Nbc News Feed Scraper

What does NBC News Feed Scraper do?

NBC News Feed Scraper pulls NBC News's category content feed — Home, Politics, U.S. News, World, Business, Sports, Health, Science, Culture & Trends, and Discover — for one or more categories in a single run, pushing one dataset row per category.

It talks directly to the same internal REST API the official NBC News Android app uses (mobileapi.nbcnews.com), reverse-engineered by live MITM capture against a real device — a real endpoint the app itself calls (captured live, never guessed). No NBC News account, no API key, no scraping setup. This is the /news slice of NBC News All-in-One API, split out as its own focused Actor.

Why use NBC News Feed Scraper?

• 10 real category feeds — Home, Politics, U.S. News, World, Business, Sports, Health, Science, Culture & Trends, and a curated Discover feed, plus any other real category id the app supports
• One run, many categories — request any combination of categories in a single call, each landing as its own dataset row
• No account needed — every read here works fully anonymously, confirmed by inspecting real captured request headers (no auth token, no cookie)
• Use cases: news aggregation, media monitoring, politics/business tracking bots, content pipelines

How it connects to the parent Actor

NBC News All-in-One API is an always-on Standby API covering NBC News's full endpoint set (/news, /search, /watch, /listen). This Actor is a narrow, single-purpose spin-off that covers only /news — the category content feed — packaged as a plain Actor run (input in, dataset out) rather than an HTTP API, for anyone who just wants category feeds without setting up Standby calls.

Input

Field	Type	Description
categories	string[]	One or more NBC News category ids. Required, non-empty. See table below for the 10 known real categories — any other real curation/mobile/news/* category id also works, not restricted to this list.

Known categories:

Category id	Maps to
cover	Home
politics	Politics
us-news	U.S. News
world-news	World
business	Business
sports	Sports
health	Health
science	Science
culture-matters	Culture & Trends
discover	Discover

Example:

{
    "categories": ["cover", "politics", "us-news"]
}

Output

One dataset row per requested category:

{
    "category": "cover",
    "feed": {
        "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"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

Known limitations

• No pagination exists for this endpoint — confirmed live. Each category returns a fixed feed, there is no "load more" or page parameter.
• No article full-text. Each 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). For full-text or other NBC News data (search, watch, listen), see the parent NBC News All-in-One API.
• 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.

Pricing

Pay per event. Charged news-item ($0.002 on the FREE plan) once per category feed pushed. See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates.