# Channel News Asia News Scraper (`scrapyx/channelnewsasia-news-scraper`) Actor

Fetches Channel News Asia's latest articles from its public Google News syndication feed -- headline, publish time, lead image and the FULL article body (HTML and plain text), not just a summary.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapyx/channelnewsasia-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ibnu Adzim](https://apify.com/scrapyx) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.70 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Channel News Asia News Scraper

Fetches Channel News Asia's latest articles from its public Google News
syndication feed. Unlike this NEWS family's other actors, this one returns
the **full article body**, not just a short summary.

### What you get

One `SEARCH_SUMMARY` row plus one `ARTICLE` row per article, most-recent-first:

- `articleTitle`, `articleUrl`, `articlePublishedAt` (clean ISO 8601)
- `articleBodyHtml` -- the full article body, upstream's own HTML (figures/images included)
- `articleBodyText` -- the same content with markup stripped, for a plain-text read
- `articleLeadImageUrl` -- the first image found in the body

### Coverage: current feed, not a historical archive

This feed is a rolling snapshot of Channel News Asia's latest ~50
articles. Recon found no working page/offset parameter (`?page=2` and
`?offset=50` both answered with a byte length within noise of the
unparameterized call -- i.e. ignored, not honored), so this actor does not
offer one. Run it on a schedule if you want an accumulating archive;
`articleUrl` is a stable id for de-duplicating downstream.

### Filtering

`keywords` is applied **client-side**, after the fetch (case-insensitive
substring match against title + body text, OR-combined). The feed has no
server-side search, so this is this actor's own post-filter, documented
here so it isn't mistaken for a real query parameter.

### No WAF, no auth

The feed answered clean on every TLS profile tested (chrome124,
firefox133, safari17\_0, chrome99\_android), cold, no warmup. robots.txt
blanket-disallows `/api/*` but explicitly carves out
`Allow: /api/v1/google-news-feed` -- this endpoint exists specifically for
syndication and is meant to be fetched by exactly this kind of client. See
CRAWLING\_METHOD.md for the full robots.txt capture and why an earlier
recon pass flagged (incorrectly, on a different endpoint) an Incapsula
block here.

### Known limits

- No per-article category/tag (this feed doesn't carry one; a separate
  `rss-outbound-feed` does, but with far less content per item -- see
  CRAWLING\_METHOD.md for why it wasn't used instead).
- Upstream's own `<updated>` field is a broken, unparseable fragment on
  every entry (confirmed, not a parsing bug on this actor's side) and is
  therefore not included; `articlePublishedAt` uses the clean `<published>`
  field instead.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Optional. Keep only articles whose title or body text contains one of these words/phrases (case-insensitive, OR-combined). Applied AFTER fetching -- this feed has no server-side search, so this narrows locally rather than pretending upstream filters it. Leave empty to keep every article on the current feed.

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

Cap on returned ARTICLE rows after the keyword filter above. Set to 0 for unlimited -- returns every article currently on the feed (typically ~50; see README for why this isn't a deeper historical crawl).

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

Apify Proxy on the shared datacenter pool. This is the default because it is included in your plan at no extra cost and this target works through it. If you start seeing blocks, challenges or empty results, switch the group here to Residential -- it uses real consumer IPs and gets through more, but Apify bills residential traffic per gigabyte, so leave it off unless you need it.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [],
  "maxItems": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

One row per scraped record. See the dataset's default view for field definitions.

# 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("scrapyx/channelnewsasia-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("scrapyx/channelnewsasia-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 scrapyx/channelnewsasia-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapyx/channelnewsasia-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/odV2dvgLQyPZMYdO9/builds/2d5IzkV8bMirOfFin/openapi.json