Blogs Search Scraper

Apify actor that searches blog posts by keyword and exports them as structured data. It queries two sources per keyword, with no browser and no API keys:

• WordPress.com / Jetpack blogs — full-text keyword search via the public WordPress.com Reader search API (public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1.1/read/search). Covers millions of WordPress.com-hosted and Jetpack-connected self-hosted blogs.
• Medium — the latest posts tagged with the keyword, via Medium's public tag RSS feed (medium.com/feed/tag/<keyword>).

Results from all keywords and sources are combined and de-duplicated by post URL.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword/phrase to search. Several keywords can be pasted one per line. query is accepted as an alias.
queries	array	Multiple keywords — each searched separately.
maxItems	integer	Max posts per keyword per source (default 20, max 100).
sources	array	["wordpress", "medium"] (default both).
timePeriod	string	Recency window, e.g. 1d, 7d, 4w, 3m, 1y. Older posts are dropped. Empty = no restriction.
language	string	Accepted for input compatibility with the other search actors; currently a no-op.

Output

One dataset item per blog post:

{
    "title": "The Bizarre World of Artificial Intelligence!",
    "description": "Plain-text excerpt of the post (≤500 chars)...",
    "blogUrl": "http://storyempire.com/2026/08/06/the-bizarre-world-of-artificial-intelligence/",
    "articleUrl": "http://storyempire.com/2026/08/06/the-bizarre-world-of-artificial-intelligence/",
    "author": "Beem Weeks",
    "source": "Story Empire",
    "sourceUrl": "http://storyempire.com",
    "publishedAt": "2026-08-06T04:05:59.000Z",
    "publishedAtRaw": "2026-08-06T00:05:59-04:00",
    "image": "https://.../featured.jpg",
    "blogPlatform": "wordpress",
    "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-12T13:30:00.000Z"
}

articleUrl is an alias of blogUrl kept for output-shape compatibility with the google-news-scraper actor, so downstream consumers can treat both datasets the same way.

Local run

npm install
echo '{ "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence", "maxItems": 5 }' > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
npm start

Deploy

Push to Apify as outspoken_strategy/blogs-search-scraper (e.g. apify push, or via the console's GitHub integration like the other outspoken_strategy/* actors).