# Spaceflight News Scraper - Space Articles, Blogs & Reports (`ninhothedev/spaceflight-news-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast Spaceflight news scraper! Space articles, blogs & reports — title, site, summary & link. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Search & pull thousands for news aggregation & research ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/spaceflight-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 93.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.50 / 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.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

## Spaceflight News Scraper 🚀

**Scrape spaceflight & space news — articles, blogs and agency reports — with title, news site, summary, image, link, and related launch/event IDs. No API key. Datacenter-friendly. Fast and cheap.**

This Actor turns the open **Spaceflight News API (SNAPI v4)** into clean, structured, ready-to-use data on the Apify platform. Track SpaceX, NASA, Artemis, Starship, Blue Origin, ESA, ISRO, CNSA and hundreds of missions across dozens of publishers — in one export.

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### What it does

- Scrapes three content types: **articles**, **blogs**, and **reports**.
- **Full-text search** across titles and summaries (`spacex`, `nasa`, `starship`, `artemis`, …).
- Filter by a single **news site** (e.g. `SpaceNews`, `NASASpaceflight`, `NASA`).
- Returns items **newest-first** with pagination up to 1,000 per run.
- **No API key, no login, no proxy required** — plain JSON, runs cheaply on datacenter memory.

### Why use it

- 📰 **Space news aggregation** — build a live feed of everything happening in spaceflight.
- 🔬 **Research** — collect structured datasets on launches, missions, and agencies.
- ✉️ **Newsletters** — auto-fill a weekly space digest with fresh, linkable stories.
- 📡 **Media monitoring** — watch mentions of a company, rocket, or program across publishers.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `mode` | select | Scraping mode. `news` fetches the chosen content type. |
| `type` | select | `articles` (default), `blogs`, or `reports`. |
| `search` | string | Optional full-text search, e.g. `spacex`. |
| `newsSite` | string | Optional single publisher filter, e.g. `SpaceNews`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max items to scrape (default 100, max 1000). |

#### Example input

```json
{
  "mode": "news",
  "type": "articles",
  "search": "spacex",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

### Output

One dataset item per news item. All fields are nullable.

```json
{
  "id": 39081,
  "type": "articles",
  "title": "Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Starship, and Chinese rockets scheduled to launch",
  "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/launch-preview-072026/",
  "image_url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/julia-streak-3.jpg",
  "news_site": "NASASpaceflight",
  "summary": "After last week's aborted Starship Flight 13 launch, SpaceX is scheduling a new attempt.",
  "published_at": "2026-07-20T20:53:25+00:00",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-20T21:00:13.983259+00:00",
  "featured": false,
  "launches": ["72eebd7f-2051-4357-b643-c41246c0be1e"],
  "events": [],
  "source": "spaceflightnews",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00"
}
```

`launches` and `events` are lists of Launch Library 2 IDs you can cross-reference with launch/event APIs.

### Pricing

Pay-per-result, roughly **$0.50 per 1,000 items**. A typical 100-item run costs a fraction of a cent in compute — great for scheduled monitoring.

### Related actors

- [Google News Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/google-news-scraper)
- [GDELT News Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/gdelt-news-scraper)
- [NASA NEO Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/nasa-neo-scraper)
- [Hacker News Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/hacker-news-scraper)

### FAQ

**Do I need an API key?** No. The Spaceflight News API is open and key-less.

**How fresh is the data?** Items are ordered newest-first and the source updates continuously.

**Can I schedule it?** Yes — use Apify Schedules to run it hourly/daily and append to a dataset or trigger integrations (Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks).

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# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Scraping mode. 'news' fetches space articles, blogs or reports of the chosen content type, optionally filtered by search term and/or news site.

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

Which content type to scrape from the Spaceflight News API: news 'articles', 'blogs' or agency 'reports'.

## `search` (type: `string`):

Optional full-text search across title and summary. Example: 'spacex', 'nasa', 'artemis', 'starship'. Leave empty to fetch the latest items.

## `newsSite` (type: `string`):

Optional filter to a single news site / publisher name (e.g. 'NASASpaceflight', 'SpaceNews', 'NASA'). Leave empty to include all sites.

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

Maximum number of items to scrape. Results are paginated in pages of 100 and ordered newest-first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "news",
  "type": "articles",
  "search": "spacex",
  "newsSite": "SpaceNews",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# 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("ninhothedev/spaceflight-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("ninhothedev/spaceflight-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 ninhothedev/spaceflight-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3dnZ6ngYfNjiAHfqP/builds/L7IV9aQcC5SKmjftI/openapi.json