AP News Article Scraper

Extract full article text, byline, publication date, and metadata from any apnews.com URL. The Associated Press publishes breaking news and long-form reporting that is freely accessible to the public, making it one of the most reliable targets for news data collection.

Why Use This Actor?

• Breaking news ingestion - capture AP real-time wire reports for downstream processing.
• Media monitoring - track AP coverage of specific topics, regions, or events.
• Training datasets - AP clear journalistic style is ideal for NLP and ML datasets.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Input

{
  "url": "https://apnews.com/article/example-slug-abc123",
  "urls": [
    "https://apnews.com/article/article-one-abc",
    "https://apnews.com/article/article-two-xyz"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-taiwan-iran-trade-e7a3cdf161c608de152ac1c6e5755452",
  "source": "AP News",
  "title": "Trump weighs Taiwan arms package after summit aimed at steadying US-China ties",
  "description": "",
  "content": "BEIJING (AP) — U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpsaid Friday that he has not made a decision on whether to move forward with a major arms package for Taiwan after hearing concerns about it from Chinese PresidentXi Jinping. Trump’s comments on Taiwan — a self-ruled island that China claims as its own territory — came as he flew back to Washington after wrapping upcritical talksin which both leaders said important progress was made in stabilizing U.S.-China relations even as deep differences persist betwe...",
  "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/135f2cc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2776x1850+66+0/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F07%2F50%2F6f7c5beb6b29fb2e03fab523490a%2F34161ab9aba54e55824446446258995d",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 1219,
  "published_date": "",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": [],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

Set mode to "latest" to fetch the newest article URLs and titles from AP News instead of extracting a single article.

Input:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10
}

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-war-israel-hormuz-19-april-2026-0a637f98d588930f195f61cffe07d4f3",
    "title": "US Navy seizes an Iranian-flagged ship near Strait of Hormuz and Tehran vows swift response",
    "source": "AP News"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://rsshub.app/apnews/topics/apf-topnews (RSS feed)

Cron Schedule: Auto-Fetch Newest Articles

Combine mode: "latest" and mode: "article" to keep a fresh feed running on autopilot:

1. Schedule a recurring run of this Actor with {"mode": "latest", "limit": 20} via Apify Schedules (UI ▸ Schedules ▸ Create new). A cron expression like */30 * * * * runs it every 30 minutes.
2. Webhook the dataset of the latest run into another Actor run with mode: "article" and the new URLs as input — Apify integrations let you chain runs via the "Actor finished" webhook without any glue code.
3. The article-mode run extracts the full body, image, authors, and metadata for each URL and appends to your master dataset.

Common cron expressions:

Frequency	Cron
Every 15 minutes	*/15 * * * *
Hourly	0 * * * *
Every 6 hours	0 */6 * * *
Daily at 06:00 UTC	0 6 * * *

Notes

• AP articles do not require login - all content is returned in full
• Category and tag pages are not supported; pass individual article URLs only

Other News Actors

Need a different news source? All actors in this collection:

Actor	Source
aljazeera-scraper	Al Jazeera
apnews-scraper	AP News
bbc-scraper	BBC News
cnbc-scraper	CNBC
forbes-scraper	Forbes
fortune-scraper	Fortune
ft-scraper	Financial Times
guardian-scraper	The Guardian
msn-scraper	MSN News
nytimes-scraper	New York Times
reuters-scraper	Reuters
scmp-scraper	South China Morning Post
techcrunch-scraper	TechCrunch
upi-scraper	UPI
yahoo-finance-scraper	Yahoo Finance
smart-news-loader	Any URL - adaptive HTTP loader
bloomberg-scraper	Bloomberg

All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.