Un News Article Scraper
Pricing
from $10.00 / 1,000 results
Un News Article Scraper
United Nations News Scraper
What Does UN News Scraper Do?
The United Nations News Scraper is an Apify actor that extracts news articles from the official UN News website (news.un.org). It covers major global topics including climate change, health, human rights, peace and security, economic development, and humanitarian aid. Get structured article data with titles, summaries, dates, and links for analysis or content aggregation.
Why Scrape UN News?
The United Nations News service provides authoritative coverage of global events, international policy, and humanitarian issues. For researchers, journalists, NGOs, and policy analysts, having structured access to this content enables trend analysis, media monitoring, report generation, and educational content creation. This scraper eliminates manual browsing and delivers clean data ready for your workflow.
How to Use This UN News Scraper
- Select a topic from the dropdown (climate change, health, human rights, etc.) or leave empty for general news.
- Set the maximum number of articles to retrieve.
- Run the actor and download the structured news dataset.
The scraper visits the UN News topic page and extracts article metadata using lightweight Cheerio-based parsing.
Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
topic | string | News topic to filter by | "climate change" |
maxResults | integer | Maximum articles to scrape | 25 |
Available topics: climate change, health, peace and security, human rights, economic development, humanitarian aid.
Output Data
Each article in the dataset includes:
- title - Article headline
- summary - Brief summary or lead paragraph
- url - Full URL to the article
- date - Publication date
- category - Topic category
- imageUrl - Featured image URL
- scrapedAt - Timestamp of the scrape
Cost of Usage
Efficient and cost-effective:
- Per result: $0.01
- Per 1,000 results: $10
- Actor start cost: $0.005
A typical run fetching 25 articles costs a fraction of a cent.
Tips and Best Practices
- Use an empty topic to get the latest news across all categories.
- Schedule daily runs to build a UN news archive for trend analysis.
- Combine with translation APIs if you need coverage in multiple languages.
- Use the date field to filter articles by time period after extraction.
- The UN News site updates multiple times daily, so frequent scraping yields fresh content.
Explore more scrapers:
- WHO Health News Scraper - World Health Organization news
- PBS NewsHour Scraper - PBS news coverage
- NPR Article Scraper - NPR news articles
