# Yahoo News Scraper (`scrapeai/yahoo-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrapes news articles from Yahoo News Search (news.search.Yahoo.com). Extracts title, URL, source, snippet, thumbnail, publication date and more.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapeai/yahoo-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ScrapeAI](https://apify.com/scrapeai) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Yahoo News Scraper

A high-performance Apify Actor for searching and extracting live news articles from **Yahoo News** (`news.search.yahoo.com`). Extract headlines, direct/clean URLs, publishers, authors, snippets, full image thumbnails, publication dates, categories, and sponsorship status dynamically based on any search query.

***

### ⚡ Key Features

- 🔍 **Dynamic Keyword Search**: Scrape news for any topic, entity, company ticker, or keyword.
- 💎 **Richest Real-Time Metadata**: Extracts title, destination URL, source/publisher, author, article excerpt, high-res thumbnail, published time, category, and sponsorship tag.
- 🕒 **Time Recency Filtering**: Filter by past 24 hours (`1d`), past week (`7d`), or past month (`30d`).
- ⚡ **Sorting Options**: Sort by search relevance or newest first (`date`).
- 🌐 **International & Multilingual Support**: Custom country/region locale and language support.
- 🔄 **Smart Pagination**: Automatically traverses search result pages until your target `maxItems` is reached.
- 🛡️ **Anti-Bot & Proxy Ready**: Built with Playwright stealth navigation and Apify Proxy integration.

***

### 📋 Input Configuration

The Actor accepts input in JSON format. All fields are dynamically configurable:

| Parameter | Type | Default | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `query` | `string` | `"technology"` | **Yes** | Search term or phrase to search on Yahoo News. |
| `maxItems` | `integer` | `50` | No | Maximum number of articles to extract (1 to 500). |
| `timeRange` | `string` | `""` | No | Filter by recency: `""` (Any Time), `"1d"` (Past 24 Hours), `"7d"` (Past Week), `"30d"` (Past Month). |
| `sortBy` | `string` | `""` | No | Sort results: `""` (Relevance) or `"date"` (Newest first). |
| `country` | `string` | `"lang_en"` | No | Country / locale identifier (e.g., `lang_en`, `lang_de`, `lang_fr`, `us`). |
| `language` | `string` | `"en"` | No | Language code (e.g., `en`, `de`, `fr`, `es`). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | `object` | `{"useApifyProxy": true}` | No | Proxy settings. Residential proxy is recommended for high-volume scrapes. |

#### Example Input (`INPUT.json`)

```json
{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "timeRange": "7d",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "country": "lang_en",
  "language": "en"
}
```

***

### 📦 Output Dataset Schema

Each scraped news article produces a clean, structured JSON object:

```json
{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "D-Wave Quantum vs. Microsoft: Which Is the Better Quantum Computing Stock to Own...",
  "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/d-wave-quantum-vs-microsoft-075700700.html",
  "source": "Motley Fool · via Yahoo Finance",
  "author": null,
  "snippet": "Owning shares of Microsoft gives you exposure to quantum computing's potential without sacrificing...",
  "thumbnail": "https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/voXodaoRiBh1U_dJFRm63A--~C/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2ZpPWZpbGw7aD0xMDY7cHhvZmY9MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9ODA7c209MTt3PTE2MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/motleyfool.com/90b8193ea103c1408ea093ff77313a87.jpg",
  "publishedAt": "1 day ago",
  "category": "Markets",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "searchQuery": "quantum computing",
  "country": "lang_en",
  "language": "en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-20T11:57:02.548Z"
}
```

#### Output Field Descriptions

- **`position`** (`integer`): Result index in the search stream.
- **`title`** (`string`): Cleaned headline of the news article.
- **`url`** (`string`): Full link directly to the publisher or Yahoo News article.
- **`source`** (`string`): Original news organization / media provider name.
- **`author`** (`string` or `null`): Byline author if present on the search card.
- **`snippet`** (`string`): Article summary or excerpt.
- **`thumbnail`** (`string` or `null`): Direct URL to the article preview image.
- **`publishedAt`** (`string`): Publication timestamp (e.g. `"2 hours ago"`, `"1 day ago"`, ISO date).
- **`category`** (`string` or `null`): News category or vertical (e.g. `Markets`, `Technology`, `Politics`).
- **`isSponsored`** (`boolean`): Whether the article is marked as promoted / sponsored.
- **`searchQuery`** (`string`): The search query used for this scrape run.
- **`country`** (`string`): Country/locale code used in the search.
- **`language`** (`string`): Language code used in the search.
- **`scrapedAt`** (`string`): ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was extracted.

***

### 🚀 How to Run

#### 1. Locally

Ensure you have [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/) (v18+) installed:

```bash
## Clone the repository and install dependencies
npm install

## Run the scraper
npm start

## Validate generated datasets against the schema
npm test
```

#### 2. Apify CLI

```bash
## Run locally with Apify CLI
apify run

## Push and deploy to your Apify account
apify push
```

#### 3. Apify API (Node.js)

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN',
});

const run = await client.actor('YOUR_USERNAME/yahoo-news-scraper').call({
    query: 'electric vehicles',
    maxItems: 30,
    timeRange: '1d',
    sortBy: 'date',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);
```

#### 4. Apify API (Python)

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')

run_input = {
    "query": "space exploration",
    "maxItems": 25,
    "timeRange": "7d",
    "sortBy": "date"
}

run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/yahoo-news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"[{item['publishedAt']}] {item['title']} - {item['url']}")
```

***

### 💡 Practical Use Cases

- **Media & PR Monitoring**: Track brand mentions, PR releases, and media presence across international publishers.
- **Market & Financial Intelligence**: Stream breaking news for stock tickers, commodities, cryptos, and industries.
- **AI & NLP Training**: Ingest up-to-the-minute real news headlines for LLM retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and sentiment models.
- **Content Aggregation**: Power automated newsletters, Slack/Discord bots, and RSS-style newsfeeds.

***

### 📄 License

ISC

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

The news search query on Yahoo News.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of news articles to scrape.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Yahoo language/country code (e.g. 'lang\_en', 'lang\_de', 'lang\_fr').

## `language` (type: `string`):

Yahoo language code (e.g. 'en', 'de', 'fr').

## `timeRange` (type: `string`):

Filter news by recency.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort news results by relevance or date.

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

Proxy settings. Residential proxies recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "technology",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "country": "lang_en",
  "language": "en",
  "timeRange": "",
  "sortBy": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped news articles

# 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 = {
    "query": "technology",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "country": "lang_en",
    "language": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapeai/yahoo-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 = {
    "query": "technology",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "country": "lang_en",
    "language": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapeai/yahoo-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 '{
  "query": "technology",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "country": "lang_en",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call scrapeai/yahoo-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapeai/yahoo-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/pcwFRcgl0PXhwa6py/builds/v2q85qV0P9xJcxVNl/openapi.json