# NBC News - Full Articles & Video, Fast & Fresh (`ryyos/nbcnews-news-scraper`) Actor

\[$0.8/1000] Pull fully enriched NBC News articles and videos straight from every section - full body text, authors, timestamps, taxonomy and every image/video URL ready to download, not just headlines.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ryyos/nbcnews-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Rio Dwi Saputra](https://apify.com/ryyos) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

**NBC News Scraper** pulls fully enriched articles and videos from every section of [nbcnews.com](https://www.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:

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `sections` (type: `array`):

Which NBC News sections to crawl. Leave at the default to cover every major section and local market on the site.

## `maxItemsPerSection` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of articles/videos to fetch full detail for, per section, on each run.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

nbcnews.com has not shown anti-bot blocking during testing, so this defaults off. Switch on Apify Proxy if you see failures.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sections": [
    "politics",
    "us-news",
    "world",
    "business",
    "health",
    "investigations",
    "culture-matters",
    "science",
    "tech-media",
    "sports",
    "asian-america",
    "nbcblk",
    "latino",
    "nbc-out",
    "new-york",
    "los-angeles",
    "chicago",
    "dallas-fort-worth",
    "philadelphia",
    "washington",
    "boston",
    "bay-area",
    "miami",
    "san-diego",
    "connecticut"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerSection": 30,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runInfo` (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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ryyos/nbcnews-news-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ryyos/nbcnews-news-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 ryyos/nbcnews-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ryyos/nbcnews-news-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 <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` 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/1gllDjmE9AfocX9rF/builds/s43ksCErQopxxtsAS/openapi.json