# Bloomberg Home Feed Scraper (`romy/bloomberg-home-feed-scraper`) Actor

Get the regional curated Home feed from Bloomberg. Talks directly to Bloomberg's own mobile app API, no login needed. Split from the mature, published bloomberg-all-in-one-api for a focused, single-purpose workflow.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/bloomberg-home-feed-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Romy](https://apify.com/romy) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 94.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 feed region chargeds

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 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](https://apify.com/romy/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:

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

### Output

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

```json
{
    "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](https://apify.com/romy/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.

# Actor input Schema

## `regions` (type: `array`):

One or more Bloomberg app regions to fetch the Home feed for. Only these 6 values are confirmed live server-side — any other value (e.g. "us", "global", "apac", "emea") reliably 404s.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "regions": [
    "asia"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (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 = {
    "regions": [
        "asia"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("romy/bloomberg-home-feed-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "regions": ["asia"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("romy/bloomberg-home-feed-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "regions": [
    "asia"
  ]
}' |
apify call romy/bloomberg-home-feed-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/bloomberg-home-feed-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/GQShGuolYAPUkQcLf/builds/qZ8wyQA7oIY4ggvgv/openapi.json