# GOV.UK Press Release Feed — official search API (`nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed`) Actor

GOV.UK Press Release Feed — official search API

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGen Watch](https://apify.com/nexgenwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $33.50 / 1,000 press-release records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## GOV.UK Press Release Feed — official search API

Pull the most recent **press releases** from the official **GOV.UK search API**
(`www.gov.uk/api/search.json`), filtered by government organisation and/or keywords.
Each result is returned as a clean record — title, publication timestamp, organisation,
summary and a link to the release on GOV.UK — ready for a media-monitoring, policy or
comms pipeline.

### Input

```json
{ "organisations": ["hm-treasury"], "keywords": "", "count": 20 }
```

`organisations` are GOV.UK org slugs (e.g. `hm-treasury`, `department-for-transport`);
leave empty for all of government. `keywords` is an optional free-text query. `count` is
how many of the most recent releases to return (1–200).

### Pricing

| Event | FREE | BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actor start (`apify-actor-start`) | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.02 |
| Press-release record (`release-record`) | $0.05 | $0.045 | $0.04 | $0.0335 |

Prices are the filed pay-per-event amounts per plan tier (PLATINUM/DIAMOND match GOLD).
One charge per delivered release. A successful query that matches nothing delivers zero
records and charges nothing; only a source outage fails the run loudly.

### Source

The official GOV.UK search API, queried anonymously (no key), with a contact User-Agent.

# Actor input Schema

## `organisations` (type: `array`):

GOV.UK organisation slugs to filter by, e.g. hm-treasury, department-for-transport. Leave empty for all of government.

## `keywords` (type: `string`):

Optional free-text query.

## `count` (type: `integer`):

How many of the most recent press releases to return (1-200).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "organisations": [
    "hm-treasury"
  ],
  "keywords": "",
  "count": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "organisations": [
        "hm-treasury"
    ],
    "count": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "organisations": ["hm-treasury"],
    "count": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "organisations": [
    "hm-treasury"
  ],
  "count": 20
}' |
apify call nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgenwatch/govuk-press-release-feed",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/BrbH4xHZbc5bYO47h/builds/4Q0Y6RdivvOpwFgwo/openapi.json