RSS Feed Scraper: Any Feed & Bing News

News Scraper: Bing News & Any RSS Feed

Google News was removed on 8 November 2026. news.google.com's robots.txt asks automated tools not to read it, and this Actor follows robots.txt. Search queries now read Bing News, and Google's section feeds (topics) are answered with an unbilled note.

Track any topic across Bing News and any RSS or Atom feed: in one normalised table.

RSS is a publish-for-syndication format, so there's no key, no login and no bot wall anywhere in this Actor.

Two ways in, one shape out

Search: searchQueries: ["tesla recall", "\"interest rates\" ECB"] Bing News, in the edition language and country pick (de + DE reads German news). Bing's feed holds about a dozen articles per query.

Any feed: feedUrls: ["https://github.blog/feed/", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"] A publisher's own feed, a company blog, a subreddit, a podcast. RSS 2.0 and Atom both work, they disagree about nearly every field name, and this Actor reconciles them so a mixed list still returns one clean table.

Do you need an API key? No. Is there a free tier? Yes.

The two things people search for in this category, measured, are free and API key.

So, plainly:

• No API key. Nothing to register for, nothing to rotate, no key to leak in a repo. The source is a public API published deliberately by its owner.
• No proxy setup. The source does not bot-wall datacenter addresses, so the default works.
• Pay per result, not per month. There is no subscription and no minimum. Rows that error or that your filters drop are not charged.
• Free to try. Run it with the prefilled input and see real rows before deciding anything.

What you get

Field	Example
title	Apple options are doing something unusual into earnings
publisher	CNBC
publishedAt	2026-07-27T10:58:27Z, normalised to UTC across every feed format
summary	plain text, HTML stripped
url, image, categories, feedTitle, guid
source	which query or feed it came from

Syndicated duplicates removed

One wire story runs verbatim under dozens of outlets. dedupeHeadlines (on by default) keys on the normalised headline, not the URL, which differs per outlet, so those collapse into one row. Duplicates are not charged.

Filters

{
  "searchQueries": ["openai"],
  "keywords": ["funding", "lawsuit"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["opinion"],
  "publishers": ["Reuters", "Bloomberg"],
  "publishedSince": "2026-07-01",
  "maxArticlesPerSource": 100
}

Articles from feeds that omit a publish date are kept, not silently dropped, missing isn't the same as too old.

Any language, any country

language: "de", country: "DE" gives you the German edition. Works for he/IL, fr/FR, es/ES and the rest.

Who this is for

• Brand & competitor monitoring: a query per brand, scheduled hourly
• PR & comms: every mention, deduplicated, with publisher and timestamp
• Newsletters & aggregators: merge many feeds into one clean source
• Trading & research: headline flow on a ticker or sector, filtered by outlet
• AI / dataset builders: normalised article metadata from any feed on the web

Time window

timeframe keeps only articles published inside the window (past hour, 12 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, week, 30 days or year), on searches and custom feeds alike. An article outside it is dropped before it is charged; one whose feed gives no date is kept rather than silently lost. publishedSince works the same way with a fixed date, and the later of the two wins.

Notes

• Bing News returns a headline and a short summary, not full article text. Custom feedUrls often carry more.
• A feed that's down or isn't valid XML comes back as one error row and is not charged; the other sources in the run still return.
• Set a max charge per run in the run options for a hard spend ceiling. The Actor honors it and stops cleanly.

Pricing

Pay per result. One row = one article. Failed feeds come back as error rows and are not charged, and neither are duplicates or anything your filters removed.

Use it from an AI agent

This Actor is a ready-made tool for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client, through Apify's MCP server. Add it as a connector at:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/news-scraper

In Cursor or VS Code the same address goes in mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/news-scraper" } } }

The first call asks you to sign in to Apify, or takes an API token. From then on the agent sees this Actor's input fields and calls it directly.

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