Bing News Scraper - Brand & Competitor Monitoring

Scrape Bing News in bulk by search query and get clean, structured article data. Fast, reliable, no API key.

Drop in your search terms and get back matching Bing News articles: title, source, publish date, snippet, and link. Built for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, market research, media alerts, and content pipelines.

Works out of the box: reads Bing News public RSS feeds. No API key, login, browser, or proxy needed for normal volumes.

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What it does

For each search query, the Actor reads Bing News search RSS and extracts structured article data. Output is one row per article, deduplicated across all queries.

Use it as a Bing News API alternative for monitoring brands, competitors, industries, tickers, executives, and topics.

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Who it's for

• PR & comms teams - monitor brand, executives, crisis topics, and competitor coverage.
• Market researchers & analysts - track an industry, ticker, or theme over time.
• Content & SEO teams - find current news angles and publisher sources.
• Journalists - sweep a beat across many search queries.
• Builders - pipe a structured Bing News feed into dashboards, alerts, or AI workflows.

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Popular use cases

• Brand monitoring - track mentions of your company, products, founders, and executives.
• Competitor news tracking - monitor launches, funding, hiring, lawsuits, partnerships, and pricing changes.
• Industry trend monitoring - follow themes like AI regulation, climate tech, fintech, or healthcare policy.
• Stock and market news feeds - collect recent Bing News results for tickers, companies, and sectors.
• PR and crisis alerts - schedule searches around sensitive topics and export fresh coverage.
• Cross-source monitoring - pair with Google News Scraper to compare coverage across search engines.

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Ready-to-run task ideas

Brand News Monitoring

{
  "queriesText": "your brand name\nyour ceo name\nyour main competitor\nyour product line",
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}

Competitor Launch Tracker

{
  "queries": [
    "competitor funding",
    "competitor product launch",
    "competitor partnership",
    "competitor acquisition"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

AI Industry News Feed

{
  "queries": [
    "artificial intelligence regulation",
    "generative AI startups",
    "AI search engines",
    "large language models"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

Stock Market News Monitor

{
  "queries": [
    "Nvidia stock news",
    "Tesla stock news",
    "Microsoft earnings",
    "Federal Reserve interest rates"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true
}

Crisis & PR Alert Feed

{
  "queries": [
    "\"your brand\" lawsuit",
    "\"your brand\" outage",
    "\"your brand\" data breach",
    "\"your brand\" controversy"
  ],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50,
  "dedupe": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 2
}

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	-	Search terms
queriesText	string	-	Queries as text, one per line or comma-separated
geo	string	"US"	Country code used to build Bing market, e.g. US, GB, CA, FR, DE
language	string	"en"	Language code used to build Bing market, e.g. en, fr, es, de
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	50	Cap per query
maxQueries	integer	100	Max search queries
dedupe	boolean	true	Remove duplicate articles across queries
requestDelayMs	integer	500	Delay between feed requests
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel feed requests
proxyConfiguration	object	-	Optional, for high volume

At least one of queries or queriesText is required.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "climate tech", "interest rates"],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 50
}

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Output

One dataset row per article:

{
  "query": "openai",
  "queryType": "search",
  "title": "OpenAI ships new model and tools",
  "bingNewsUrl": "https://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?...",
  "articleUrl": "https://www.theverge.com/openai...",
  "source": "The Verge",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T14:30:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "OpenAI ships new model The Verge",
  "guid": "ABC123",
  "position": 1,
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-06-18T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Key-value store outputs

• HEADLINES_BY_SOURCE - article titles grouped by publisher
• SUMMARY - totals, top sources, top queries by volume
• ERRORS - any failed feeds

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Notes & limitations

• bingNewsUrl is the Bing News result link returned by the RSS feed.
• articleUrl is decoded from Bing's result link when Bing includes the publisher URL.
• Bing News RSS favors recent coverage and is not a full historical archive.
• Results are localized by geo + language, combined into Bing market values such as en-US.
• For very high volume or repeated scheduled runs, enable Apify Proxy to reduce rate-limit risk.
• Public RSS data only: no login, paywalled content, or private content.

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Related tools

• Google News Scraper - monitor Google News by keyword.
• Google AI Overview Tracker - track brand visibility and citations in AI Overviews.
• Google Autocomplete Keyword Scraper - collect keyword suggestions.

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Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.