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.

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/health/other/viridian-eye-disease-drug-surpasses-expectations-in-late-stage-trial-shares-soar/ar-AA22sioL?ocid=BingNewsBrowse",
  "source": "MSN News",
  "title": "Viridian eye disease drug surpasses expectations in late-stage trial; shares soar",
  "description": "By Siddhi Mahatole May 5 (Reuters) - Viridian Therapeutics said on Tuesday its experimental thyroid eye disease drug met the main goal of a late-stage trial in chronic patients, sending its shares up nearly 35%. The drug, elegrobart, significantly reduced eye bulging in patients with long-standing thyroid eye disease, or TED, when given as a subcutaneous injection every four or every eight weeks",
  "content": "By Siddhi Mahatole May 5 (Reuters) - Viridian Therapeutics said on Tuesday its experimental thyroid eye disease drug met the main goal of a late-stage trial in chronic patients, sending its shares up nearly 35%. The drug, elegrobart, significantly reduced eye bulging in patients with long-standing thyroid eye disease, or TED, when given as a subcutaneous injection every four or every eight weeks, compared with placebo, the company said....",
  "image": "https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA22raV6.img",
  "language": "en-US",
  "word_count": 323,
  "published_date": "2026-05-05T18:07:31Z",
  "modified_date": "2026-05-05T18:44:43Z",
  "authors": [
    "Siddhi Mahatole"
  ],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": [
    "Health",
    "Health news",
    "Medical news",
    "Health and Fitness"
  ]
}

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://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/the-greatest-sitcom-of-the-2000s-is-back-and-its-already-the-biggest-show-on-hulu/ar-AA212cvh?ocid=BingNewsBrowse",
    "title": "The greatest sitcom of the 2000s is back - and it's already the biggest show on Hulu",
    "source": "MSN News"
  }
]

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

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

• 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.

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.