Yahoo News Trending, Category & Keyword Feed by Region

Yahoo News publishes thousands of headlines every day from wire services, newspapers, broadcasters, and digital publishers. This actor collects them from six Yahoo News editions — US, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Japan — through three modes: trending top stories, browsable category feeds, or a keyword search. Each article comes with its exact publication time, publisher, author, summary, section, and image.

What this actor does

• Reads the live Yahoo News section pages as they exist today (the old /rss/<section> feeds mostly return 404 or frozen data)
• Follows pagination (/2/, /3/ … for sections; b=11, b=21 … for search) until maxItems or the source is exhausted
• Opens each article's detail page to fill exact dates, author, publisher URL, keywords, and image dimensions
• Deduplicates across categories and across multiple search queries
• Falls back to Yahoo's news search or a live RSS feed when a section page is temporarily blocked
• Omits every field an article genuinely lacks — no nulls, empty strings, or placeholders

Modes

Mode	What it returns	Pagination
getTrending	The selected edition's front-page top stories	Section pages, up to 25 pages
browseCategory	One or more category feeds, e.g. Politics + World	Section pages, per-region depth
search	Yahoo News keyword search results across all Yahoo properties	10 results per page, up to 50 pages

search queries the whole Yahoo News index rather than a single regional front page, so it can surface articles from any Yahoo edition. The region value still labels the run and is written to each record.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	getTrending	getTrending, browseCategory, or search
region	string	us	us, uk, ca, au, sg, or jp
searchQueries	array	–	Keywords or phrases for search mode. Multiple queries are interleaved fairly.
categories	array	–	Category slugs for browseCategory; availability varies by region (below)
maxItems	integer	50	Total articles to return (1–1000)
keyword	string	–	Keep only articles whose title or summary contains this text
sourceFilter	string	–	Keep only articles whose publisher name contains this text, e.g. Reuters
includeArticleDetails	boolean	true	Open each article page for exact dates/author/publisher URL/keywords. Turn off for faster list-only records.

Regions and available categories

Region	Categories
United States (us)	Top Stories, US, World, Politics, Science, Weather, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Health, Sports, Finance
United Kingdom (uk)	Top Stories, UK, World, Politics, Science & Tech, Weather, Finance, Sports
Canada (ca)	Top Stories, Canada, World, Politics, US, Science & Tech, Weather, Sports, Finance
Australia (au)	Top Stories, Australia, World, Politics, Environment, Sport, Weather, Finance
Singapore (sg)	Top Stories, Singapore, World, Politics, Sports, Personal Finance, Weather
Japan (jp)	Top Picks, Domestic, World, Business, Entertainment, Sports, IT, Science, Local

A category that does not exist for the chosen region is skipped with a warning; the run continues with the valid ones.

Examples

Trending stories for the UK:

{ "mode": "getTrending", "region": "uk", "maxItems": 20 }

Browse two Canadian categories, paginated to 100 articles:

{
  "mode": "browseCategory",
  "region": "ca",
  "categories": ["canada", "politics"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Search two topics across Yahoo News, only from one publisher:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "region": "us",
  "searchQueries": ["AI regulation", "semiconductor exports"],
  "sourceFilter": "Reuters",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Output per article

Field	Meaning
title	Exact headline (from the article page when details are enabled)
description	Summary/excerpt
link	Canonical article URL (Yahoo-hosted, or the publisher when Yahoo links out directly)
publishedAt	Exact publication time in UTC ISO 8601
updatedAt	Last update time, when different from publication
author	Byline, when the article names one
sourceName	Original publisher, e.g. Reuters, Associated Press, BBC
sourceUrl	Publisher's homepage
section	Human-readable section, e.g. Politics or U.S.
category	Category slug used by the run; search for search-mode records
searchQuery	The query that produced a search-mode record
yahooProperty	News, Finance, or Sports when search identifies the Yahoo property
region	Edition requested (us, uk, ca, au, sg, jp)
imageUrl, imageWidth, imageHeight	Lead image and its dimensions
keywords	Article keywords, when the publisher supplies them
guid	Stable article identifier
scrapedAt	When the record was collected

Pagination and limits

• Category and trending modes paginate through Yahoo's section pages (about 50 cards per page; page 20 is populated and page 21 is empty, so roughly 1,000 recent articles per large section). maxItems stops the run as soon as enough unique articles are collected.
• Search mode follows Yahoo's 10-results-per-page offset (up to 50 pages). Yahoo's search index exposes roughly 500 results per query (offset 501 returns only a couple, offset 1001 returns none), so very broad maxItems values can return fewer results than requested; the run reports the actual count.
• Yahoo Japan topic pages paginate with ?page=N (up to 9 pages per topic).
• Some lanes (Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance) expose a single page rather than paginated sections; their natural inventory is smaller.
• includeArticleDetails=false keeps the run fast and avoids one request per article, but exact dates, authors, and full summaries require details. List-only search dates come from Yahoo's relative-time labels and are approximate.

Use cases

• News monitoring — track a brand, person, or topic across Yahoo's syndicated network
• Media research — see which publishers cover a story and how headlines are framed
• Regional feeds — build a US, UK, Canadian, Australian, Singaporean, or Japanese news stream
• NLP datasets — collect headlines, summaries, publishers, sections, and timestamps for classification or sentiment work
• Data journalism — compare coverage across editions and categories

Data source

The actor reads Yahoo News's public HTML pages and Yahoo's public news search results. No login, cookie, API key, or proxy configuration is required. It does not bypass paywalls or access controls.

FAQ

Is this affiliated with Yahoo? No. It is an independent third-party actor that reads publicly accessible Yahoo News pages.

Why did US category results used to be empty? Yahoo retired the old news.yahoo.com/rss/<section> feeds in 2026. The revamp reads the live www.yahoo.com/news/<section> pages instead, so categories work again.

Why does search sometimes return fewer than maxItems? Yahoo's news search index exposes a finite number of results per query. The actor also drops duplicates and non-article cards, so the final count can be below the requested maximum. The status message reports the real count.

How current is the data? Section and search pages show whatever Yahoo is serving at run time. With details enabled, publishedAt is the exact timestamp from the article page.

Can I filter by date? Not as an input, but every record has publishedAt, so you can filter downstream.

Why do a few search results point outside Yahoo? Yahoo News search occasionally links straight to a publisher instead of a Yahoo-hosted copy. Those records keep the search-card fields; detail enrichment only opens Yahoo-hosted article pages.

Why are some fields absent on some records? Yahoo and its publishers do not provide every field for every story (for example, not all articles name an author). Those fields are omitted rather than filled with placeholders.

Does search respect region? Search queries Yahoo's global news index, which can include any Yahoo edition. The region value labels the run; each result keeps its canonical Yahoo URL so you can see which edition hosted it.