Bloomberg Home Feed Scraper

What does Bloomberg Home Feed Scraper do?

Bloomberg Home Feed Scraper fetches Bloomberg's curated regional Home feed — the same modules (top stories, videos, markets snapshots) the official Bloomberg Android app shows on its Home tab — for one or more regions in a single run, and pushes one dataset row per region.

It talks directly to the internal API the Bloomberg Android app uses (cdn-mobapi.bloomberg.com), reverse-engineered by live device capture. No Bloomberg account, API key, or scraping setup required. This is the Home-feed slice of Bloomberg All-in-One API, split out as its own focused Actor.

Why use Bloomberg Home Feed Scraper?

• Real API, not bundled data or a WebView — this exact traffic hid from three separate capture methods (an HTTP-client-class hook, a native connect() syscall hook, and raw tcpdump all showed zero relevant requests). It only surfaced one layer deeper, at the TLS socket's plaintext write, before encryption — because the app sends this request over an already-open HTTP/1.1 keep-alive socket via a raw HTTP client, not through its usual OkHttp Request builder. Once found, it turned out to be a genuine server-side API call, not client-bundled content.
• No auth needed — no API key, login, or session token; only a fixed user-agent header identifying the app.
• Multiple regions in one run — pass an array of regions and get each region's feed as its own dataset row, fetched in parallel.
• Use cases: regional news monitoring, editorial-curation tracking, market-snapshot dashboards, content aggregation.

Input

Field	Type	Description
regions	string[]	One or more regions to fetch. Required. Only africa, asia, canada, europe, latam, uk are confirmed live; see below.

Example:

{
    "regions": ["asia", "europe"]
}

Output

One dataset row per region, each with the raw upstream feed payload:

{
    "region": "asia",
    "feed": {
        "modules": [
            {
                "type": "topStories",
                "items": [{ "id": "...", "headline": "...", "summary": "..." }]
            },
            { "type": "video", "items": [] },
            { "type": "markets", "items": [] }
        ]
    }
}

The exact shape of feed is whatever Bloomberg's server returns for that region — it is not normalized or filtered by this Actor.

Known limitations

• Only 6 confirmed-working regions — africa, asia, canada, europe, latam, uk. This is not a free-form field: other plausible-looking values (us, global, apac, emea, etc.) reliably 404 server-side rather than silently falling back to a default region.
• Topic/category feeds (Technology, Politics, etc. under the app's Menu) are confirmed WebView-rendered, not an API call, and are out of scope for this Actor and its parent.
• This Actor only fetches the Home feed. For per-security data, search, article bodies, and more, see Bloomberg All-in-One API.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0015 per feed-region result (FREE plan; BRONZE/SILVER/GOLD/PLATINUM/DIAMOND get automatic discounts based on your Apify plan). Billed per region processed.