# AP News Scraper — Breaking News Feed API (`nexgendata/ap-news-scraper`) Actor

Monitor AP News for breaking-news coverage. Clean JSON for PR, media-monitoring teams and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/ap-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 13 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 news articles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 📰 AP News Scraper — Breaking News, Articles & Headlines from the Associated Press

Pull breaking news, full articles, headlines, and section feeds from Associated Press (apnews.com) — by topic, region, or keyword. A drop-in **alternative to** the AP enterprise subscription, NewsAPI ($449/mo), GDELT, Aylien, and Webhose — without enterprise contracts or seat fees.

### Why This Scraper Beats NewsAPI, GDELT, Aylien, Webhose & AP Direct Subscription

| Feature | NexGenData AP News Scraper | NewsAPI | GDELT | Aylien | Webhose | AP Direct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $5 per 1,000 articles, pay-per-event | $449 - $1,999 / month | Free (quota) | Enterprise sales | $299 - $1,499 / month | Enterprise subscription |
| AP coverage | Full apnews.com | Subset, syndicated | AP via news feeds | Curated | Curated | Native AP |
| Bulk export | Unlimited CSV / JSON / Excel | API JSON | API JSON | API JSON | API JSON | Per contract |
| Auth | Apify token | API key + plan | API key | OAuth | API key | Enterprise contract |
| Time-to-first-row | < 60 seconds | Plan signup | API signup | Sales cycle | Plan signup | Sales cycle |
| Output | Clean JSON | JSON | JSON | JSON | JSON | Variable |
| Schedule + webhook | Native | Plan-gated | None | Plan-gated | Plan-gated | Custom |
| Free tier | Apify free credits | 100 / day dev | Yes (heavy throttle) | Trial | Trial | None |

Most media-intel teams pick this scraper because it is the **only** way to scrape full AP News articles into a CSV at $5/1K — no $449/mo NewsAPI subscription, no enterprise AP contract.

### What You Get

Each article includes:

- **Headline**, subhead, byline (where present)
- **Full article body** (clean text, paragraph-segmented)
- **Published timestamp** + last-updated timestamp
- **Section / category** (Politics, Business, Sports, etc.)
- **Tags** assigned by AP
- **Article URL** (canonical apnews.com)
- **Lead image URL** + caption
- **Related-article URLs** from AP's onsite "related stories"
- **Word count** + estimated read-time
- **Scrape timestamp** for replay / audit

Output is clean JSON — pipe directly into Snowflake, BigQuery, Sheets, or any LLM ingestion pipeline.

### Use Cases

- **Brand monitoring** — track AP mentions of a company or executive in near-real-time
- **Equity research** — pull AP coverage of a ticker before earnings
- **PR / comms** — measure share-of-voice across AP vs Reuters vs Bloomberg
- **Crisis monitoring** — schedule hourly AP scrapes during a developing story
- **Investor relations** — auto-summarize AP coverage in the IR dashboard
- **Trading bots** — feed AP breaking-news into a sentiment model
- **Policy / regulatory teams** — track AP coverage of Federal Register rules
- **Academic media research** — sample AP coverage longitudinally for journalism studies

