📰 AP News Scraper — Breaking News Headlines & Links from the Associated Press

Pull the current front-page story list from Associated Press (apnews.com) — headline slug, canonical article URL, source and scrape timestamp — on demand or on a schedule. Built for PR, comms, media-monitoring teams and AI agents.

What you get

One record per article, four fields:

• title — headline text derived from the AP article slug
• url — canonical https://apnews.com/article/... URL
• source — always "AP News"
• scrapedAt — UTC timestamp of the run

That is the complete output. This actor returns the front-page article index; it does not download article bodies, bylines, sections, tags, images or word counts.

Pricing

Pay-per-event — no monthly minimum:

• Actor start: $0.00005 per run (per GB of run memory)
• Result: $0.02 per article delivered to the dataset — about 50 articles per $1

Examples: 20 articles ≈ $0.40 · 100 articles ≈ $2.00 · a daily 20-article monitor ≈ $12 / month.

You are charged only for rows that land in your dataset. Blocked runs and retries deliver no rows and charge nothing.

Quick start

Input:

{
  "maxArticles": 20
}

Example output (one record, real shape):

{
  "title": "Jobs Unemployment Layoffs Economy Immigration",
  "url": "https://apnews.com/article/jobs-unemployment-layoffs-economy-immigration-870187fe5c6f0c43a5b53eaffb86b7b0",
  "source": "AP News",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-05T09:20:11.412030"
}

Run this as a news feed

Schedule it (e.g. cron 0 * * * *) and each run returns the AP front page as it stands at that moment.

Run outcomes

• Rows returned — the run succeeds and you are charged per row.
• Source blocked, challenged, or unreadable — the run fails with a status message naming the cause. No rows, no charge.
• The actor never writes status, error or placeholder rows into the dataset.

Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull AP headlines on demand.

Related news & media actors

PR Newswire · Business Wire · GlobeNewswire · PRWeb · EIN Presswire · Brand Mention Monitor · News MCP Server

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes buyer-intent actors across news, filings, lead generation and market data — all pay-per-result. Browse the catalog at apify.com/nexgendata.

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Data from apnews.com, fetched live at run time.