Multi News Scraper API - Google, Bing & Yahoo News

Scrape Google News, Bing News, and Yahoo News from one Actor. Search one or many queries and get a unified dataset of headlines, publishers, publish dates, snippets, news links, source engine, and article URLs when available.

Use it for brand monitoring, competitor tracking, PR alerts, market research, crisis monitoring, and AI/news pipelines.

What it does

• Searches Google News, Bing News, Yahoo News, or any combination
• Accepts multiple queries or pasted query lists
• Returns one normalized row per article
• Adds searchEngine so you can compare coverage across sources
• Deduplicates across sources when possible
• Saves SUMMARY, HEADLINES_BY_SOURCE, and ERRORS key-value outputs

No API key, login, or browser required.

Popular use cases

• Brand alerts - monitor your brand, executives, products, and competitors.
• Multi-source news monitoring - compare Google, Bing, and Yahoo coverage.
• Competitor launch tracking - watch funding, partnerships, acquisitions, and product launches.
• Crisis monitoring - track lawsuits, outages, breaches, recalls, and controversies.
• Market research - follow AI, crypto, healthcare, real estate, climate, or finance topics.
• LLM news pipelines - feed structured current news into dashboards and AI workflows.

Example input

{
  "queries": ["openai", "climate tech", "interest rates"],
  "searchEngines": ["google", "bing", "yahoo"],
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 25,
  "dedupe": true
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	-	Search terms
queriesText	string	-	Queries as text, one per line or comma-separated
searchEngines	string[]	[google, bing, yahoo]	News sources to scrape
geo	string	"US"	Country/market code for Google and Bing
language	string	"en"	Language code for Google and Bing
maxItemsPerQuery	integer	50	Cap per query per source
maxQueries	integer	100	Max search queries
dedupe	boolean	true	Remove duplicate articles across sources
requestDelayMs	integer	500	Delay between feed requests
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Parallel feed requests
proxyConfiguration	object	-	Optional proxy settings for high volume

At least one of queries or queriesText is required.

Output

{
  "searchEngine": "yahoo",
  "query": "openai",
  "queryType": "search",
  "title": "OpenAI ships new model and tools",
  "newsUrl": "https://news.yahoo.com/...",
  "googleNewsUrl": null,
  "bingNewsUrl": null,
  "yahooNewsUrl": "https://news.yahoo.com/...",
  "articleUrl": "https://news.yahoo.com/...",
  "source": "Yahoo News",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-18T14:30:00.000Z",
  "snippet": "OpenAI ships new model...",
  "guid": "ABC123",
  "position": 1,
  "geo": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-06-18T15:00:00.000Z"
}

Google News rows keep the Google News RSS redirect link as googleNewsUrl. Bing rows include decoded publisher URLs as articleUrl when Bing provides them. Yahoo rows generally include direct Yahoo article URLs.

Related tools

• Google News Scraper
• Bing News Scraper
• Google & Bing News Monitor
• Google AI Overview Tracker

Run with the API

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/groupoject~multi-news-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "queries":["OpenAI funding","AI regulation"],
    "searchEngines":["google","bing","yahoo"],
    "geo":"US",
    "language":"en",
    "maxItemsPerQuery":25
  }'

Monitoring query patterns

Use search operators and focused phrases to improve relevance:

• Brand: "Your Brand" OR "Product Name"
• Competitor: "Competitor" launch OR funding OR partnership
• Reputation: "Your Brand" lawsuit OR outage OR recall
• Executive: "Person Name" interview OR appointed
• Market: "electric vehicles" regulation OR investment

Multi-source workflow

1. Start with two to five focused queries.
2. Enable all three engines to compare source coverage.
3. Review duplicates and publisher quality in the first dataset.
4. Save the input as a task and schedule recurring runs.
5. Connect results to alerts, a warehouse, dashboard, or AI summarizer.

FAQ

Are full article bodies included?

No. The Actor returns news discovery metadata such as title, publisher, date, snippet, and article or news URL. It does not crawl publisher article bodies.

Why do engines return different results?

Google, Bing, and Yahoo use different indexes, ranking systems, localization, and publication coverage. searchEngine identifies each result source.

Does it require an API key?

No. It reads public news search feeds without third-party news API credentials.

Can I monitor international news?

Yes. Adjust geo and language; availability and localization vary by engine.

Respect publisher rights and use headlines, snippets, and links according to applicable law and source terms.