New York Times News Scraper — Headlines, Summaries & RSS Metadata

Media monitors and AI agents extract one structured New York Times dataset row per article — headline, summary, authors, keywords, image, publish time, and canonical URL — from public RSS sections, with optional official Developer API search and public Open Graph URL enrich. Built for monitoring workflows on Apify with API, schedules, and MCP.

The New York Times is a trademark of its owner. This independent Actor is not affiliated with, associated with, or endorsed by The New York Times Company.

Best fit for this Actor

• Build a daily briefing from public NYT Home, Business, Technology, Politics, and related RSS sections.
• Keep only articles that match keyword or recency filters before the primary event charge.
• Enrich known nytimes.com article URLs from public Open Graph and meta tags when HTML is reachable.
• Optionally add free NYT Article Search or Top Stories API metadata when an owner NYT_API_KEY is configured.

When you need multi-publisher Google News coverage across many outlets from one keyword, continue with Google News Scraper. When you need Bloomberg section headlines from Bloomberg’s public news index, continue with Bloomberg News Scraper.

Practical scenario

A PR analyst selects sections Business and Technology, sets maxItems to 25, and leaves keyword filters empty. The dataset returns article rows with headline, summary, authors, publish time, keywords, image, and canonical URL. They export CSV for the morning brief and schedule the same input. When they later want only AI-related stories, they add searchKeywords: ["AI"] so non-matching feed items drop before the article-found charge. Empty keyword matches finish SUCCEEDED with VALID_EMPTY and no article event. Missing sources that need an API key finish with outcome CONFIG_ERROR so charges stay tied to real rows.

Quick start input

{
  "sections": ["HomePage", "Business"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Input reference

Field	Type	What it controls
sections	array	NYT RSS sections such as HomePage, Business, Technology, Politics. Prefill HomePage + Business.
searchKeywords	array	Optional contains-match on headline, summary, or keywords.
articleUrls	array	Optional nytimes.com URLs for public OG/meta enrich.
searchQuery	string	Optional Article Search API query. Needs owner NYT_API_KEY.
topStoriesSections	array	Optional Top Stories API sections. Needs owner key.
sinceHours	integer	Optional recency window in hours. 0 keeps all current feed items.
maxItems	integer	Cap 1–500. Default 50, prefill 10.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify proxy. RSS usually works without one.

What data you receive

One dataset item is one public NYT article metadata row.

{
  "title": "In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind",
  "summary": "As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week…",
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-economy.html",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/business/china-ai-economy.html",
  "authors": ["Li Yuan"],
  "publishedAt": "<iso8601>",
  "section": "Technology",
  "keywords": ["Artificial Intelligence", "China"],
  "imageUrl": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/example.jpg",
  "textAvailability": "RSS_SUMMARY",
  "sourceMode": "rss",
  "bodyText": null,
  "scrapedAt": "<iso8601>"
}

Field	Meaning
title / summary	Headline and public RSS/API/OG summary
url / canonicalUrl	Canonical nytimes.com article link
authors / publishedAt	Byline and publish time when exposed
section / keywords	Section label and topic tags
imageUrl / imageCredit	Lead image and credit when present
textAvailability / sourceMode	Provenance: RSS summary, API abstract, public snippet, or paywalled marker
bodyText	Reserved null field; subscription full text stays out of this product

OUTPUT and RUN_SUMMARY in the default key-value store hold outcome, itemsPushed, and chargedEventCounts. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Use through the API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/khadinakbar~scrape-nytimes-news/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sections":["HomePage","Business"],"maxItems":10}'

Use with AI agents through Apify MCP

Scrape NYT Technology and Business RSS for up to 10 articles matching AI. Return title, url, summary, authors, publishedAt, keywords, textAvailability, and sourceMode. Read OUTPUT.outcome and itemsPushed. Treat VALID_EMPTY as a real empty match set.

Connect via https://mcp.apify.com. Cost signal: about $0.003 per saved article plus platform usage.

Connect the workflow

• When you need multi-publisher keyword news across many outlets, continue with Google News Scraper.
• When you need Bloomberg section headlines, continue with Bloomberg News Scraper.

Pricing

This Actor uses Pay per event plus Apify platform usage. The live Pricing tab is the current source of truth for billing details.

Event	Price
apify-actor-start	$0.00005
article-found (primary)	$0.003

Invalid input and empty matches skip the article-found event. Platform usage for compute and optional proxy is billed to the run user.

Scope and responsible use

This product surfaces public RSS and API metadata for lawful monitoring, research, and agent workflows. Subscription-only full article body stays outside scope. Users remain responsible for complying with New York Times terms and any commercial licensing needs for their redistribution or training use case.

Design note

In my testing, public NYT RSS was the reliable path: rich titles, summaries, bylines, media, and keywords over plain HTTP without a browser. I found the top-level Sports feed chronically empty, so Sports maps to the live Baseball RSS while Baseball, Soccer, Tennis, and Golf stay selectable directly. I designed official Developer APIs as optional and metadata-only — useful for search, never a full-text substitute. Charging after a durable dataset write keeps empty and config-miss outcomes honest for Store health.

Support

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