Startpage News Scraper — News SERPs, Publishers & Monitoring

Startpage News Scraper extracts news SERPs from startpage.com, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Search. Use it for media monitoring, reputation tracking, trend research, and competitive intelligence; collect headlines, article URLs, summaries, publishers, dates, images, and rankings for export in JSON, CSV, or Excel, or access them via API.

🤖 What does Startpage News Scraper do?

• Article discovery — collect headlines, destination URLs, display URLs, and summaries.
• Source tracking — identify publishers and publication dates.
• Visual context — capture thumbnail URLs and dimensions when available.
• Ranking context — retain overall position, result page, and page-level position.
• Anonymous View links — collect privacy-viewing links when Startpage provides them.
• Search targeting — control region, language, Safe Search, time period, and result count.

Great for: brand monitoring, PR reporting, news research, issue tracking, and competitive intelligence.

SEO keywords: startpage.com news scraper, news SERP scraper, Google Search alternative, news monitoring API alternative, headline extractor, Apify actor.

💡 Why scrape Startpage news?

• 📰 Monitor coverage — follow brands, executives, products, competitors, or events.
• ⏱️ Spot emerging stories — use recent time filters to identify new reporting quickly.
• 📣 Measure visibility — compare which publishers and articles rank around a topic.
• 📊 Build reports — export structured headlines, dates, sources, and summaries.
• 🌍 Compare markets — examine how coverage changes across regions and languages.

🚀 How to use

1. Add the actor — open Startpage News Scraper in Apify Store.
2. Enter queries — add one or more companies, people, products, industries, or events.
3. Set maxItems — choose a limit and optional regional or recency filters.
4. Run the actor — click Run or trigger it through an Apify integration.
5. Download results — export the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or another supported format.

📝 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
queries	String array	Yes	News search keywords. Each query is paginated before the next starts.
maxItems	Integer	Yes	Maximum news results to save across all queries. Set 0 for unlimited. Minimum 0; prefilled with 10.
region	String	No	Preferred result region. Choose all or a supported locale such as en_US, fr_FR, or de_DE. Default all.
language	String	No	Preferred result language selected from 82 Startpage-supported languages. Default english.
safeSearch	String	No	Explicit-content filtering: strict · moderate · off. Default moderate.
timePeriod	String	No	Recency filter: any · day · week · month · year. Default any.

Daily industry monitoring

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence regulation", "AI safety policy"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "region": "en_US",
  "language": "english",
  "safeSearch": "moderate",
  "timePeriod": "day"
}

European brand coverage

{
  "queries": ["electric vehicle battery investment"],
  "maxItems": 250,
  "region": "de_DE",
  "language": "deutsch",
  "safeSearch": "strict",
  "timePeriod": "month"
}

📊 Output Results

Each Dataset item can contain:

• query, position, page, pagePosition — search and ranking context.
• title — article headline.
• url — destination article URL.
• displayUrl — URL displayed in the result.
• description — article summary returned by Startpage.
• publisher — news source name.
• published — publication date.
• thumbnailUrl (conditional) — preview image URL.
• imageWidth, imageHeight (conditional) — preview dimensions in pixels.
• anonymousViewUrl (conditional) — Startpage Anonymous View link.

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence regulation",
  "position": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pagePosition": 1,
  "title": "New artificial intelligence rules enter final review",
  "url": "https://www.example.com/technology/ai-rules-final-review",
  "displayUrl": "https://www.example.com/technology/ai-rules-final-review",
  "description": "Regulators published updated guidance for companies developing and deploying AI systems.",
  "publisher": "Example News",
  "published": "2026-07-15",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ONUT.example&pid=News",
  "imageWidth": 1024,
  "imageHeight": 576,
  "anonymousViewUrl": "https://browse.startpage.com/anonymous/example"
}

🧭 Common Recipes

• Daily media brief: use timePeriod="day" and schedule the actor every morning.
• Brand reputation tracking: search a brand plus product, executive, or issue terms.
• Publisher analysis: collect 100–250 results and group them by publisher.
• Regional comparison: repeat the same query across target region and language values.

⚙️ Best Practices

• News indexes change quickly; save run timestamps in your downstream monitoring workflow.
• Publication metadata, summaries, and thumbnails may be absent for some articles.
• Keep queries, region, language, and time filters stable when comparing coverage over time.
• Review source articles before drawing conclusions from snippets alone.

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Considerations

• Review Startpage's terms and each publisher's usage policies.
• Respect copyright, quotation limits, and attribution requirements.
• Handle names and other personal information under applicable privacy laws.
• Keep request volumes reasonable and avoid disrupting publishers or search services.
• Verify important claims against the full source article before publishing analysis.

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Startpage or the publishers represented in results. All trademarks and articles belong to their respective owners.

❓ FAQ

Does the actor scrape the full article text?

No. It collects the news search result, summary, source, image metadata, and article link.

Why are some publisher or image fields missing?

Those fields are conditional and depend on the metadata Startpage returns for each story.

Can I monitor news automatically?

Yes. Schedule recurring runs and compare URLs, headlines, publishers, and dates in your preferred storage workflow.

Which time period should I use?

Use day for fast-moving stories, week for a briefing, and month or year for broader research.

🛟 Support

Need another news field, filter, or reporting workflow? Contact the developer at https://igolaizola.com/#contact or https://t.me/igolaizola.