NBC News - Full Articles & Video, Fast & Fresh

NBC News Scraper pulls fully enriched articles and videos from every section of nbcnews.com - not just headlines and summaries, but the complete story: full body text, byline authors, publish/update timestamps, topic tags, and every image and video on the page as a directly-downloadable URL. Point it at any combination of NBC News' 25 sections - national politics, world, business, health, science, tech, sports, identity/interest verticals like NBCBLK and NBC Out, and every local city market from New York to the Bay Area - and it returns clean, structured JSON for each article and video it finds. Run it ad-hoc from the Apify Console or API, schedule it to run daily, and pipe results straight into a spreadsheet, database, or downstream pipeline via Apify's built-in integrations.

Why use NBC News Scraper?

• Full detail, not teasers. Every item is opened and scraped completely - full article body text, every embedded image and video in a directly-downloadable format, byline authors with job titles, and topic taxonomy - not just what shows on a section listing page.
• Monitor breaking news programmatically. Schedule runs to track how NBC News covers a topic over time, build a news aggregator, or feed a research/analytics pipeline.
• Video-aware. NBC News publishes both articles and standalone video segments across its sections. This Actor returns both, with video items including direct MP4/HLS stream URLs, all resolution variants, and duration.
• 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 Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Start if you already have an Apify account).
2. On the Input tab, pick which sections to crawl (or leave the default to cover all of them) and set how many items to fetch full detail for per section.
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
sections	array	Which NBC News section slugs to crawl (e.g. politics, world, new-york). Defaults to every section.
maxItemsPerSection	integer	Maximum number of articles/videos to fetch full detail for, per section, per run. Default 30.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy configuration. Off by default - nbcnews.com has not shown anti-bot blocking during testing.

See the Input tab for the full schema with defaults.

Output

Each dataset item is one article or video, for example:

{
  "itemType": "article",
  "itemId": "rcna592856",
  "section": "us-news",
  "headline": "Actor Hayden Panettiere dies at 36",
  "description": "Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive Sunday at an apartment complex...",
  "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/actor-hayden-panettiere-dies-36-rcna592856",
  "authors": [{ "name": "Erik Ortiz", "jobTitle": "Senior Reporter", "authorType": "author" }],
  "datePublished": "2026-08-17T19:50:22.612Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-18T00:00:51.415Z",
  "taxonomy": ["Pop culture", "Obituaries"],
  "bodyText": "Actor Hayden Panettiere, who was known for roles in television's...",
  "images": [{ "url": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/...jpg", "caption": "Hayden Panettiere in 2009.", "width": 2500, "height": 1667 }],
  "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
section	Section slug the item was discovered under
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?

This Actor is priced per 1,000 results (see the Actor's pricing tag on this page). A typical run covering a handful of sections with maxItemsPerSection 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

• Narrow sections to just what you need and keep maxItemsPerSection modest for frequent scheduled runs - you can always widen it for a one-off deep crawl.
• Combine with the companion NBC News Keyword Search Scraper Actor to pull every article matching a specific search term instead of browsing by section.

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.