# Nbc News Watch Listen Scraper (`romy/nbc-news-watch-listen-scraper`) Actor Get video/live-stream and podcast station listings 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-watch-listen-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 $1.20 / 1,000 listing 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 Watch & Listen Scraper do? **NBC News Watch & Listen Scraper** fetches NBC News's video/live-stream listing (the app's Watch tab) and audio/podcast station listing (the app's Listen tab, backed by TuneIn) in a single batch run — one row pushed per feed. It talks directly to the same internal 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 — both calls below are real REST requests the app itself sends (captured live, never guessed). No NBC News account, no API key, no scraping setup. This is the Watch/Listen 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 Watch & Listen Scraper? - **Real listings, straight from the app's own API** — no HTML scraping, no guessed endpoints - **Two feeds in one run** — video/live streams and audio/podcast stations, each optional - **No account needed** — both reads work fully anonymously (confirmed by inspecting real request headers — no Authorization header, no cookie) - **Use cases:** media monitoring, content pipelines, tracking NBC News's live station lineup ### How it connects to the parent This Actor is a narrow spin-off of [NBC News All-in-One API](https://apify.com/romy/nbc-news-all-in-one-api), which exposes NBC News's full internal API (category feeds, search, watch, listen) as an always-on Standby REST endpoint. This Actor covers only `/watch` and `/listen`, run as a plain batch Actor that pushes results to the dataset instead of serving them over HTTP. For category feeds or full-text search, use the parent Actor. ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | | --------------- | ------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `includeWatch` | boolean | `true` | Fetch the video & live-stream listing (the app's Watch tab). | | `includeListen` | boolean | `true` | Fetch the audio/podcast station listing (the app's Listen tab, backed by TuneIn). | At least one of the two must be `true`. Example: ```json { "includeWatch": true, "includeListen": true } ``` ### Output One dataset row per feed. Each row's `listing`/`stations` field is NBC News's own real (deeply nested) JSON, passed through as-is. Watch (`{ "type": "watch", "listing": { ... } }`, trimmed example): ```json { "type": "watch", "listing": { "success": true, "feed": { "data": [ { "id": "curation/mobile/news/watch-v2", "header": "Watch", "items": [ { "id": "mmvo268610117573", "type": "video", "headline": "NBC Nightly News full broadcast", "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/...", "duration": "00:20:24" } ] } ] } } } ``` Listen (`{ "type": "listen", "stations": { ... } }`, real trimmed example from the parent Actor): ```json { "type": "listen", "stations": { "success": true, "stations": { "liveSections": [ { "header": "Listen Live", "streams": [{ "station": "NBC News NOW", "description": "Breaking News and In-Depth Analysis" }] } ] } } } ``` ### Known limitations - Both `/watch` and `/listen` are static listings — no pagination or filtering parameters exist on either underlying endpoint. - Category feeds and full-text search are not covered here — use [NBC News All-in-One API](https://apify.com/romy/nbc-news-all-in-one-api) for those. - 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 `listing` ($0.002 on the FREE plan) once per dataset row pushed (up to 2 rows per run — one per feed requested). See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates. Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's page. # Actor input Schema ## `includeWatch` (type: `boolean`): Fetch the video & live-stream listing (the app's Watch tab). ## `includeListen` (type: `boolean`): Fetch the audio/podcast station listing (the app's Listen tab, backed by TuneIn). ## Actor input object example ```json { "includeWatch": true, "includeListen": true } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `dataset` (type: `string`): No description # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = {}; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("romy/nbc-news-watch-listen-scraper").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${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 = {} # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("romy/nbc-news-watch-listen-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 '{}' | apify call romy/nbc-news-watch-listen-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,romy/nbc-news-watch-listen-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/jPucDaLOULOzAgP4F/builds/0ZTPtH7fz5iuR5Bst/openapi.json