News Monitor

Multi-source public headline digest: open BBC / Guardian / NYT world RSS plus Hacker News. Key-free, no login. Output: one JSON item per headline (source, title, link, published, snippet), deduped.

What you get

Every run writes a dataset with one row per record:

{
  "source": "guardian",
  "title": "Iran\u2019s economy in crisis as US launches new sanctions campaign",
  "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/31/iran-economy-crisis-usa-launches-sanctions-inflation-trump",
  "published": "Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:00:26",
  "snippet": "<p>Trump\u2019s Operation Economic Outcast is expected to push many Iranians into deeper poverty as food inflation soars</p><p>For many Iranians, the new US sanctions campaign, called Operation Economic Ou"
}

Input

{
  "keyword": "economy",
  "max": 10
}

Field	Type	Description
keyword	string	Keyword: the keyword parameter. Default: "economy".
max	integer	Max: the max parameter. Default: 10.

Use cases

• Monitor on a schedule — run this Actor on a timer and get a fresh, normalized snapshot every time; diff the datasets to see what changed.
• Feed a dashboard or model — clean, one-JSON-item-per-record output is ready to pipe into a spreadsheet, database, or LLM prompt without any post-processing.
• Research & due diligence — pull a structured set of records for a topic, name, or window without scraping the public source by hand.

Limits & notes

• No API key, no login: it only reads public endpoints/feeds. If the upstream source is degraded, the run still succeeds and returns an honest status item instead of failing.
• Results reflect what the public source returned at run time (top-N windows, newest-first where applicable).
• Pay-per-event via synthetic events: each default-dataset item is billed through apify-default-dataset-item ($0.001 per item), plus apify-actor-start.
• Free to try on the free plan; PPE pricing applies to paid-plan users.

Categories

NEWS, MARKETING