MSN News Search Scraper
Under maintenancePricing
from $0.62 / 1,000 news item returneds
MSN News Search Scraper
Under maintenanceUnofficial wrapper around MSN's own public content API. Fetches MSN news feed and category listings as structured JSON.
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
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
market | string (select) | Yes | MSN locale/market code, e.g. en-us, en-gb, id-id, de-de, ja-jp. |
categoryId | string | No | A topic's id (e.g. Y_46b78bbb-...) from msn-news-topics-scraper. Omit for the general feed. |
maxItems | integer | No | Stop 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-scraperandmsn-news-comments-scraperfor 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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