# NewsAPI Intelligence BYOK (`smart_tech_resources/newsapi`) Actor

Fetch NewsAPI.org articles with your own API key and output normalized, AI-ready news data for monitoring, research, and reporting.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/smart\_tech\_resources/newsapi.md
- **Developed by:** [Smart Tech Resources](https://apify.com/smart_tech_resources) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Developer tools, News
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## 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

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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

## NewsAPI Intelligence BYOK

Collect and normalize NewsAPI.org articles using the user provided API key.

### Input

The input form is defined in `.actor/input_schema.json`. API key fields, where present, use Apify `isSecret: true`.

NewsAPI source requires your own NewsAPI.org API key. This Actor does not include NewsAPI credits.

### Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK)

This Actor does not include third-party API credits. If you enable premium sources such as NewsAPI, Mediastack, NewsData.io, or Event Registry, you must provide your own API key.

You are responsible for any third-party API usage fees. This Actor charges only for data processing, normalization, deduplication, enrichment, and Apify dataset/report generation.

### Output

Each dataset item follows the normalized Global News Intelligence article shape:

- `sourcePlatform`
- `sourceName`
- `title`
- `url`
- `publishedAt`
- `description`
- `content`
- `author`
- `imageUrl`
- `country`
- `language`
- `category`
- `keywords`
- `sentiment`
- `entities`
- `raw`

The key-value store record `SUMMARY` contains counts by source, publisher, country, language, category, sentiment, and date.

### Local run

```bash
apify run
```

For premium BYOK actors, fill the required secret input in Apify before running against the provider. Do not place real API keys in source code, README examples, GitHub, public Apify examples, logs, or dataset output.

# Actor input Schema

## `newsApiKey` (type: `string`):

Required. Use your own NewsAPI.org API key. This value is stored as an Apify secret input.

## `endpoint` (type: `string`):

NewsAPI endpoint to use.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Keyword, phrase, topic, or search query to collect news for.

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

2-letter ISO language code for the everything endpoint.

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

2-letter country code for top-headlines.

## `fromDate` (type: `string`):

Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `toDate` (type: `string`):

End date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort order for the everything endpoint.

## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of normalized articles to output.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "endpoint": "everything",
  "query": "artificial intelligence regulation",
  "language": "en",
  "sortBy": "publishedAt",
  "maxArticles": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "query": "artificial intelligence regulation"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("smart_tech_resources/newsapi").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 = { "query": "artificial intelligence regulation" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("smart_tech_resources/newsapi").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 '{
  "query": "artificial intelligence regulation"
}' |
apify call smart_tech_resources/newsapi --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/yat4Qy0vp2chsCISP/builds/I8LmEZUMpSUDHGr39/openapi.json