# RSS Feed Scraper: Any Feed & Bing News (`glitchbound/news-scraper`) Actor

RSS aggregator and feed parser: any RSS, Atom or JSON Feed into one table of news headlines with publisher, date, summary, image and link, every date in ISO 8601 UTC whatever the feed uses. Bing News search built in. Syndicated duplicates removed. RSS to JSON or RSS to CSV.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glitchbound/news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [glitchbound](https://apify.com/glitchbound) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, SEO tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.75 / 1,000 articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## News Scraper: Bing News & Any RSS Feed

> **Google News was removed on 8 November 2026.** news.google.com's robots.txt asks automated tools not to read it, and this Actor follows robots.txt. Search queries now read **Bing News**, and Google's section feeds (`topics`) are answered with an unbilled note.

Track any topic across **Bing News and any RSS or Atom feed**: in one normalised table.

RSS is a publish-for-syndication format, so there's no key, no login and no bot wall anywhere in this Actor.

### Two ways in, one shape out

**Search**: `searchQueries: ["tesla recall", "\"interest rates\" ECB"]`
Bing News, in the edition `language` and `country` pick (`de` + `DE` reads German news). Bing's feed holds about a dozen articles per query.

**Any feed**: `feedUrls: ["https://github.blog/feed/", "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"]`
A publisher's own feed, a company blog, a subreddit, a podcast. **RSS 2.0 and Atom both work**, they disagree about nearly every field name, and this Actor reconciles them so a mixed list still returns one clean table.

### Do you need an API key? No. Is there a free tier? Yes.

The two things people search for in this category, measured, are **free** and
**API key**.

So, plainly:

- **No API key.** Nothing to register for, nothing to rotate, no key to leak in
  a repo. The source is a public API published deliberately by its owner.
- **No proxy setup.** The source does not bot-wall datacenter addresses, so the
  default works.
- **Pay per result, not per month.** There is no subscription and no minimum.
  Rows that error or that your filters drop are **not charged**.
- **Free to try.** Run it with the prefilled input and see real rows before
  deciding anything.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `title` | `Apple options are doing something unusual into earnings` |
| `publisher` | `CNBC` |
| `publishedAt` | `2026-07-27T10:58:27Z`, normalised to UTC across every feed format |
| `summary` | plain text, HTML stripped |
| `url`, `image`, `categories`, `feedTitle`, `guid` | |
| `source` | which query or feed it came from |

### Syndicated duplicates removed

One wire story runs verbatim under dozens of outlets. `dedupeHeadlines` (on by default) keys on the normalised headline, not the URL, which differs per outlet, so those collapse into one row. **Duplicates are not charged.**

### Filters

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["openai"],
  "keywords": ["funding", "lawsuit"],
  "excludeKeywords": ["opinion"],
  "publishers": ["Reuters", "Bloomberg"],
  "publishedSince": "2026-07-01",
  "maxArticlesPerSource": 100
}
```

Articles from feeds that omit a publish date are **kept**, not silently dropped, missing isn't the same as too old.

### Any language, any country

`language: "de"`, `country: "DE"` gives you the German edition. Works for `he`/`IL`, `fr`/`FR`, `es`/`ES` and the rest.

### Who this is for

- **Brand & competitor monitoring**: a query per brand, scheduled hourly
- **PR & comms**: every mention, deduplicated, with publisher and timestamp
- **Newsletters & aggregators**: merge many feeds into one clean source
- **Trading & research**: headline flow on a ticker or sector, filtered by outlet
- **AI / dataset builders**: normalised article metadata from any feed on the web

### Time window

`timeframe` keeps only articles published inside the window (past hour, 12 hours,
24 hours, 3 days, week, 30 days or year), on searches and custom feeds alike.
An article outside it is dropped before it is charged; one whose feed gives no
date is kept rather than silently lost. `publishedSince` works the same way with
a fixed date, and the later of the two wins.

### Notes

- Bing News returns a headline and a short summary, not full article text. Custom `feedUrls` often carry more.
- A feed that's down or isn't valid XML comes back as one `error` row and is **not** charged; the other sources in the run still return.
- Set a **max charge per run** in the run options for a hard spend ceiling. The Actor honors it and stops cleanly.

### Pricing

Pay per result. One row = one article. Failed feeds come back as `error` rows and are **not** charged, and neither are duplicates or anything your filters removed.

### Use it from an AI agent

This Actor is a ready-made tool for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP
client, through Apify's MCP server. Add it as a connector at:

```
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/news-scraper
```

In Cursor or VS Code the same address goes in `mcp.json`:

```json
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/news-scraper" } } }
```

The first call asks you to sign in to Apify, or takes an API token. From then
on the agent sees this Actor's input fields and calls it directly.

### Feedback

If this saved you time, a review on the Actor's Store page helps other people
find it. If something is missing or wrong, the Issues tab on the same page is
the fastest way to reach me, and it gets read.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Topics to track in Bing News, one per line, e.g. "tesla recall", ""interest rates" ECB". Bing's feed holds about a dozen articles per query. Google News was removed on 8 November 2026: its robots.txt asks automated tools not to read it.

## `timeframe` (type: `string`):

How far back to keep articles, by their publish date, on searches and custom feeds alike. An article outside the window is dropped before it is charged; one whose feed gives no date is kept.

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

Any RSS or Atom feed URL: a publisher's own feed, a blog, a subreddit feed, a podcast. Both formats are parsed into the same shape.

## `maxArticlesPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Cap per query, section or feed, before filtering.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language code for the Bing News edition, e.g. en, de, fr, es, he.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code for the Bing News edition, e.g. US, GB, DE, IL.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep articles whose headline or summary contains one of these.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Drop articles mentioning any of these.

## `publishers` (type: `array`):

Only keep articles from publishers matching these names, e.g. "Reuters", "TechCrunch".

## `publishedSince` (type: `string`):

Only articles published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Articles whose feed omits a date are kept rather than silently dropped.

## `dedupeHeadlines` (type: `boolean`):

The same wire story appears under dozens of outlets. Keep the first copy only, and duplicates are not charged.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

A hard ceiling on rows for the entire run, across every target. The per-target limits above cap each one separately, so fifty targets at twenty each is still a thousand rows; this caps the total. The run stops cleanly when it is reached and nothing beyond that point is fetched or charged. Leave empty for no ceiling.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerSource": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "dedupeHeadlines": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

News articles and RSS/Atom entries with publisher, date and summary.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("glitchbound/news-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("glitchbound/news-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call glitchbound/news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,glitchbound/news-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pSoThsrYs7B17qJxt/builds/4MgEynTJghWSmFKKj/openapi.json