📰 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.

📊 Sample Output

title	url	source	scrapedAt
Israel Palestinians Abbas Netanyahu	https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-abbas-netanyahu-848e9b…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507034
Hurricane Polo Mexico Nolo Hawaii	https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-polo-mexico-nolo-hawaii-a036e08f…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507055
Netanyahu Trump United Nations Israel Gaza Elections West Bank	https://apnews.com/article/netanyahu-trump-united-nations-israel-gaza…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507064
Trump Media Ban Judge Ruling Cnn Msnow Politico	https://apnews.com/article/trump-media-ban-judge-ruling-cnn-msnow-pol…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507077
Sheriff Ballots Seized California Supreme Court	https://apnews.com/article/sheriff-ballots-seized-california-supreme-…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507085
Kratom Mississippi Deaths Students	https://apnews.com/article/kratom-mississippi-deaths-students-5c4d642…	AP News	2026-09-25T03:24:02.507093

Real rows from run wljE0xlMEZdL1R89J on build 0.0.39 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
maxArticles	integer	20	Maximum number of articles to scrape from the apnews.com front page. Each delivered article is one billable dataset item.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run wljE0xlMEZdL1R89J (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "title": "Israel Palestinians Abbas Netanyahu",
  "url": "https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-abbas-netanyahu-848e9bb0bb2c7a2a05f04be2dc4cb845",
  "source": "AP News",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-25T03:24:02.507034"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
News article (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.02	Single result in the default dataset.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.02 = $2.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData Press releases & news family:

• Business Wire Press Releases Scraper — Media API
• EIN Presswire Press Releases Scraper — Media API
• GlobeNewswire Press Releases Scraper — Media API

4 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

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.