# Bing News Scraper (`gentle_cloud/bing-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape news articles from Bing News search — titles, URLs, sources, publish dates, snippets, and thumbnails. Supports keyword search, date filtering, and regional markets. No API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gentle\_cloud/bing-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Monkey Coder](https://apify.com/gentle_cloud) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 12 total users, 6 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 📰 Bing News Scraper

Scrape news articles from Bing News search results — titles, URLs, sources, publish dates, snippets, and thumbnails. Supports multiple keyword search, date sorting, and regional markets. **No API key required.**

### ✨ Features

- **Multi-Keyword Search**: Search for news across multiple topics in a single run
- **RSS + HTML Scraping**: Uses Bing's RSS feed for clean data, with HTML scraping fallback
- **Date Sorting**: Sort results by relevance or most recent
- **Regional Markets**: Target 10+ markets including US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, and more
- **Rich Data**: Extracts title, URL, source, publish date, snippet, and thumbnail for each article

### 🔧 How It Works

1. Configure your **search keywords** (comma-separated for multiple topics)
2. Set the **max results per keyword**, **sort order**, and **target market**
3. The Actor queries Bing News via RSS feed (primary) with HTML scraping fallback
4. Results are pushed to the Apify dataset as structured JSON

### 📋 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Description |
|-----------|------|-------------|
| `search_keywords` | string | Comma-separated keywords (e.g., `artificial intelligence, tesla`) |
| `max_results` | integer | Max articles per keyword (1–100, default: 30) |
| `sort_by` | string | `relevance` or `date` (most recent first) |
| `market` | string | Target market: `en-US`, `en-GB`, `de-DE`, `fr-FR`, `ja-JP`, etc. |

### 📊 Sample Output

```json
{
    "title": "OpenAI Announces New GPT Model With Enhanced Reasoning",
    "url": "https://www.example.com/article/openai-new-model",
    "snippet": "OpenAI has unveiled its latest language model featuring significantly improved reasoning capabilities and reduced hallucination rates...",
    "source": "TechCrunch",
    "published": "Mon, 17 Mar 2026 14:30:00 GMT",
    "thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVFT.example&pid=News",
    "search_keyword": "artificial intelligence",
    "fetched_at": "2026-03-18T08:00:00.000000"
}
```

### ⚡ Rate Limits

This Actor scrapes Bing News directly — no API key required. Built-in rate limiting ensures reliable operation:

- **1.5s delay** between pagination requests
- **Automatic retry** on HTTP 429 (rate limit) responses
- **~30 articles per keyword**: Completes in ~5-10 seconds
- **Multiple keywords**: Processed sequentially with delays

### 📝 Notes

- Data is scraped from Bing News search results in real-time
- RSS feed is used as the primary data source for cleaner, more structured output
- If RSS returns no results, the Actor automatically falls back to HTML scraping
- Article URLs link directly to the original source websites
- Thumbnails are Bing-cached images and may expire after some time
- For best results, use specific search terms rather than very broad keywords

# Actor input Schema

## `search_keywords` (type: `string`):

Comma-separated keywords to search for news articles (e.g., 'artificial intelligence, tesla, climate change')

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of news articles to fetch per keyword (default: 30, max: 100)

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

How to sort the news results

## `market` (type: `string`):

Target market for localized news results

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "search_keywords": "artificial intelligence, tesla",
  "max_results": 30,
  "sort_by": "date",
  "market": "en-US"
}
```

# 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 = {
    "search_keywords": "artificial intelligence, tesla",
    "max_results": 30,
    "sort_by": "date",
    "market": "en-US"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gentle_cloud/bing-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 = {
    "search_keywords": "artificial intelligence, tesla",
    "max_results": 30,
    "sort_by": "date",
    "market": "en-US",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gentle_cloud/bing-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 '{
  "search_keywords": "artificial intelligence, tesla",
  "max_results": 30,
  "sort_by": "date",
  "market": "en-US"
}' |
apify call gentle_cloud/bing-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gentle_cloud/bing-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/RmZNHgcFKKl7khA4p/builds/hEricFiRQTx4r4fOg/openapi.json