News API - Article Search, Headlines, Sentiment, NewsCatcher

Search and export news articles from 140,000+ publishers worldwide, with NLP theme, sentiment and named entities, straight into an Apify dataset using your own NewsCatcher News API key.

This actor wraps the NewsCatcher News API v3. It turns a keyword or Boolean query, an author, a list of article URLs or a set of filters into clean, deduplicated rows you can download as JSON, CSV or Excel, schedule, or feed into other actors and AI agents.

What it does

• News article search: keywords, exact phrases and Boolean queries (AND, OR, NOT, wildcards) across titles, content, AI summaries or English translations.
• Latest headlines: the newest articles in a time window such as the last 24 hours or 7 days, by language, country, publisher or theme.
• Breaking news: stories with a sudden spike in coverage, each with its top articles and article count.
• Articles by author: everything a journalist published, matched on the exact byline.
• Articles by URL or ID: look up full article records for links you already have.
• News sources: the publisher catalogue with country, rank, domain type, news type, robots.txt compliance and 7 day volume.
• Article counts over time: how many articles matched a query per hour, day or month, for media monitoring and trend charts.
• NLP filters: theme (Business, Finance, Tech, Politics and 12 more), title and content sentiment from -1 to 1, organizations, people, locations and other entities mentioned.
• Publisher filters: languages, publisher countries, domains, curated top sources per country, source rank, opinion pieces, home page headlines, word count, full text only, duplicates and robots.txt compliance.
• Pay only for results: empty searches are recorded as a free row that says why, never charged.

Input

Field	Used by	What it does
mode	all	search, latestHeadlines, breakingNews, authors, articlesByLink, sources or articleCounts
queries	search, counts	One query per line, read separately. Boolean syntax supported
searchIn	search, counts	Title and content (default), title, content, summary or translated fields
authorNames	authors	Exact bylines, one per line
articleLinks, articleIds	URL or ID	Articles to look up, sent 25 to a request
from, to	search, authors, URL or ID, counts	Dates such as 2026-01-31, date-times, or relative values such as 30d or 3 days ago
when	latest headlines	Time window such as 24h, 7d or 30d
languages, countries, sourceDomains, predefinedSources	most modes	Language codes, publisher countries, domains, or values such as top 50 US
sortBy	article modes	Relevance, newest first, or highest ranked sources first
themes, organizations, people, locations, sentiment ranges	NLP modes	Filters on the provider's NLP enrichment
includeNlpData	article modes	Adds theme, summary, sentiment and entities (on by default)
topArticlesPerEvent	breaking news	1 to 100 top articles per event
aggregationBy	counts	Per hour, day or month
maxResults	all	Row ceiling for the run, across all queries
apiKey	all	Your News API key (secret). Or set the DATA_API_KEY environment secret

Inputs a mode does not use are left off the request and named in the log, so a wrong filter never silently empties your results.

Example output

{
    "mode": "search",
    "recordType": "article",
    "identifier": "\"artificial intelligence\" AND regulation",
    "found": true,
    "id": "93b554adf9bf7feb5fc70be8209f8fc9",
    "title": "EU lawmakers agree on next steps for AI rules",
    "url": "https://www.example-news.com/tech/eu-ai-rules",
    "date": "2026-10-06 14:32:00",
    "source": "example-news.com",
    "author": "Jane Doe",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "BE",
    "value": 1840,
    "theme": "Tech, Politics",
    "summary": "European lawmakers reached a provisional deal on ...",
    "titleSentiment": 0.12,
    "contentSentiment": -0.05,
    "description": "Negotiators agreed on ...",
    "content": "Full article text where the publisher makes it public ...",
    "word_count": 812,
    "is_opinion": false,
    "robots_compliant": true,
    "nlp": { "theme": "Tech, Politics", "ner_ORG": [{ "entity_name": "European Commission", "count": 3 }] },
    "note": null
}

Every field the provider returns is kept. value is the publisher rank for articles, the article count for breaking news events and time frames, and the rank for sources.

FAQ

What is the NewsCatcher News API?

The NewsCatcher News API is a commercial news data API that indexes articles from more than 140,000 news sources in over 100 countries and enriches them with NLP: theme classification, sentiment, named entity recognition, summaries, deduplication and clustering. This actor calls its v3 endpoints /api/search, /api/latest_headlines, /api/breaking_news, /api/authors, /api/search_by_link, /api/sources and /api/aggregation_count.

Do I need my own API key?

Yes. This actor is bring your own key: you need an active News API subscription from NewsCatcher (plans are sold through their sales team, with NLP, IPTC Tags and Embeddings tiers). Your key is stored as an Apify secret, sent only in the x-api-token header, and removed from every log line. Without a key the run stops immediately with a clear message and no charge.

How do I search news by keyword or Boolean query?

Choose Article search and enter one query per line, for example "electric vehicles" AND (Tesla OR BYD) NOT recall. Use double quotes for exact phrases, * for wildcards, and + or - to require or exclude a word. Separate words are joined with AND automatically.

How many articles can I get?

Pages of up to 1,000 articles are read until your maxResults ceiling. The News API returns at most 10,000 results for one query, so for larger backfills run several queries over shorter date windows. How far back you can search depends on your plan's historical days.

Can I filter by sentiment, company or person?

Yes, on NLP plans. Set title or content sentiment ranges from -1 to 1, pick themes, or list organizations, people, locations or other entities the article must mention. NLP enrichment covers articles indexed from July 2023 onward.

What do I pay?

The actor charges per returned record: 0.01 USD per news article, 0.015 USD per breaking news event with its top articles, 0.005 USD per news source and 0.005 USD per article count time frame, with Apify platform usage included. Empty results are free. NewsCatcher bills your API subscription separately; each page is one API call against your plan's monthly call quota.

What happens if my key is wrong or my plan does not cover a request?

A rejected key (401), a request outside your plan such as a date range older than your historical days (403), or a used up call quota ends the run cleanly with the provider's own explanation as the status message. Rate limits (429, too many concurrent calls) are retried automatically.

Keyword map

news API, news search API, news articles API, latest headlines API, breaking news API, news sentiment analysis, media monitoring, news data export, NewsCatcher API, news scraper alternative, news by author, news source list, article volume over time, named entity news search.

Terms and data use

You need your own News API subscription, and your use of the data is governed by your agreement with NewsCatcher. Their terms grant a non-transferable licence for the subscriber's own use, describe the service as for internal use, forbid making it available to third parties or building competing services, and leave clearing publisher copyright for article content to the subscriber. Article text belongs to the original publishers: check your licence before republishing content, and consider the robots.txt compliant filter. This actor is an independent tool and is not made or endorsed by NewsCatcher.