NBC News Keyword Search

NBC News Keyword Search Scraper searches nbcnews.com for any keyword or phrase and returns full detail for every matching article and video - not just the title and snippet you'd see on a search results page, but the complete story: full body text, byline authors, publish/update timestamps, topic tags, and every image and video as a directly-downloadable URL. Give it a query, get back clean structured JSON for every match. Run it ad-hoc, schedule it to track a topic over time, and pipe results into a spreadsheet, database, or pipeline via Apify's built-in integrations.

Why use NBC News Keyword Search Scraper?

• Track any topic across NBC News' full archive. Search runs against NBC News' own site-search index, covering years of published content, not just recent articles.
• Full detail per result, automatically. Every search hit is opened and scraped completely, reusing the same enrichment as the companion NBC News Scraper - no need to feed URLs into a second tool.
• Great for monitoring and research. Schedule a query to run daily and catch every new article/video matching a brand, person, or story as it's published.
• No local setup. Runs entirely on Apify's infrastructure with built-in scheduling, monitoring, retries, and proxy support if you ever need it.

How to use NBC News Keyword Search Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Start if you already have an Apify account).
2. On the Input tab, enter your search query and set maxResults.
3. Click Start and watch the run progress in real time.
4. Once finished, open the Output tab to preview results, or export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or via the API.

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Free-text keyword or phrase to search NBC News for. Required.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of search results to fetch full detail for. Default 30.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Off by default.

See the Input tab for the full schema with defaults.

Output

Each dataset item is one matching article or video, in the same enriched shape as the companion NBC News Scraper, tagged with the searchQuery it matched:

{
  "itemType": "article",
  "itemId": "rcna592887",
  "searchQuery": "trump",
  "headline": "Supreme Court turns away Trump's latest bid to block E. Jean Carroll award",
  "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-declines-trump-appeal-e-jean-carroll-award-rcna592887",
  "authors": [{ "name": "Lawrence Hurley", "jobTitle": "Supreme Court Reporter", "authorType": "author" }],
  "datePublished": "2026-08-17T18:52:51.000Z",
  "taxonomy": ["Politics", "Supreme Court"],
  "bodyText": "WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday declined for a second time...",
  "images": [{ "url": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/...jpg" }],
  "videos": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T08:00:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
itemType	article or video
itemId	NBC News' internal content ID
searchQuery	The keyword/phrase this item matched
headline, description	Title and summary
url	Canonical item URL
authors	Byline authors (articles only) with name, job title, author type
datePublished, dateModified, dateCreated	ISO-8601 timestamps
taxonomy	Named topic tags
bodyText	Full plain-text article body (articles only)
images	Every image, with direct URL, caption, alt text, dimensions
videos	Every video, with direct MP4/HLS URL, all format variants, duration

How much does it cost to scrape NBC News search results?

This Actor is priced per 1,000 results (see the Actor's pricing tag on this page). A typical run with maxResults at its default of 30 costs a small fraction of a dollar. Apify's free tier includes credits you can use to try it before committing to a paid plan.

Tips

• Keep maxResults modest for frequent scheduled monitoring runs; widen it for a one-off deep pull of everything NBC News has published on a topic.
• Combine with the companion NBC News Scraper Actor to also browse full sections instead of searching by keyword.

FAQ & disclaimers

This Actor only extracts data that nbcnews.com already serves publicly to any visitor's browser - no login, paywall bypass, or private data is involved. It is intended for research, monitoring, and analytics use; respect NBC News' own Terms of Service for how you use the extracted data. Found a bug or need a custom field? Use the Issues tab on this Actor's page - custom modifications are also available on request.