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MSN News Search Scraper

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MSN News Search Scraper

MSN News Search Scraper

Under maintenance

Unofficial wrapper around MSN's own public content API. Fetches MSN news feed and category listings as structured JSON.

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from $0.62 / 1,000 news item returneds

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Romy

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Unofficial, reverse-engineered wrapper around MSN's own public content API. Browses the news feed, optionally filtered to one category, as structured JSON — one dataset row per news item.

What

Pushes MSN's general/top-stories feed, or a feed filtered to one category, to the dataset — headline, summary, thumbnail, publish date, source, and a direct link. For full article text or comments, feed each item's id into msn-news-detail-scraper or msn-news-comments-scraper.

Why

A quick way to pull a real-time stream of MSN headlines by market/category without maintaining your own scraper against MSN's web frontend.

Input

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
marketstring (select)YesMSN locale/market code, e.g. en-us, en-gb, id-id, de-de, ja-jp.
categoryIdstringNoA topic's id (e.g. Y_46b78bbb-...) from msn-news-topics-scraper. Omit for the general feed.
maxItemsintegerNoStop after this many items. Omit to fetch everything available.

Output

One dataset row per news item:

{
"id": "AA2edOWm",
"type": "article",
"title": "...",
"abstract": "...",
"url": "https://www.msn.com/...",
"readTimeMin": 5,
"publishedDateTime": "2026-10-14T13:33:48Z",
"providerName": "Newsweek",
"imageUrl": "https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/...",
"market": "en-us",
"categoryId": null
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event: news-item — one charge per item pushed.

Known limitations

  • This is a feed/listing scraper only — no full article body or comments. Use msn-news-detail-scraper and msn-news-comments-scraper for those.
  • Feed pagination follows MSN's own feed depth; very old items may not be reachable.
  • This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation. Behavior may change if MSN changes its API.

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