# Nbc News Feed Scraper (`romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper`) Actor Get category content feeds — the only dedicated NBC News actor on the Store from Nbc News. Talks directly to NBC News' own mobile app API, no login needed. Split from the mature, published nbc-news-all-in-one-api for a focused, single-purpose workflow. - **URL**: https://apify.com/romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Romy](https://apify.com/romy) (community) - **Categories:** News - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.60 / 1,000 news item chargeds This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md. ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run. For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below. Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`). # README ### 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](https://www.nbcnews.com/) 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](https://apify.com/romy/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](https://apify.com/romy/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: ```json { "categories": ["cover", "politics", "us-news"] } ``` ### Output One dataset row per requested category: ```json { "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](https://apify.com/romy/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` ($0.002 on the FREE plan) once per category feed pushed. See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates. # Actor input Schema ## `categories` (type: `array`): One or more NBC News category ids. Known real categories: cover (Home), discover (Discover), politics (Politics), us-news (U.S. News), world-news (World), business (Business), sports (Sports), health (Health), science (Science), culture-matters (Culture & Trends). Any other real curation/mobile/news/\* category id also works — not restricted to this list. ## Actor input object example ```json { "categories": [ "cover" ] } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `dataset` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "categories": [ "cover" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "categories": ["cover"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}") for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "categories": [ "cover" ] }' | apify call romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/nbc-news-feed-scraper" } } } ``` The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer ` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations). ## OpenAPI specification Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/kAkfPifrMviWLVsua/builds/csoTIaZijHPwU8iQG/openapi.json