Ecosia News Scraper

Scrapes normalized news search results from Ecosia.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Ecosia news results into one clean JSON record per article, including publisher, canonical URL, snippet, publication time, author and category when available, page position, locale, and search provenance.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 52-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• News monitoring
• Publisher and topic research
• Article-feed enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"artificial intelligence"	Keywords to search for news on Ecosia.
maxItems	integer	No	25 (maximum 100)	Maximum news records to save.
maxPages	integer	No	1 (maximum 10)	Maximum Ecosia result pages to inspect.
region	string	No	"us-en"	Country-language code used for locale and metadata.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":false}	Optional Apify Proxy configuration for blocked hosted requests.
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	3	Retries blocked or failed pages with rotated browser sessions.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	No	90	Maximum seconds allowed to validate and extract one page.
navigationTimeoutSecs	integer	No	60	Maximum seconds allowed for browser navigation.
headless	boolean	No	true	Run Chrome without a visible window.

Example input

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "maxItems": 5,
  "maxPages": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "region": "us-en",
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 90,
  "navigationTimeoutSecs": 60,
  "headless": true
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per news article result. The following are the most useful fields; author, category, date, image, and rich-result fields depend on the source response.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Title
description	string	Description
link	string	Article Link
source	string	Publisher
publishedAtRaw	string	Published At Raw
thumbnail	string	Thumbnail
page	integer	Page
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
type	string	Type
snippet	string	Snippet
url	string	URL
query	string	Query
resultType	string	Result Type
titleHtml	string	Title HTML

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Obernolte-Trahan artificial intelligence bill introduced in House",
  "description": "The newest bill is a revised version of a discussion draft the duo released last month.",
  "link": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obernolte-trahan-artificial-intelligence-bill-introduced-in-house/ar-AA28xIqW",
  "source": "Politico on MSN.com",
  "publishedAtRaw": "3 hours ago",
  "page": 1,
  "searchQuery": "artificial intelligence",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T18:12:14.647Z",
  "type": "news",
  "snippet": "The newest bill is a revised version of a discussion draft the duo released last month.",
  "url": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obernolte-trahan-artificial-intelligence-bill-introduced-in-house/ar-AA28xIqW"
}

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• Ecosia Images Scraper
• Ecosia Search Scraper
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