News Search Articles Scraper (no cookies)

News Search Articles Scraper

Search for news articles from worldwide sources by keyword. Returns the article headline, URL, snippet, publication time in UTC, authors, photo and thumbnail URLs, and the source name, URL, favicon, and domain. Supports filtering by publication time, source, country, and language. The response also includes the requested limit and a count of the articles actually returned.

Features

• Real-time News data — results are fetched live at run time, never cached or stale
• No login, cookies, or proxy configuration needed — just provide the input and run
• Each result is pushed as a separate dataset item, exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel
• Fast: a typical run finishes in seconds

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
query	string	yes	Search query (max 500 characters, cannot be blank)
limit	integer	no	Maximum number of results to return (1-100). Fewer may come back; the response count field reports how many articles were returned.
time_published	string	no	Filter by publication time: anytime, 1h, 1d, 7d, or 1y One of: anytime, 1h, 1d, 7d, 1y.
source	string	no	Filter by news source domain (e.g., bbc.com, reuters.com, cnn.com)
country	string	no	2-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., us, gb, de, jp). Must be exactly 2 letters.
language	string	no	2-letter ISO 639-1 language code (e.g., en, es, fr, de, ja). Must be exactly 2 letters.

Pricing

This Actor is billed per run — a flat $0.008 per run.

• One run returns all matching results for your input, and costs $0.008 — whether it comes back with one result or hundreds.
• You’re only charged when a run succeeds, or when it fails because what you asked for was looked up and doesn’t exist, is private, or isn’t valid: that costs one run ($0.008). Other failed runs are free.
• On Apify’s free plan you get 50 requests a month across all Data Direct scrapers (each run counts as one; runs that cost nothing don’t count), reset on the 1st (UTC). Paid Apify plans have no limit.

Example output

{
  "authors": [],
  "domain": "singularityhub.com",
  "photo_url": "https://singularityhub.com/uploads/2026/04/quantum_computing_ibm-scaled.webp?auto=webp&auto=webp&optimize=high&quality=70&width=1440",
  "published_datetime_utc": "2026-04-03T20:20:23.000Z",
  "snippet": "With billions invested and prototypes being tested outside the lab, the quantum era is starting to take shape.",
  "source_favicon_url": "https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/faviconV2?url=https://singularityhub.com&client=NEWS_360&size=96&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL",
  "source_name": "SingularityHub",
  "source_url": "https://singularityhub.com",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://news.google.com/api/attachments/CC8iK0NnNVFZVWd4YzAxdlRrbExUV3AyVFJDZkF4ampCU2dLTWdZWkVvelBwQVE=-w200-h200-p-df-rw",
  "title": "Five Ways Quantum Technology Could Shape Everyday Life",
  "url": "https://singularityhub.com/2026/04/03/five-ways-quantum-technology-could-shape-everyday-life/"
}

About

Maintained by Data Direct — a small suite of fast, reliable News and web-data scrapers. Each actor returns clean, structured results with no login, cookies, or proxy setup required. Have a question or a custom data need? Open an issue on this actor.