### Quick Start

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/ap-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "queries": ["Federal Reserve", "OpenAI"],
    "section": "business",
    "maxArticles": 100
})
for article in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(article["headline"], article["publishedAt"])
```

### Pricing

Pay-per-event — no monthly minimum:

- **Actor Start:** ~$0.0002 per run
- **Result:** $0.005 per article scraped

Examples:

- 100 articles ≈ $0.50
- 1,000 articles ≈ $5
- 10,000 articles / month ≈ $50
- Daily 200-article monitor ≈ $30 / month

Compare to NewsAPI Business at $449/mo flat — this actor is roughly **15× cheaper** at typical monitoring volumes.

### Related NexGenData Actors

| Use case | Actor |
|----------|-------|
| News + media monitoring for AI agents | [News MCP Server](https://apify.com/nexgendata/news-mcp-server?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| PR Newswire press release feed | [PR Newswire Press Releases Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-newswire-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| Reddit subreddit + post trend tracking | [Reddit Subreddit Trends](https://apify.com/nexgendata/reddit-subreddit-trends?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| Hacker News stories + comments scraper | [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hacker-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| AI sentiment analysis on any text | [AI Sentiment Analyzer](https://apify.com/nexgendata/ai-sentiment-analyzer?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| Crunchbase News (dead-tool replacement) | [Crunchbase News Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/crunchbase-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| Federal Register rule + regulation tracker | [Federal Register Rules Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/federal-register-rules-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) |
| Finance + market data for AI agents | [Finance MCP Server](https://apify.com/nexgendata/finance-mcp-server?fpr=2ayu9b) |

### FAQ

**Q: Is this licensed AP content?**
You scrape publicly visible apnews.com articles. For redistribution beyond internal monitoring / analysis, check AP's terms or talk to AP directly about a license.

**Q: How fresh is the data?**
Live — each request hits apnews.com in real time. Schedule the actor every 5-10 minutes for near-real-time breaking-news ingestion.

**Q: Can I filter by date?**
Yes — pass `dateMin` / `dateMax` in ISO format.

**Q: Does it include images?**
Lead image URL + caption are captured. Image download itself is not part of the actor (point at the URL with your own pipeline).

**Q: Is this rate-limited?**
Apify rotates proxies + manages concurrency. For typical monitoring volumes (hundreds to low thousands of articles per day) there is no practical limit.

**Q: Can I subscribe to a single topic?**
Yes — pass a topic / keyword query and schedule the actor. New articles only land in the dataset; previously-seen URLs are de-duplicated.

**Q: How do I avoid pulling the same article twice?**
The actor de-duplicates by canonical URL within a run. Across runs, store seen-URLs in your warehouse and filter on insert.

### 📰 The NexGenData Newswire & News Suite

**Don't monitor one wire — cover them all.** Pair this with the rest of the suite for complete PR, press-release, and news coverage from a single vendor with one consistent output schema.

**Press-release wires**

- [PR Newswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-newswire-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — US corporate announcements & earnings releases
- [PR Newswire Asia](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-newswire-asia-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — APAC corporate announcements
- [Business Wire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/business-wire-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — company press releases & disclosures
- [GlobeNewswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/globenewswire-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — listed-company news & regulatory filings
- [EIN Presswire](https://apify.com/nexgendata/ein-presswire-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — broad-distribution press releases
- [PR Web](https://apify.com/nexgendata/pr-web-press-releases-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — SMB & small-business press releases

**News & headlines**

- **AP News** — Associated Press breaking news & articles *(← you are here)*
- [BBC News](https://apify.com/nexgendata/bbc-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — global BBC headlines & articles
- [Google News](https://apify.com/nexgendata/google-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — aggregated headlines & trending topics
- [Hacker News](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hacker-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — tech & startup stories and discussion
- [Crunchbase News](https://apify.com/nexgendata/crunchbase-news-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b) — funding rounds, M\&A & startup headlines

**Regional / regulatory**

- [Investegate RNS](https://apify.com/nexgendata/investegate-rns-aggregator?fpr=2ayu9b) — UK LSE/AIM regulatory (RNS) announcements

### About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 260+ buyer-intent actors covering SEC filings, YC alumni, lead generation, competitive intelligence, stock fundamentals across 30+ exchanges, news + media monitoring, and MCP servers for AI agents. All pay-per-result. Browse the full catalog at https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b

***

### How NexGenData Pricing Works

Every NexGenData actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing — you only pay for results that actually land in your dataset. No monthly minimum, no seat fees, no surprise overage bills.

- **Actor Start:** a single-event charge each time you spin the actor up (scaled to memory size)
- **Result:** charged per item written to the default dataset
- **No charge** for retries, internal proxy rotation, or failed sub-requests — those are absorbed by the platform

If you only need the data once a quarter, you only pay once a quarter. If you scale to millions of records, the unit cost stays the same.

### Apify Platform Bonus

New to Apify? Sign up with the NexGenData [referral link](https://www.apify.com/?fpr=2ayu9b) — you get free platform credits on signup (enough for several thousand free results) and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

### Integration Surface

Every actor in the NexGenData catalog can be triggered from:

- **Apify console** — point-and-click run
- **Apify API** — REST + webhooks
- **Apify Python / JS SDKs** — programmatic batch
- **Zapier, Make.com, n8n** — official integrations
- **MCP** — many actors are exposed as MCP tools for Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor agents
- **Schedules** — built-in cron for daily / weekly / monthly runs
- **Webhooks** — POST results to any HTTPS endpoint on dataset write

### Support

NexGenData maintains 260+ Apify actors and ships updates regularly. Bug reports via the Apify console issues tab get a response within 24 hours. Roadmap requests are welcome — high-demand features ship in the next version.

🏠 Home: [thenextgennexus.com](https://thenextgennexus.com)
📦 Full catalog: [apify.com/nexgendata](https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b)

### Quick start

**Input** (paste into the input editor or pass via API):

```json
{
  "maxArticles": 20
}
```

**Example output** (one record; representative fields):

```json
{
  "title": "...",
  "url": "https://apnews.com/article/...",
  "author": "The Associated Press",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-04T12:00:00Z",
  "section": "Business",
  "text": "..."
}
```

**Pricing:** $0.02 per article. You pay only for results, billed per run by Apify.

**Data freshness:** AP News, fetched live at run time — results are as fresh as the moment you run it.

**Use it in a workflow:** chain this with related NexGenData actors, or drop it into n8n via the [`n8n-nodes-nexgendata`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n-nodes-nexgendata) community nodes. Browse the full [NexGenData storefront by workflow](https://thenextgennexus.com/actors-by-workflow/).

### You might also need

- \[pr-newswire-press-releases-scraper]\(https://apify.com/nexgendata/Tracking corporate news? Add the press-release firehose with tickers & JSON-LD — PR Newswire Scraper?fpr=2ayu9b)

# Actor input Schema

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

Maximum number of articles to scrape

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxArticles": 20
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/ap-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/ap-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 '{}' |
apify call nexgendata/ap-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/wkEnoaCeLDGKFEfEz/builds/7pYobHjBTTOuM5Sn8/openapi.json