📰 News Across the Web Scraper

🚀 All-in-one bundle: queries 7 sources in one run. Semafor, Axios, Medium, The Intercept, The Verge, TechCrunch, Wired.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-27 · 📊 10 fields per article · 7 publications · global tech & politics coverage

News Across the Web Scraper is a single combo Actor that pulls fresh headlines from seven major publications in parallel and returns one unified dataset. Each article is tagged with its source so newsrooms, researchers, and content aggregators can build cross-publication briefings without juggling seven RSS readers.

The bundle covers Semafor (front-page), Axios (RSS), Medium (Towards Data Science feed), The Intercept (RSS), The Verge (Atom), TechCrunch (RSS), and Wired (RSS).

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
News aggregators	Cross-publication briefings
Media monitoring teams	Brand and keyword surveillance
Researchers	Topic discovery across outlets
Content marketers	Trend spotting

📋 What this Scraper does

• Hits each publication's public RSS/Atom/HTML feed in parallel.
• Extracts title, URL, author, publication date, summary, categories, image.
• Normalizes into one schema with a source field.
• Optional query substring filter on title and summary.

💡 Why it matters: seven feeds, one schema, one schedule - perfect for daily digests.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Optional case-insensitive substring filter
sources	array	Subset of the 7 publications
maxItems	integer	Free: 10 · Paid: up to 1,000,000
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy config

{ "maxItems": 50 }

{ "query": "ai", "sources": ["techcrunch", "wired", "theverge"], "maxItems": 100 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Medium's free RSS only exposes ~10 latest articles per feed.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	string	Hero image when published in the feed
🌐 source	string	Publication slug
📌 title	string	Headline
🔗 url	string	Article URL
✍️ author	string	Byline
📅 publishedAt	string	Publication date
📝 summary	string	First 500-1000 chars of description/content
🏷️ categories	array	Tags / categories
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp
❌ error	string	Populated only on failure

✨ Why choose this Actor

📰 Seven publications, one schema	One Actor, one dataset
⚡ Parallel fetch	Promise.allSettled keeps slow feeds from blocking fast ones
🌍 Public data only	No accounts, no API keys
📥 tabular / spreadsheet / tabular / tabular	Native Apify pull

📈 How it compares to alternatives

	This Actor	Per-source actors	Paid news APIs
Inputs	1	7	1
Free tier	✅ 10 items	✅	❌
No API key	✅	✅	❌

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
2. Open the Actor and pick which publications to query.
3. Optional: set query to filter by keyword.
4. Run and pull tabular/spreadsheet/tabular/tabular.
5. Schedule hourly or daily for fresh feeds.

💼 Business use cases

Media monitoring

Track brand or executive mentions across major tech and politics outlets.

Daily briefings

Generate a single morning digest from seven publications.

Content marketing

Spot trending topics before competitors do.

Sentiment research

Build cross-publication corpora.

🔌 Automating this Scraper

Use Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, Webhooks.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Cross-publication framing analysis.

Personal

Build your own minimalist news reader.

Non-profit

Track coverage of civic-tech and watchdog stories.

Experimentation

Train LLM summarizers on diverse outlets.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pipe the dataset into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot and ask "summarize today's AI coverage across The Verge, TechCrunch and Wired."

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is this real-time? A: As real-time as each source's RSS update cadence.

Q: Do you store article text? A: Only the summary/description published in the feed.

Q: Can I get full article body? A: Not in this Actor; use a dedicated article-parser actor downstream.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: Fetched on each run from live feeds.

Q: Are paywalled publications included? A: Only public feeds. Paywalled bodies are not bypassed.

Q: Will you add more outlets? A: Yes - request via the contact form.

Q: Does it deduplicate? A: No, raw items per source. De-dupe downstream by url.

Q: Schema stable? A: Yes, fields are guaranteed even if null.

Q: Free limits? A: 10 items per run for free users.

Q: Languages? A: All seven feeds are English.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Drive, GitHub, Webhooks, REST API, n8n.

🔗 Recommended Actors

Actor	What it does
Semafor Articles	Semafor only
Axios Articles	Axios only
Medium Publication Articles	Medium only
The Intercept Articles	The Intercept only
Verge / TechCrunch / Wired	Tech-trio RSS only

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with any publication. Only publicly available feeds are collected.