MSN All-in-One API

Unofficial, reverse-engineered wrapper around MSN's own public content API. Returns real-time news, weather, and finance data as structured JSON — no scraping, no HTML parsing, no login required.

What

A Standby REST API that proxies MSN's own backend for:

• News: personalized/general feed by market, feed filtered by one of 16 categories, full article detail (including complete article body text, not just a teaser), the category list itself, and article comments (full text, not just counts).
• Weather: current conditions, a 10-day forecast overview, 30-day weather trends, and location autosuggest (so you can resolve a place name to coordinates).
• Finance: bulk stock/index quotes, single-instrument quote detail (price, exchange info, related gainers/losers/indices), and static currency reference data.
• Sports: live/recent scores and schedules for major leagues, current standings, and league highlight videos.

Why

MSN aggregates licensed news from thousands of publishers along with weather and market data, all through one consistent API. This wrapper exposes that data as clean JSON for anyone who wants real-time headlines, full article text, or market/weather snapshots without building a scraper against MSN's web frontend.

How

This is a Standby Actor — it runs as a long-lived HTTP server, not a one-shot crawl. Send GET requests to its Standby URL with the query parameters documented below; each call returns JSON immediately.

Input

All parameters are passed as query string parameters on the request URL — there is no JSON input needed to start the Actor.

Route	Params	Description
GET /news/feed	market (e.g. en-us, id-id, de-de), nextPageUrl (optional, from a previous response, for pagination)	General/personalized news feed for a market.
GET /news/category	market, categoryId (the id field of a topic from /news/topics, e.g. Y_bced654c-...), nextPageUrl (optional)	News feed filtered to one category.
GET /news/article	market, id (an article id, e.g. AA2edOWm)	Full article detail, including the complete article body (HTML).
GET /news/topics	market	The list of available news categories and their ids.
GET /news/comments	market, id (article id), top (default 20), skip (default 0)	Real reader comments on an article (text, score, author, timestamp).
GET /weather/current	lat, lon, market	Current weather conditions for a location.
GET /weather/forecast	lat, lon, market, region (optional), days (default 10)	Multi-day forecast overview.
GET /weather/trends	lat, lon, market, days (default 30)	Monthly temperature/climate trend data.
GET /weather/location-search	q, market	Resolve a place name to coordinates and places/addresses/businesses.
GET /finance/quotes	ids (comma-separated MSN instrument ids)	Bulk real-time price quotes.
GET /finance/quote-detail	id, market	Full quote detail for one instrument: price, exchange, related gainers/losers/indices.
GET /finance/currencies	market	Static currency/country reference data.
GET /sports/scores	leagueId (e.g. IceHockey_NHL), sport (e.g. IceHockey)	Live and recently completed games for a league — scores by period, game state, broadcast channels, win probabilities.
GET /sports/standings	leagueId, seasonPhase (default regularSeason)	Current league standings/table.
GET /sports/schedule	leagueId, date (optional, YYYY-MM-DD, defaults to today)	Upcoming/past schedule for a league.
GET /sports/videos	leagueId	Recent highlight videos for a league.

League ids follow the {Sport}_{League} pattern, e.g. Football_NFL/Football, Soccer_EnglandPremierLeague/Soccer. 36 leagues across American football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and soccer (domestic leagues plus major international competitions) are live-verified and listed as an enum on the leagueId parameter — see the OpenAPI/Swagger UI for the full set.

Market codes follow MSN's own locale format (language-COUNTRY). 61 markets are live-verified and listed as an enum on the market parameter — see the OpenAPI/Swagger UI for the full set. Finance instrument ids are MSN's own opaque identifiers (not plain ticker symbols) — get them from /finance/quotes or /finance/quote-detail responses (e.g. the relatedIndices/active lists), or from MSN's own site.

Output

Each route returns MSN's own response JSON largely as-is — field names and shapes follow MSN's API directly, so the response is richer and more detailed than any fixed Apify Dataset schema could usefully flatten. See the Input table above for what each route's response contains.

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• apify-actor-start — flat fee per Actor Standby run.
• news-feed, news-article, news-topics, news-comments — one charge per call.
• weather-lookup — one charge per weather call.
• finance-lookup — one charge per instrument looked up (bulk /finance/quotes charges per id requested).
• sports-lookup — one charge per sports call.

Known limitations

• Article full-text and comments are only as complete as MSN's own backend serves them; some publishers' articles may have shorter bodies than others, and very new articles may have zero comments yet.
• Finance quote detail does not include historical price charts (MSN's own chart data endpoint behaves inconsistently outside a real browser session and was left out rather than ship something unreliable).
• /news/comments does not support posting — it is read-only, matching this Actor's read-only scope.
• Sports coverage depends on MSN's own league catalog; not every league/competition worldwide is available, and league ids must match MSN's own naming exactly (see the confirmed examples above).