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Top 10 NEWS APIs & Scrapers in 2026 — Ranked by Active Users

Looking for the best news tools? I put together a list of the top 10 most popular ones on Apify, ranked by active users.

1. Reddit Scraper Lite

31K users | 4.6/5 rating | Pay per event

Pay Per Result, unlimited Reddit web scraper to crawl posts, comments, communities, and users without login. Limit web scraping by number of posts or

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2. Google Trends Scraper

10K users | 3.1/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape data from Google Trends by search terms or URLs. Specify locations, define time ranges, select categories to get interest by subregion and over

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3. Google News Scraper

2K users | 3.8/5 rating | Pay per event

Powerful Google News scraper, collect up to 5000 news articles with flexible search options, language support. Perfect for news aggregation, market re

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4. Facebook Posts Search

3K users | 4.7/5 rating | Pay per event

✨ Search for Facebook posts using keywords or hashtags. Retrieve post URLs, content, publication dates, author details, and engagement metrics. Ideal

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5. Smart Article Extractor

8K users | 4.1/5 rating | Free

📰 Smart Article Extractor extracts articles from any scientific, academic, or news website with just one click. The extractor crawls the whole websit

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6. Google Jobs Scraper

3K users | 4.7/5 rating | Pay per event

The most advanced Google Jobs Scraper available! Built with enterprise-grade flexibility, lightning-fast performance, and comprehensive customization

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7. Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)

1K users | 4.8/5 rating | Pay per event

Scrape Google News in real time, including images and descriptions. This tool extracts complete structured data: high-resolution visuals, full, titles

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8. Wellfound Jobs Scraper

1K users | 5.0/5 rating | Pay per event

The latest and most advanced Wellfound, Angel list Jobs Scraper. Our Wellfound, Angel list Jobs Scraper extracts real-time job postings at scale from

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9. RSS Feed Reader

93 users | New rating | Pay per event

This actor fetches and parses RSS 2.0, Atom, and RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds into clean, structured JSON data. It extracts article titles, links, publication

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10. New York Times News Scraper

31 users | New rating | Pay per event

Extracts full New York Times articles while successfully bypassing partial-render paywalls to ensure complete content delivery.

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Why Apify?

All of these tools run in the cloud with zero setup. No servers, no proxies, no code. Just configure your inputs and get structured data back as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

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