# Celebrity News — Entertainment, Movies & Music (`straightforward_hydra/celebrity-news`) Actor

The latest celebrity & entertainment news from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, E!, TMZ, Deadline, Rolling Stone, Billboard and more, fused with GDELT worldwide. Search any star or show. No key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/straightforward\_hydra/celebrity-news.md
- **Developed by:** [Dev D](https://apify.com/straightforward_hydra) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 96.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

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# README

## Celebrity News 🌟🎬

**The latest celebrity & entertainment news in one feed — from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, E!, TMZ, Deadline, Rolling Stone, Billboard, BBC and The Guardian, fused with GDELT worldwide coverage. Search any star, show or studio. No API key.**

Movies, music, TV, red carpets and celebrity headlines are scattered across the entertainment press. This Actor pulls the top showbiz desks, blends them with **GDELT** (the open global news-metadata service), de-duplicates, and hands you one clean, ranked feed — headlines, snippets and links, never full article bodies.

***

### Three modes

- **Latest** (default) — newest celebrity/entertainment stories across every curated outlet, topped up with GDELT worldwide, de-duplicated and sorted newest-first.
- **Search** — search worldwide news for a star, show or studio (`"Taylor Swift"`, `"Marvel"`, `"Netflix"`), filter by language, source country and time window.
- **Digest** — one summary row: top sources, trending names/topics, and counts by country.

### Sources

Variety · The Hollywood Reporter · E! Online · TMZ · Deadline · Us Weekly · Rolling Stone · Billboard · BBC · The Guardian · **GDELT** worldwide

### What you get per article

`title` · `source` · `summary` (publisher snippet) · `image` · `published_at` (ISO-8601) · `language` · `country` · `url` (link back)

### Examples

**The latest celebrity news right now**

```json
{ "mode": "latest" }
```

**Search worldwide coverage of a star**

```json
{ "mode": "search", "query": "Taylor Swift", "timespan": "3d", "language": "english" }
```

**Trending names + top sources**

```json
{ "mode": "digest" }
```

### Run it on a schedule

Schedule an hourly run to keep a live entertainment-news table in a sheet or dashboard, power a fan site or newsletter, or monitor coverage of a celebrity, show or studio across world media.

### How it stays clean (sources & policy)

- **Headlines + the publisher's own snippet + image + a link back — never the full article body.** The standard aggregator model: facts and attribution with a link to the source.
- **GDELT** — open, commercial-friendly global news-metadata API (no key), metadata only.
- **Curated RSS/Atom** — hand-picked entertainment outlets that publish syndication feeds.
- **No API key** for any mode.

### Notes & limitations

- GDELT is rate-limited (~1 query / 5s); the Actor paces and retries automatically.
- Some feeds carry a short excerpt as `summary`, some none.
- `country` uses GDELT source-country codes; `language` uses GDELT language names (e.g. `english`).

***

#### Keywords

celebrity news, entertainment news, celebrity news API, entertainment news scraper, showbiz news, movie news, film news, music news, TV news, Hollywood news, red carpet, box office, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, TMZ, celebrity headlines, entertainment monitoring, GDELT, news aggregator, no API key.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

latest = newest celebrity/entertainment stories (+ GDELT worldwide). search = search worldwide for a star, show or studio. digest = one summary row.

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

Keyword or phrase to search worldwide news for, e.g. "Taylor Swift", "Marvel", "Netflix". Use quotes for exact phrases.

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

Restrict GDELT results to one source language, e.g. "english", "spanish".

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

Restrict GDELT results to one source country code, e.g. "US", "UK". Leave blank for worldwide.

## `timespan` (type: `string`):

How far back GDELT looks: e.g. "1d", "3d", "1w". Default: 1 day for latest, 1 week for search.

## `includeWorldwide` (type: `boolean`):

In latest/digest modes, top up the curated feeds with GDELT worldwide entertainment coverage.

## `includeSummary` (type: `boolean`):

Include the publisher's short summary snippet for each article (RSS sources).

## `maxArticlesPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

Cap on how many items to take from each individual outlet feed.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Cap on total article rows returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "latest",
  "includeWorldwide": true,
  "includeSummary": true,
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 25,
  "maxResults": 200
}
```

# 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("straightforward_hydra/celebrity-news").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("straightforward_hydra/celebrity-news").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 straightforward_hydra/celebrity-news --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,straightforward_hydra/celebrity-news"
        }
    }
}

```

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/x6pkfmXXkwnkyPGnA/builds/LIu8CeZod1Ke96lhp/openapi.json