How to Feed Your AI Agent Fresh News on Any Topic, No News API
Turn a topic or company name into structured news for briefs and alerts.
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Find the source you need above. Open its Apify page to check the inputs, output, and price.
Create an Apify account, enter your URLs or search terms, and start a small run in the console.
Export your results, connect them to your tools, or schedule the next run when you need fresh data.
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Read on DEVSample inputs from published actor schemas. Review required fields on Apify, edit the JSON, and copy a call for your application.
Use Apify’s API, schedules, and MCP integration to bring web data into your existing tools.
Use actors as MCP tools. Point your agent at mcp.apify.com, authenticate with your token, and select the actors you want to use. Append ?actors=george.the.developer/<slug> to preload a specific actor. Grab the slug from any catalog row.
claude mcp add apify -t http https://mcp.apify.com \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN"
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" } } } }
[mcp_servers.apify]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com",
"--header", "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"]
# any MCP-capable client, one URL: https://mcp.apify.com?actors=george.the.developer/<slug> # discovery tools included, agents can find actors themselves
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