Gulf Arabic News Monitor – Saudi, UAE & Qatar headlines (RSS)

Track fresh Arabic and English Gulf news headlines from 8 outlets in one run, with Arabic-aware keyword filtering and a "new articles only" monitor mode for scheduled runs. No login, no browser, no proxy: it reads the public RSS feeds the outlets publish for syndication, so it is fast, cheap and stable.

What it does

• Collects headline, summary, link, publish time (ISO 8601), author, categories and image URL.
• Covers Saudi, UAE, Qatar and pan-Arab outlets: Okaz (عكاظ), Almowaten (المواطن), Saudi Gazette, Asharq Al-Awsat (الشرق الأوسط), Sky News Arabia, Al Jazeera Arabic, Gulf Times, Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
• Arabic-aware matching: ignores tashkeel (diacritics) and tatweel, unifies إ/أ/آ→ا, ى→ي, ة→ه, and Arabic-Indic digits, so اعلان finds إعلان.
• Monitor mode: remembers links from previous runs and returns only new articles. Schedule it hourly or daily.
• De-duplicates links, filters by article age, caps items per source.

Use cases

• Media monitoring and PR alerts for brands in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf
• Feeding Arabic news into LLM/RAG pipelines and AI agents
• Daily newsletters and Slack/Telegram digests
• Research on topic coverage (Arabic NLP datasets: headlines + summaries)

Input

Field	Description	Default
sources	Outlets to read	all 8
keywords	Words to match in title/summary (Arabic or English)	none
keywordMode	any or all	any
maxItemsPerSource	Cap per outlet per run (also caps cost)	50
maxAgeHours	Skip older articles, 0 = no limit	0
monitorMode	Return only articles not seen before	false
includeImages	Include image URL	true

Example:

{ "sources": ["okaz", "aawsat", "skynewsarabia"], "keywords": ["الرياض", "نيوم"], "maxAgeHours": 24, "monitorMode": true }

Output

{
  "source": "okaz",
  "sourceName": "Okaz (عكاظ)",
  "country": "SA",
  "language": "ar",
  "title": "…",
  "url": "https://www.okaz.com.sa/…",
  "summary": "…",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-18T01:20:27.000Z",
  "author": "…",
  "categories": ["…"],
  "imageUrl": "https://…",
  "matchedKeywords": ["الرياض"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T06:55:00.000Z"
}

A STATS record in the key-value store reports per-source counts and any feed errors.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay a small fixed price for each news item delivered (news-item) plus a tiny start fee. Use maxItemsPerSource to cap spend.

Legal and responsible use

Only headline metadata that outlets publish in their public RSS feeds is collected (title, short summary, link). Full article text is not copied: follow the link to read the original at the publisher. Respect each outlet's terms when republishing content. This Actor is unofficial and not affiliated with any publisher.

FAQ

Why is a source missing items? A feed may be temporarily down; check STATS for the error. Other sources still complete. Can you add another outlet? Open an issue on the Actor page with the feed URL.