Bing News Scraper

Extract Bing News search results with detailed article metadata such as headline, direct URL, publisher name, summary snippet, thumbnail image, topic category, and publication timestamp.

Features

• Keyword search — find news articles by topic, brand, person, or event
• Article extraction — collect title, URL, snippet, source/publisher, and publication date
• Thumbnail support — extract article preview images when available
• Category detection — capture article categories such as business, sports, tech, entertainment, and more
• Time filtering — narrow results by latest news, past 24 hours, week, or month
• Automatic pagination — collect news across multiple result pages
• Structured JSON output — clean, machine-readable data for analytics and monitoring
• Cloud-ready — runs on Apify with scheduling, proxy rotation, dataset storage, API access, and webhook support

Extracted Data

• Title — news headline
• URL — direct article link
• Source / Publisher — news outlet name
• Snippet — article preview text
• Thumbnail — preview image URL
• Category — article topic classification
• Publication date — article publish timestamp
• Ranking position — result order in Bing News

Use Cases

• News aggregation platforms
• Brand mention tracking and PR monitoring
• Competitor news intelligence
• Market trend analysis
• Event monitoring and alerts
• Building structured news datasets for research or AI training

Input

Field	Type	Default	Required	Description
query	string	—	✓	The news search query.
maxItems	integer	50		Maximum number of news articles to scrape.
sortBy	string	date		Sort news results by date or relevance. Options: date, relevance
timeRange	string	any		Filter news by how recent they are. Options: any, day, week, month
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Residential		Proxy settings. Residential proxy is strongly recommended

Example Output

{
	"position": 1,
	"title": "Artificial Intelligence News Live: New study ranks generative AI models on user privacy protections",
	"url": "https://www.moneycontrol.com/world/artificial-intelligence-news-live-updates-25-06-2025-alpha-liveblog-13173840.html",
	"source": "source_value",
	"snippet": "Welcome to our live blog tracking the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence. Stay updated with real-time insights ...",
	"thumbnail": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=ONUT.sRbsDRPvnoeKmad5QJpvfA&pid=News&w=234&h=132&c=14&rs=2&qlt=90",
	"category": "category_value",
	"isBreaking": "isBreaking_value",
	"relatedCount": "relatedCount_value",
	"isPaywall": "isPaywall_value",
	"publishedAt": "2026-06-22T08:15:35.396Z",
	"query": "artificial intelligence",
	"scrapedAt": "2026-06-22T08:27:35.408Z"
}