Bloomberg Media Scraper

What does Bloomberg Media Scraper do?

Bloomberg Media Scraper fetches the Media tab's trending video list, trending audio/podcast list, and live-TV schedule + currently-airing event detail for a chosen Bloomberg live-TV lineup — all four calls run in parallel and merged into a single dataset row per run.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official Bloomberg Android app uses (cdn-mobapi.bloomberg.com), reverse-engineered live against a real device with no API key or account needed. This is the media slice of Bloomberg All-in-One API, split out as its own focused Actor.

Why use Bloomberg Media Scraper?

• No auth, no signature, no session — confirmed live via a real device + Frida (bypassing the app's dual TLS cert pinning and root detection), then independently re-confirmed by calling the API directly from a plain server with no device involved. Only a fixed user-agent header is required.
• Genuinely hard-to-find traffic, confirmed real. This Media tab traffic (trending video/audio, live-TV schedule/event) is sent by the app over an already-open HTTP/1.1 keep-alive socket via a raw HTTP client, not through the usual OkHttp Request builder. Three independent traffic-capture methods — an HTTP-client Request-builder hook, a native connect() syscall hook, and raw tcpdump — all showed zero relevant requests. It only surfaced when hooking one layer deeper, at the TLS socket's plaintext write (Conscrypt's SSLOutputStream), before encryption. It is a real API call, not bundled local data.
• Four calls, one row — trending videos, trending audio, live schedule, and live event detail, fetched in parallel
• Use cases: media-tab monitoring, live-TV schedule tracking, trending content dashboards

Input

Field	Type	Description
lineup	string	Required. Live-TV lineup: ASIA_LINEUP or ASIA_EVENT_LINEUP. Default ASIA_LINEUP.
includeVideosTrending	boolean	Fetch the Media tab's trending video list. Default true.
includeAudiosTrending	boolean	Fetch the Media tab's trending audio/podcast list. Default true.
includeLiveSchedule	boolean	Fetch the upcoming/current live-TV show schedule for lineup. Default true.
includeLiveEvent	boolean	Fetch the currently-airing live-TV event detail for lineup. Default true.

Example:

{
    "lineup": "ASIA_LINEUP",
    "includeVideosTrending": true,
    "includeAudiosTrending": true,
    "includeLiveSchedule": true,
    "includeLiveEvent": true
}

Output

One dataset row per run:

{
    "lineup": "ASIA_LINEUP",
    "videosTrending": { "...": "trending video list" },
    "audiosTrending": { "...": "trending audio/podcast list" },
    "liveSchedule": { "...": "upcoming/current show schedule" },
    "liveEvent": { "...": "currently-airing event detail" }
}

A field is omitted (undefined) if its include* flag was set to false, or set to { "error": "..." } if that sub-call failed — a failure in one sub-call never crashes the whole run.

Known limitations

• Only ASIA_LINEUP and ASIA_EVENT_LINEUP are confirmed working lineup values. Other guessed names found in the app's bundled code (AUS_LINEUP, PHOENIX_US_LINEUP, POLITICS_LINEUP, PAN_EUROPE_EVENT) all return HTTP 400 upstream and are rejected before the request is even made.
• A failed sub-call (e.g. an unexpected 400/500, such as no currently-airing event) is captured as { "error": "..." } in that field rather than crashing the run.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0015 per media-snapshot result (FREE plan; BRONZE/SILVER/GOLD/PLATINUM/DIAMOND get automatic discounts based on your Apify plan). One billed event per run (a single dataset row).