Bloomberg News Search

Discover and collect Bloomberg news articles seamlessly by category, edition, and keyword. This high-performance actor is designed to provide you with the most reliable and up-to-date business news directly from Bloomberg.

🚀 Key Advantages / Why Use This Actor?

• Zero Proxy Costs: You do not need expensive residential proxies, headless browsers, or complicated login mechanisms.
• Deep Native Pagination: Retrieve thousands of articles by specifying higher pagination limits. The actor natively navigates Bloomberg's backend API to fetch exhaustive search results.
• Lightning Fast Compilation: Experience scraping execution that takes just seconds, not minutes. Ideal for large-scale and high-frequency data pipelines.
• Unrestricted Regional Tracking: Whether you are monitoring the U.S. markets or the Asian economy, this actor supports 9 global editions.
• Versatile Input: Supports everything from direct keyword inquiries to category-wide timeline monitoring.

💡 Use Cases

1. Market Sentiment Analysis: Search specific company tickers (e.g., "Nvidia" or "TSLM") and pull high volumes of recent news data to feed into your sentiment analysis models.
2. Competitive & Industry Intelligence: Monitor specific industry categories (like Technology or Markets) every hour to track key macro-economic policy announcements or competitor launches.
3. Financial Research & Archiving: Programmatically build a robust archive of global financial events, sorting precisely by published dates and categories.
4. Automated Trading Feeds: Pipe the ultra-fast JSON output directly into your trading algorithms or news aggregator to generate live signals based on Bloomberg's top headlines.

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📥 Input Params

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
categories	Dropdown List	[]	Select one or more Bloomberg categories to scrape (e.g., markets, technology, crypto). Leave empty if you solely want keyword searches.
edition	Dropdown	"global"	Regional edition context (US, UK, Asia, Japan, etc.).
keywords	Array of strings	[]	Exact keywords to query. If no categories are selected, it queries the Bloomberg Search API directly!
maxPages	Integer	3	Maximum number of pages to navigate. Set higher limits (e.g., 20) to fetch hundreds of older articles from pagination.

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📤 Output

The actor parses data universally, guaranteeing that no matter whether you scan by Categories or Keywords, you will always receive the same, structured JSON format dynamically mapped for your database:

{
  "title": "Trump Encourages Companies Not to Seek Tariff Refunds",
  "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/trump-encourages-companies-not-to-seek-tariff-refunds",
  "description": "President Donald Trump said he’d remember companies that decline to seek refunds on duties paid after the Supreme Court struck down a large swath of his tariffs.",
  "published": "2026-04-21T14:55:22.000Z",
  "author": "Laura Curtis and Hadriana Lowenkron",
  "category": "politics",
  "image_url": "https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/.../v1/-1x-1.jpg",
  "resourceId": "TDUHSNT9NJLU00",
  "readings": [
    {
      "voice": "Matthew",
      "duration_ms": 116736,
      "url": "https://assets.bwbx.io/s3/readings/...mp3"
    }
  ],
  "rawKnnScore": 0.006628017,
  "seriesTitle": "Evening Briefing Europe",
  "source": "bloomberg_search"
}

JSON Field Dictionary

Field	Type	Description / Usage
title	String	The normalized headline of the article.
url	String	The absolute link directly to the Bloomberg article content.
description	String	The extracted summary or sub-headline outlining the news item.
published	String	The timestamp of publication (formatted as ISO 8601 UTC).
author	String	The cleaned byline name(s) of the journalist(s) who wrote the article.
category	String	The primary eyebrow, section tag, or category tracked by Bloomberg.
image_url	String	The standardized absolute URL pointing to the featured thumbnail or cover image.
resourceId	String / Null	(Search Mode Only) The internal Bloomberg backend unique ID. Always returns null during Category iterations or if unavailable in search.
readings	Array / Null	(Search Mode Only) Contains audio text-to-speech file metadata. Always returns null during Category iterations or if unavailable in search.
rawKnnScore	Float / Null	(Search Mode Only) Bloomberg's relevancy weight for the queried keyword. Use this for sorting. Always returns null during Category iterations or if unavailable in search.
seriesTitle	String / Null	(Search Mode Only) Indicates if the article belongs to a recurring column/broadcast series. Always returns null during Category iterations or if unavailable in search.
source	String	The scraping source metadata (e.g., bloomberg_search or bloomberg:markets).

Note on Category mode: To maintain schema consistency across databases, if an article does not possess data for the four Search-exclusive fields (or if you are running a generic Categories scrape instead of a Keywords scrape), the actor safely defaults their values to null.

Why are these fields null during Category scrapes?
When you iterate over Categories, the actor extracts formatted news timelines directly from Bloomberg's Next.js frontend rendering state. Because frontend UI components only require display metrics, internal proprietary data (such as algorithm weights like rawKnnScore or internal CMS tracking hashes like resourceId and seriesTitle) are stripped out. You will exclusively find these metrics surfaced when directly querying Bloomberg's internal database via a Keyword Search configuration.

🌍 Available Categories & Editions

Categories: markets, technology, politics, economics, industries, wealth, pursuits, opinion, businessweek, green, crypto, citylab

Editions: global, us, uk, canada, latin-america, europe, asia, middle-east, africa, japan

🔗 Pair With

Combine this actor with downstream workflow processors:

• Bloomberg Article Scraper — Route the output url from this actor into the Article Scraper to download the full, multi-page article texts and body contents.