News Search Articles Scraper

Search for news articles from worldwide sources by keyword. Supports filtering by publication time, source domain, country, and language.

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)
limit	integer	no	Number of results to return (1-100)
time_published	string	no	Filter by publication time — anytime, 1h, 1d, 7d, 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 country code (e.g., us, gb, de, jp)
language	string	no	2-letter language code (e.g., en, es, fr, de, ja)

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. Failed runs are free.

Example output

{
  "articles": [
    {
      "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/"
    },
    {
      "authors": [],
      "domain": "iiss.org",
      "photo_url": "https://www.iiss.org/globalassets/media-library---content--migration/images-delta/charting/middle-east/2026/04/cme-thumbnail.png",
      "published_datetime_utc": "2026-04-02T08:20:05.000Z",
      "snippet": "The Israel\u2013Hamas war of May 2021 was described in the Israeli press as 'the world's first AI war', integrating a number of new artificial\u00a0...",
      "source_favicon_url": "https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/faviconV2?url=https://www.iiss.org&client=NEWS_360&size=96&type=FAVICON&fallback_opts=TYPE,SIZE,URL",
      "source_name": "The International Institute for Strategic Studies",
      "source_url": "https://www.iiss.org",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://news.google.com/ap
  ... (truncated)

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