NBC News All-in-One API

What does NBC News All-in-One API do?

NBC News All-in-One API is a REST endpoint for NBC News's live data — category content feeds (Home, Politics, U.S. News, World, Business, Sports, Health, Science, Culture & Trends, Discover), full-text search with real pagination, video/live listings, and audio/podcast stations. All from a single always-on API powered by Apify Standby.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official NBC News Android app uses (mobileapi.nbcnews.com), reverse-engineered by live MITM capture against a real device — every endpoint below is a real REST call the app itself sends (captured live, never guessed). No NBC News account, no API key, no scraping setup — call the endpoint, get JSON back. Every endpoint works fully anonymously (confirmed by inspecting real request headers — no Authorization header, no cookie, no session token needed).

Why use NBC News All-in-One API?

• 10 real category feeds — Home, Politics, U.S. News, World, Business, Sports, Health, Science, Culture & Trends, and a curated Discover feed
• Real, working pagination on search — confirmed live against the app's own "Load more" button, with a real total-results count
• Video & audio listings — the app's Watch and Listen tabs, including live station data (audio backed by TuneIn)
• Always-on — Standby mode means no cold start, responds in milliseconds
• No account needed — every endpoint works fully anonymously
• Zero competition — this is the only NBC News data API on Apify Store at the time of writing
• Use cases: news aggregation, media monitoring, politics/business tracking bots, content pipelines

Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	/news	Content feed for one category (Home, Politics, U.S. News, ...)
GET	/search	Full-text search across articles and videos, with pagination
GET	/watch	Video and live-stream listing
GET	/listen	Audio/podcast station listing

How to use NBC News All-in-One API

1. Open this Actor's Standby API URL (shown on the Actor's page, under the API tab).
2. Call any endpoint — for example:

   curl "https://romy--nbc-news-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/news?category=cover"
   curl "https://romy--nbc-news-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/news?category=us-news"
   curl "https://romy--nbc-news-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/search?query=trump&page=1"
   curl "https://romy--nbc-news-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/watch"
   curl "https://romy--nbc-news-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/listen"
   

   Every call needs your Apify API token, either as Authorization: Bearer <token> or ?token=<token> — the Actor's page API tab has a ready-to-copy version with your token filled in.
3. Read the JSON response — no setup required.

Parameters

GET /news — category required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
category	enum	cover	cover (Home) | discover | politics | us-news | world-news | business | sports | health | science | culture-matters. Any other real category id also works, not restricted to this list.

GET /search — query required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
query	string	trump	Search text
page	int, default 1	1	1-indexed page number — real pagination, confirmed via the app's "Load more"

GET /watch — no parameters.

GET /listen — no parameters.

Output

Every response is returned directly over HTTP — this Actor does not write to an Apify dataset. Responses pass through NBC News's own real (deeply nested) JSON data. Real responses (trimmed to the most relevant fields for readability):

GET /news?category=cover:

{
    "success": true,
    "feed": {
        "data": [
            {
                "type": "SnackMenu",
                "items": [
                    { "id": "curation/mobile/news/politics", "header": "Politics" },
                    { "id": "curation/mobile/news/us-news", "header": "U.S. News" }
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "taxonomy/nbcnews/section/news/us-news",
                "header": "U.S. News",
                "items": [
                    {
                        "id": "rcna593612",
                        "type": "article",
                        "headline": "16-year-old Tennessee girl runs on field and tackles football player mid-game",
                        "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/16-year-old-tennessee-girl-runs-field-tackles-football-player-game-cha-rcna593612",
                        "published": "2026-08-20T20:13:00Z"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}

GET /search?query=trump&page=1:

{
    "success": true,
    "results": {
        "id": "search",
        "pagination": { "totalItems": 101566 },
        "items": [
            {
                "id": "mmvo268610117573",
                "type": "video",
                "headline": "'I am not running for president,' Attorney General Todd Blanche says",
                "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/...",
                "published": "2026-08-20T20:36:44Z",
                "duration": "00:05:24"
            }
        ]
    }
}

GET /listen:

{
    "success": true,
    "stations": {
        "liveSections": [
            {
                "header": "Listen Live",
                "streams": [{ "station": "NBC News NOW", "description": "Breaking News and In-Depth Analysis" }]
            }
        ]
    }
}

Data notes

• /news's category list is confirmed real, not guessed — captured live from the cover feed's own navigation menu, which returns the exact list of category ids the app itself links to.
• /search's page param is real, working pagination — confirmed by tapping the app's own "Load more" button and observing page 1 vs page 2 return genuinely different results. This is different from /news, which has none.
• sort exists on the underlying search endpoint but does nothing — confirmed live by comparing results across several values, including a nonsense one, all returning identical date-descending order. Deliberately not exposed here since a parameter with zero real effect would be misleading.
• Article full-text isn't retrievable through this API. Every item includes a url field pointing to the real nbcnews.com article/video page — this Actor doesn't scrape that page's HTML, only the app's own structured metadata (headline, image, published date, category, etc). See Known limitations.
• The app itself has a confirmed navigation bug in the exact build researched, where tapping most category-tagged content (on both Home and Search) opens a blank page — reproduced live and confirmed to be a pure client-side bug, not a network issue, by calling the same underlying endpoint directly and getting full data back every time. Doesn't affect this Actor since it calls the API directly.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, billed on each successful call. Tiered by your Apify plan (Free/Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum/Diamond) — see the Actor's Pricing tab for your exact rate.

Event	Free tier price
news	$0.003
search	$0.004
watch	$0.003
listen	$0.002

Known limitations

• No dedicated article-detail endpoint was found. /news and /search return rich metadata (headline, image, summary, published date, category) but not full article body text — each item's url field points to the real NBC News website if you need the full text.
• This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by NBC News or NBCUniversal. Behavior may change if NBC News changes its API.

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's page.