Bing News Scraper - Headlines, Publishers & Dates

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "Bing News" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Scrape Bing News for headlines across thousands of publishers — each with the publisher's real article URL, source name, snippet, publish time and image. No login, no API key.

Built for media monitoring, PR coverage tracking, brand mention alerts and news datasets for AI agents.

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No redirect to decode

Unlike Bing web search, news cards carry the publisher's actual article URL directly — bbc.com, forbes.com, electrek.co — not a bing.com/ck/a redirect. Every row is ready to fetch, cite or crawl. Measured: 30 of 30 articles returned a real publisher URL.

What you get

Field	What it is
title	Headline
url	The publisher's real article URL
publisher	Source name, e.g. "BBC on MSN", "Electrek"
domain	Publisher hostname
description	Article snippet
publishedText	Age as Bing shows it, e.g. 1d, 3h
publishedAt	Real ISO 8601 timestamp, converted from that age
imageUrl	Article thumbnail
rank, rankOnPage, page	Position in the results
query, market	What was searched, and where

Features

• Freshness filter — past day, week or month
• Market targeting — en-US, en-GB, de-DE, fr-FR…
• Domain exclusion — drop aggregators like msn.com and keep original publishers
• Roughly 10 articles per page, with pagination

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Example input

{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence", "electric vehicles"],
  "freshness": "day",
  "excludeDomains": ["msn.com"],
  "maxPagesPerQuery": 3,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Example output

{
  "type": "article",
  "title": "Artificial intelligence used to design brand new viruses",
  "url": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/artificial-intelligence-used-to-design-brand-new-viruses/ar-AA29xZlR",
  "publisher": "BBC on MSN",
  "domain": "msn.com",
  "description": "Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.",
  "publishedText": "1d",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-06T22:13:00.000Z",
  "rank": 1
}

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Pricing

$0.002 per article. You are charged only for rows actually delivered to your dataset.

Honest limits

• publishedAt is derived from Bing's relative age (1d, 3h), so it is accurate to the hour or day rather than the minute. Present on ~87% of articles — Bing omits the age on some clustered entries, and it is left null rather than guessed.
• News coverage is thinner than web search. A niche topic can genuinely return nothing; when that happens the run costs $0 and says so rather than blaming the proxy.
• Advanced operators (site:) are not served on this lane. Use plain topic keywords.
• Use the residential proxy (the default). Bing throttles per IP under volume.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

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

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/bing-news-scraper').call({
    "queries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ],
    "maxPagesPerQuery": 2,
    "maxResults": 40,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
});

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

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. You can call this Actor from Claude, ChatGPT or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server - describe the data you need and let the assistant run this Actor for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape Bing News? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See the Disclaimer below.

Is this an official Bing News tool? No. It is an independent, third-party Actor with no affiliation to, endorsement by or sponsorship from Microsoft Corporation. See the Disclaimer below.

Tips

• Schedule it with freshness: "day" and dedupe on url to build a rolling coverage dataset.
• Exclude msn.com if you want original publishers rather than syndicated copies.
• Group by publisher to see who is covering a story, and publishedAt to chart when it broke.

Related actors

• Bing Search Scraper — Bing web results with real destination URLs
• Bing Shopping Scraper — products, prices and sellers

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"Bing News" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official Bing News product, is not authorised or certified by Microsoft Corporation, and does not distribute Bing News software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.