# Startpage News Scraper (`igolaizola/startpage-news-scraper`) Actor

Scrape news SERPs from startpage.com, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Search. Collect headlines, article URLs, summaries, publishers, dates, images, rankings, and regional filters. Export JSON, CSV, or Excel, or access results via API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/igolaizola/startpage-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Iñigo Garcia Olaizola](https://apify.com/igolaizola) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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

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# README

## Startpage News Scraper — News SERPs, Publishers & Monitoring

Startpage News Scraper extracts news SERPs from startpage.com, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Search. Use it for media monitoring, reputation tracking, trend research, and competitive intelligence; collect headlines, article URLs, summaries, publishers, dates, images, and rankings for export in JSON, CSV, or Excel, or access them via API.

### 🤖 What does Startpage News Scraper do?

- **Article discovery** — collect headlines, destination URLs, display URLs, and summaries.
- **Source tracking** — identify publishers and publication dates.
- **Visual context** — capture thumbnail URLs and dimensions when available.
- **Ranking context** — retain overall position, result page, and page-level position.
- **Anonymous View links** — collect privacy-viewing links when Startpage provides them.
- **Search targeting** — control region, language, Safe Search, time period, and result count.

**Great for:** brand monitoring, PR reporting, news research, issue tracking, and competitive intelligence.

> SEO keywords: **startpage.com news scraper**, **news SERP scraper**, **Google Search alternative**, **news monitoring API alternative**, **headline extractor**, **Apify actor**.

### 💡 Why scrape Startpage news?

- 📰 **Monitor coverage** — follow brands, executives, products, competitors, or events.
- ⏱️ **Spot emerging stories** — use recent time filters to identify new reporting quickly.
- 📣 **Measure visibility** — compare which publishers and articles rank around a topic.
- 📊 **Build reports** — export structured headlines, dates, sources, and summaries.
- 🌍 **Compare markets** — examine how coverage changes across regions and languages.

### 🚀 How to use

1. **Add the actor** — open **Startpage News Scraper** in Apify Store.
2. **Enter `queries`** — add one or more companies, people, products, industries, or events.
3. **Set `maxItems`** — choose a limit and optional regional or recency filters.
4. **Run the actor** — click **Run** or trigger it through an Apify integration.
5. **Download results** — export the Dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or another supported format.

### 📝 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `queries` | String array | Yes | News search keywords. Each query is paginated before the next starts. |
| `maxItems` | Integer | Yes | Maximum news results to save across all queries. Set `0` for unlimited. Minimum `0`; prefilled with `10`. |
| `region` | String | No | Preferred result region. Choose `all` or a supported locale such as `en_US`, `fr_FR`, or `de_DE`. Default `all`. |
| `language` | String | No | Preferred result language selected from 82 Startpage-supported languages. Default `english`. |
| `safeSearch` | String | No | Explicit-content filtering: `strict` · `moderate` · `off`. Default `moderate`. |
| `timePeriod` | String | No | Recency filter: `any` · `day` · `week` · `month` · `year`. Default `any`. |

**Daily industry monitoring**

```json
{
  "queries": ["artificial intelligence regulation", "AI safety policy"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "region": "en_US",
  "language": "english",
  "safeSearch": "moderate",
  "timePeriod": "day"
}
```

**European brand coverage**

```json
{
  "queries": ["electric vehicle battery investment"],
  "maxItems": 250,
  "region": "de_DE",
  "language": "deutsch",
  "safeSearch": "strict",
  "timePeriod": "month"
}
```

### 📊 Output Results

Each Dataset item can contain:

- **query**, **position**, **page**, **pagePosition** — search and ranking context.
- **title** — article headline.
- **url** — destination article URL.
- **displayUrl** — URL displayed in the result.
- **description** — article summary returned by Startpage.
- **publisher** — news source name.
- **published** — publication date.
- **thumbnailUrl** *(conditional)* — preview image URL.
- **imageWidth**, **imageHeight** *(conditional)* — preview dimensions in pixels.
- **anonymousViewUrl** *(conditional)* — Startpage Anonymous View link.

```json
{
  "query": "artificial intelligence regulation",
  "position": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pagePosition": 1,
  "title": "New artificial intelligence rules enter final review",
  "url": "https://www.example.com/technology/ai-rules-final-review",
  "displayUrl": "https://www.example.com/technology/ai-rules-final-review",
  "description": "Regulators published updated guidance for companies developing and deploying AI systems.",
  "publisher": "Example News",
  "published": "2026-07-15",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ONUT.example&pid=News",
  "imageWidth": 1024,
  "imageHeight": 576,
  "anonymousViewUrl": "https://browse.startpage.com/anonymous/example"
}
```

### 🧭 Common Recipes

- **Daily media brief:** use `timePeriod="day"` and schedule the actor every morning.
- **Brand reputation tracking:** search a brand plus product, executive, or issue terms.
- **Publisher analysis:** collect 100–250 results and group them by `publisher`.
- **Regional comparison:** repeat the same query across target `region` and `language` values.

### ⚙️ Best Practices

- News indexes change quickly; save run timestamps in your downstream monitoring workflow.
- Publication metadata, summaries, and thumbnails may be absent for some articles.
- Keep queries, region, language, and time filters stable when comparing coverage over time.
- Review source articles before drawing conclusions from snippets alone.

### ⚖️ Legal & Ethical Considerations

- Review Startpage's terms and each publisher's usage policies.
- Respect copyright, quotation limits, and attribution requirements.
- Handle names and other personal information under applicable privacy laws.
- Keep request volumes reasonable and avoid disrupting publishers or search services.
- Verify important claims against the full source article before publishing analysis.

This Actor is an independent tool and is **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Startpage or the publishers represented in results**. All trademarks and articles belong to their respective owners.

### ❓ FAQ

**Does the actor scrape the full article text?**

No. It collects the news search result, summary, source, image metadata, and article link.

**Why are some publisher or image fields missing?**

Those fields are conditional and depend on the metadata Startpage returns for each story.

**Can I monitor news automatically?**

Yes. Schedule recurring runs and compare URLs, headlines, publishers, and dates in your preferred storage workflow.

**Which time period should I use?**

Use `day` for fast-moving stories, `week` for a briefing, and `month` or `year` for broader research.

### 🛟 Support

Need another news field, filter, or reporting workflow? Contact the developer at https://igolaizola.com/#contact or https://t.me/igolaizola.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

One or more search queries. Each query is paginated fully before the next one starts.

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

Maximum number of news results to save across all queries.

## `region` (type: `string`):

Region whose news results should be preferred.

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

Preferred language for search results.

## `safeSearch` (type: `string`):

Level of explicit-content filtering.

## `timePeriod` (type: `string`):

Only return results from the selected recent period.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "sports"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "region": "all",
  "language": "english",
  "safeSearch": "moderate",
  "timePeriod": "any"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "queries": [
        "sports"
    ],
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("igolaizola/startpage-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 = {
    "queries": ["sports"],
    "maxItems": 10,
}

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "queries": [
    "sports"
  ],
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call igolaizola/startpage-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=igolaizola/startpage-news-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2Qw2iK0Lg7DAwvrtJ/builds/58juaKX0xpJ0XIaD7/openapi.json