeting is not exposed as an input.

What happens when no news articles are found?

A valid, successfully parsed news page completes normally and stores one dataset item with an empty results array. That delivered page is billable. An unavailable or rate limited query does not create a dataset item or page charge.

How much does the News Scraper API cost?

Paid Apify plans start at $0.50 per 1,000 successfully loaded news pages, while the Free-plan rate is $0.70 per 1,000. The small Actor-start charge is $0.0006 on paid plans or $0.001 on the Free plan. Undelivered pages and individual article results do not create page charges.

Is there a Free-plan usage limit?

Yes. Free-plan users can submit one accepted run every 12 hours. Paying Apify users are not subject to this product limit.

Can I automate the News Scraper API?

Yes. Call it through Apify's REST API or official clients, save reusable tasks, schedule recurring searches, trigger webhooks, connect integrations, and export datasets in supported formats.

Support

For questions, missing fields, or unexpected results, contact hello@trycurly.xyz.