# News Scraper — Monitor News Articles & Headlines (`oneary/news-scraper`) Actor 📰 Scrape news articles from top publishers worldwide — extract headlines, full text, authors, publish dates, and featured images. Monitor breaking news, track industry coverage, and feed content aggregation platforms. Supports keyword search, domain filtering, and multi-language extraction - **URL**: https://apify.com/oneary/news-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Luan M.](https://apify.com/oneary) (community) - **Categories:** News - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $12.00 / 1,000 results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## News & Monitoring Scraper — Apify Actor Scrapes news articles from specified sources using **Playwright** (headless browser) and **Crawlee**, with content extraction via **Mozilla Readability**. Supports keyword filtering, deduplication, date range filtering, and optional full-text extraction. ### Features - **Playwright-powered** — handles JavaScript-rendered pages - **Smart extraction** — article title, author, date, category, content summary, and optional full text - **Keyword filtering** — only keep articles matching one or more keywords - **Date range filtering** — restrict by `dateFrom` / `dateTo` - **Deduplication** — URL-based dedup within a single run - **Keyword auto-extraction** — extracts relevant keywords from article content - **Proxy support** — integrates with Apify proxy for reliable scraping - **Multiple output formats** — JSON, CSV, or JSON array ### Input | Field | Type | Required | Default | Description | |-------|------|----------|---------|-------------| | `startUrls` | array | ✅ | — | One or more news article / index URLs to scrape | | `maxArticles` | integer | ❌ | `100` | Max articles to scrape (`0` = unlimited) | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | ❌ | Apify proxy on | Proxy settings | | `keywords` | array | ❌ | `[]` | Case-insensitive keyword whitelist (empty = keep all) | | `sources` | array | ❌ | `[]` | Descriptive source names (defaults to domain) | | `dateFrom` | string | ❌ | `""` | ISO date filter (e.g. `"2025-01-01"`) | | `dateTo` | string | ❌ | `""` | ISO date filter (e.g. `"2025-12-31"`) | | `includeFullText` | boolean | ❌ | `false` | Extract full article text via Readability | | `outputFormat` | string | ❌ | `"json"` | `json`, `csv`, or `jsonArray` | ### Output Each dataset item contains: | Field | Type | Description | |-------|------|-------------| | `title` | string | Article title | | `url` | string | Source URL | | `publishedDate` | string (ISO) \| null | Detected publish date | | `author` | string \| null | Detected author | | `contentSummary` | string | First 500 chars or meta description | | `fullText` | string \| null | Full article text (if `includeFullText` enabled) | | `source` | string | Source name or domain | | `category` | string \| null | Detected category/section | | `keywords` | array | Auto-extracted keywords | | `scrapedAt` | string (ISO) | Timestamp of scrape | ### Usage #### Local development ```bash npm install npm start ```` #### Environment variables - `APIFY_TOKEN` — Apify API token (for proxy & dataset access) ### Technical stack - **Node.js** (ESM) - **Crawlee** — crawling & request management - **Playwright** — headless browser - **@mozilla/readability** — article extraction - **jsdom** — DOM parsing for metadata - **Apify SDK** — proxy, dataset, platform integration ### License Apache-2.0 # Actor input Schema ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): List of news article or RSS feed URLs to start scraping from. Supports individual article pages and index/section pages. ## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of articles to scrape per actor run. Set to 0 for unlimited. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify proxy configuration for avoiding IP-based blocking. ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Only keep articles whose title or content contains at least one of these keywords (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep all articles. ## `sources` (type: `array`): Optional descriptive names for the sources being scraped (e.g. 'TechCrunch', 'Reuters'). Used to populate the `source` field in results. If empty, the domain name is used. ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Only keep articles published on or after this date (ISO 8601, e.g. '2025-01-01'). Parsed from article metadata where available. ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): Only keep articles published on or before this date (ISO 8601, e.g. '2025-12-31'). Parsed from article metadata where available. ## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`): If true, extract and include the full article text (via Mozilla Readability). If false, only the summary/description is included. ## `outputFormat` (type: `string`): Format of the output dataset. 'json' produces one JSON object per article. 'csv' produces a CSV file. 'jsonArray' produces a single JSON array. ## Actor input object example ```json { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/" } ], "maxArticles": 100, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "keywords": [], "sources": [], "includeFullText": false, "outputFormat": "json" } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/" } ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "keywords": [], "sources": [], "dateFrom": "", "dateTo": "" }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("oneary/news-scraper").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/" }], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, "keywords": [], "sources": [], "dateFrom": "", "dateTo": "", } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("oneary/news-scraper").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 '{ "startUrls": [ { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/" } ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "keywords": [], "sources": [], "dateFrom": "", "dateTo": "" }' | apify call oneary/news-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=oneary/news-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "News Scraper — Monitor News Articles & Headlines", "description": "📰 Scrape news articles from top publishers worldwide — extract headlines, full text, authors, publish dates, and featured images. Monitor breaking news, track industry coverage, and feed content aggregation platforms. 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Supports individual article pages and index/section pages.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "maxArticles": { "title": "Max articles", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of articles to scrape per actor run. Set to 0 for unlimited.", "default": 100 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Apify proxy configuration for avoiding IP-based blocking." }, "keywords": { "title": "Filter keywords", "type": "array", "description": "Only keep articles whose title or content contains at least one of these keywords (case-insensitive). Leave empty to keep all articles.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "sources": { "title": "Source names", "type": "array", "description": "Optional descriptive names for the sources being scraped (e.g. 'TechCrunch', 'Reuters'). Used to populate the `source` field in results. If empty, the domain name is used.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "dateFrom": { "title": "Date from", "type": "string", "description": "Only keep articles published on or after this date (ISO 8601, e.g. '2025-01-01'). Parsed from article metadata where available." }, "dateTo": { "title": "Date to", "type": "string", "description": "Only keep articles published on or before this date (ISO 8601, e.g. '2025-12-31'). Parsed from article metadata where available." }, "includeFullText": { "title": "Include full text", "type": "boolean", "description": "If true, extract and include the full article text (via Mozilla Readability). If false, only the summary/description is included.", "default": false }, "outputFormat": { "title": "Output format", "enum": [ "json", "csv", "jsonArray" ], "type": "string", "description": "Format of the output dataset. 'json' produces one JSON object per article. 'csv' produces a CSV file. 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