Tech News Aggregator

Tech News Aggregator collects articles from TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, Wired, Engadget, and Hacker News in parallel — returning title, source, author, URL, publish time, and 500-char summary. Filter by keyword, source, and date. Deduplication included. No API key required. $0.001/article.

Six of the highest-signal tech news sources in one API call. Whether you're building a news dashboard, tracking a specific topic across the industry, or running automated competitive intelligence, this actor gives you a clean, normalized feed without RSS parsers or per-site scrapers.

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Why use Tech News Aggregator?

1. Topic monitoring across the industry — Set keyword: "AI" or "regulation" and get instant coverage from all six outlets simultaneously. Identify when a story crosses from niche to mainstream.
2. Competitive intelligence — Set keyword: "<competitor name>" to track when your competitors get press. High coverage frequency signals important product moves.
3. Newsletter and content curation — Pull since yesterday's articles and select the top-performing ones by engagement for a weekly roundup or Slack digest.
4. Research and analysis — Collect historical articles on a topic using since date ranges. Build structured datasets for sentiment analysis or trend research.
5. Hacker News signal extraction — HN frontpage items are community-curated, high-signal tech stories that mainstream outlets often pick up 24–48h later. Use it as an early warning system.

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How to use

1. Open the actor on Apify Store and click Try for free.
2. Set sources to the outlets you want (or leave blank for all 6).
3. Set keyword to filter by topic.
4. Set since to limit to recent articles (e.g. "2026-09-01").
5. Click Start. Returns deduplicated, sorted articles newest-first.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
sources	string[]	all 6	Sources to include (see table below)
keyword	string	—	Filter by keyword in title or summary (case-insensitive)
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum articles to return (1–500)
since	string	—	Only return articles after this ISO date (e.g. "2026-09-01")

Supported sources

Source	Coverage
TechCrunch	Startups, venture, enterprise tech
The Verge	Consumer tech, gadgets, Big Tech
Ars Technica	Deep-dive tech and science
Wired	Culture, policy, AI, future trends
Engadget	Consumer electronics, reviews
Hacker News	Community-curated frontpage (high signal)

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Output

{
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "title": "OpenAI launches new model with extended reasoning",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/openai-new-model/",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "published_at": "2026-09-01T14:30:00+00:00",
  "summary": "OpenAI today announced a new model that significantly improves reasoning capabilities across math, code, and complex analysis tasks..."
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
source	string	Publication name
title	string	Article headline
url	string	Direct article link
author	string	Author name (if available in feed)
published_at	string	ISO 8601 UTC publish time
summary	string	First 500 chars of description (HTML stripped)

Articles are returned sorted by published_at descending (newest first).

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Cost estimation

Pay-Per-Event: $0.001 per article returned.

Use case	Articles	Estimated cost
100 articles from all sources	100	$0.10/run
Daily topic monitoring (50 articles)	50	$0.05/day
500-article deep archive	500	$0.50/run
Hourly keyword alert (20 articles)	20	$0.02/run

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FAQ

Is there deduplication across sources? Yes — articles are deduplicated by URL before output. The same story won't appear twice even if multiple feeds carry it.

How current is the data? All six sources serve public RSS/Atom feeds. Most update within minutes of publication. Run the actor with since set to yesterday to get only new articles since your last run.

Does Hacker News work differently from the others? HN uses a community RSS feed (hnrss.org/frontpage) that reflects the current HN frontpage — high-signal, community-curated stories. The author field for HN reflects the submitter's username, not the original article author.

Can I add more sources? Not in the current version. The 6 sources cover the core tech news ecosystem. For crypto-specific news, see the Crypto News Sentiment Analyzer.

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RSS Sources

Source	Feed
TechCrunch	https://techcrunch.com/feed/
The Verge	https://www.theverge.com/rss/index.xml
Ars Technica	https://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
Wired	https://www.wired.com/feed/rss
Engadget	https://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
Hacker News	https://hnrss.org/frontpage

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Keywords: tech news, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, Wired, Engadget, Hacker News, news aggregator, technology news, keyword filter, content scraper, media monitoring