MSN News Article Scraper

Extract article text, headline, and metadata from msn.com news article URLs. MSN News aggregates content from hundreds of publisher partners including NBC News, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and BBC, giving access to a wide variety of sources through a single scraper.

Why Use This Actor?

• Multi-source aggregation — MSN serves content from 200+ publisher partners through one URL format.
• Trending news monitoring — MSN surfaces popular stories across categories in real time.
• Content discovery — use MSN editorial curation to find top news with minimal effort.
• Research breadth — MSN articles represent diverse publisher voices in a single feed.

Is It Legal to Scrape MSN?

MSN content is aggregated from third-party publishers under licensing agreements. Article content is publicly accessible without login on most pages. Microsoft's Terms of Service prohibit automated scraping of MSN properties. The underlying publisher's copyright applies to each article - redistribution must comply with the original publisher's terms. Scraping for personal research or non-commercial analysis is generally considered fair use.

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://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/example-article/ar-AA1rFgBz",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/article-one/ar-AA1rFgBz",
    "https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/article-two/ar-BB2rGgBc"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/example-article/ar-AA1rFgBz",
  "source": "MSN News",
  "title": "Example Article Title",
  "content": "Full article text extracted from the MSN article page...",
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output — array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://...",
    "title": "Article headline",
    "published_date": "Sat, 12 Apr 2026 10:30:00 GMT",
    "source": "MSN News"
  }
]

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world (homepage) (homepage)

Notes

• MSN article URLs use a short alphanumeric ID (e.g., ar-AA1rFgBz). Always use the full canonical URL from the MSN website.
• Some MSN articles display only a summary when accessed without a referring header from a search engine; the actor handles this automatically.
• Articles that are behind the partner publisher's paywall (e.g., Washington Post, Bloomberg) may return partial content 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

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