Bing News Scraper

Scrape news articles and headlines from Bing News search results — the go-to Bing News API alternative after Microsoft deprecated the official Bing News Search API in August 2025.

No API key required. Extract headlines, direct article links, publisher names, summaries, thumbnails, and logos in structured JSON.

Why this actor?

• No API key needed — no Azure subscription, no rate limits, no billing surprises
• Up to 500 results per query — collect large datasets in a single run
• Multi-market support — 13 countries and 13 languages
• Automatic deduplication — no duplicate URLs across multiple queries
• Pay per result — only pay for the articles you actually get

Use cases

• Media monitoring — track brand mentions and press coverage across news sources
• Sentiment analysis — collect news articles for NLP and sentiment pipelines
• Market research — monitor industry trends and competitor coverage
• Content curation — build news aggregators and RSS feed alternatives
• SEO monitoring — track backlinks and mentions from news publications
• Academic research — collect structured news data for research datasets

Features

• Category filtering — Sports, Entertainment, Business, Technology, Science, Politics, World, U.S.
• Date range — past 24 hours, past week, past month, or all time
• Sort by date — get the newest articles first
• Publisher logos — includes publisher logo images alongside thumbnails
• Structured timestamps — consistent date formatting for all articles
• Automatic deduplication — no duplicate URLs when running multiple queries

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
queries	array	required	News search queries (1–100)
category	select	All categories	Filter by news category
freshness	select	All time	Filter by date range
sortBy	select	Date	Sort by relevance or date
country	select	US	Country code for regional results
language	select	English (US)	Language for search results
maxItems	number	50	Max articles per query (0 = unlimited)
includeThumbnail	boolean	true	Include thumbnail image URLs
includePublisherLogo	boolean	true	Include publisher logo URLs
deduplicate	boolean	true	Skip duplicate URLs across queries

Output

Each result contains:

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "position": 1,
  "title": "OpenAI Announces GPT-5",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/article...",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "snippet": "OpenAI unveiled its latest language model...",
  "timeAgo": "2h",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T12:00:00Z",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=...",
  "publisherLogoUrl": "https://th.bing.com/th?id=...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-04-17T14:00:00Z"
}

Run summary

After each run, a summary is saved to the Key-Value Store under the key RUN_SUMMARY with total fetched, pushed, and filtered counts per query.

Tips

• Use multiple queries to cover a topic from different angles
• Combine category + freshness filters for highly targeted results
• For large runs (50+ queries), use Apify proxies to avoid rate limiting
• Use the "Past 24 hours" freshness filter for breaking news monitoring

Related actors

Looking for more news sources? Check out Google News Scraper — extract articles from Google News with similar filtering and export options.