{ "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Patch.com Local News, Events & Classifieds Finder", "description": "Search Patch.com's hyperlocal US news by keyword, town, category, author, or tag, and browse its local events calendar or classifieds board, with date-range and distance filters.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "kgvnqgKSosfpPzZC4" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/dataspryva~patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-dataspryva-patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/dataspryva~patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-dataspryva-patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/dataspryva~patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-dataspryva-patch-com-local-news-events-and-classifieds-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "mode" ], "properties": { "mode": { "title": "Mode", "enum": [ "search", "byTown", "byCategory", "byAuthor", "byTag", "events", "classifieds", "byUrl" ], "type": "string", "description": "What to fetch from Patch.com.", "default": "search" }, "startUrls": { "title": "Patch URLs", "type": "array", "description": "mode=byUrl only. Paste Patch article, event, classified, town, category/topic, state or search URLs. Article/event/classified URLs are scraped directly; town/topic/state/search URLs are converted into the equivalent scoped query.", "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL", "description": "A full Patch.com URL (or patch.com/... path)." } } } }, "searchQuery": { "title": "Search query", "type": "string", "description": "Free-text keyword to search for (mode=search; also applies to mode=events/classifieds and to scope URLs). Leave empty to browse the newest articles matching the other filters." }, "searchMatch": { "title": "Search match", "enum": [ "allWords", "exactPhrase" ], "type": "string", "description": "How multi-word searches match. \"All words\" requires every word anywhere in the headline/summary/topic (more results). \"Exact phrase\" requires the words to appear together (the old behavior).", "default": "allWords" }, "authorName": { "title": "Author name", "type": "string", "description": "Exact byline/reporter/poster name (required for mode=byAuthor; on any other mode it is an extra server-side filter). Copy it from this actor's `author` output field, e.g. \"Eric Heyl\".", "default": "" }, "tagName": { "title": "Tag name", "type": "string", "description": "Exact editorial tag (required for mode=byTag; on article modes it is an extra filter). Copy it from this actor's `tags` field, e.g. \"Back To School\". Only a minority of articles carry tags.", "default": "" }, "regionSlug": { "title": "State", "enum": [ "", "across-america", "alabama", "alaska", "arizona", "arkansas", "california", "colorado", "connecticut", "delaware", "district-columbia", "florida", "georgia", "hawaii", "idaho", "illinois", "indiana", "iowa", "kansas", "kentucky", "louisiana", "maine", "maryland", "massachusetts", "michigan", "minnesota", "mississippi", "missouri", "montana", "nebraska", "nevada", "new-hampshire", "new-jersey", "new-mexico", "new-york", "north-carolina", "north-dakota", "ohio", "oklahoma", "oregon", "pennsylvania", "rhode-island", "south-carolina", "south-dakota", "tennessee", "texas", "us-territories", "utah", "vermont", "virginia", "washington", "west-virginia", "wisconsin", "wyoming" ], "type": "string", "description": "US state/edition to scope results to (required for mode=byTown; optional filter on every other mode). \"Across America\" is Patch's national edition (code US); \"US Territories\" is a valid Patch region with no current articles.", "default": "" }, "townSlug": { "title": "Town/city slug", "type": "string", "description": "Patch town/city URL slug (required for mode=byTown; requires regionSlug too). Find it in a Patch URL, e.g. patch.com/california/santamonica -> \"santamonica\". Example: \"santamonica\" (with regionSlug=california).", "default": "" }, "category": { "title": "Category", "enum": [ "", "around-town", "arts-entertainment", "bulletinboard", "business", "going-green", "holidays", "kids-family", "lifestyle", "obituaries", "personal-finance", "pets", "police-fire", "politics", "real-estate", "restaurants-bars", "schools", "small-business-voices", "sports", "traffic-transit", "travel", "weather" ], "type": "string", "description": "News category/topic to filter by (required for mode=byCategory; optional filter on mode=search/byTown/byAuthor/byTag). Not applicable to mode=events/classifieds -- use `classifiedCategory` for mode=classifieds instead.", "default": "" }, "classifiedCategory": { "title": "Classified category", "enum": [ "", "announcements", "for-sale", "free-stuff", "gigs-services", "housing", "lost-found", "news-tip", "opinion", "other", "question", "recommendation" ], "type": "string", "description": "Classifieds category to filter by (mode=classifieds only; a completely separate value set from `category`, which is news-only). Leave as \"(any category)\" to browse every classified category.", "default": "" }, "sortBy": { "title": "Sort by", "enum": [ "relevance", "newest", "oldest", "nearest", "eventDate" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order of results. \"Nearest first\" requires both `nearLat`/`nearLng` AND mode=search/byTown/byCategory/byAuthor/byTag (news); otherwise it falls back to Relevance. \"Soonest event first\" requires mode=events; on any other mode it also falls back to Relevance.", "default": "relevance" }, "publishedAfter": { "title": "Published after (YYYY-MM-DD)", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Only include articles/events/classifieds posted to Patch on or after this date (i.e. listing date, not an event's own occurrence date -- see `eventDateAfter` for that). Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Combine with `publishedBefore` for a date range." }, "publishedBefore": { "title": "Published before (YYYY-MM-DD)", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "Only include articles/events/classifieds posted to Patch on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Combine with `publishedAfter` for a date range." }, "eventDateAfter": { "title": "Event date after (YYYY-MM-DD)", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "mode=events only. Only include events occurring on or after this date (the event's own date, not when it was posted to Patch -- see `publishedAfter` for that). Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Combine with `eventDateBefore` for a date range, e.g. \"what's happening this weekend\"." }, "eventDateBefore": { "title": "Event date before (YYYY-MM-DD)", "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$", "type": "string", "description": "mode=events only. Only include events occurring on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Combine with `eventDateAfter` for a date range." }, "nearLat": { "title": "Near latitude", "minimum": -90, "maximum": 90, "type": "number", "description": "Latitude of a point to search near (combine with `nearLng` and `radiusMiles`). News modes only (search/byTown/byCategory/byAuthor/byTag) -- not available for mode=events/classifieds, whose Patch indexes don't expose a filterable location field. Both `nearLat` and `nearLng` must be set together; otherwise this filter is ignored." }, "nearLng": { "title": "Near longitude", "minimum": -180, "maximum": 180, "type": "number", "description": "Longitude of a point to search near (combine with `nearLat` and `radiusMiles`). News modes only -- see `nearLat` description. Both `nearLat` and `nearLng` must be set together; otherwise this filter is ignored." }, "radiusMiles": { "title": "Radius (miles)", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Search radius around `nearLat`/`nearLng`, in miles. News modes only -- see `nearLat` description. Ignored unless both `nearLat` and `nearLng` are set.", "default": 25 }, "includeBodyText": { "title": "Include full body text", "type": "boolean", "description": "Add bodyHtml (the original HTML), bodyText (readable plain text) and bodyLength to each record. Article/event/classified bodies come from Patch's own search payload, so this costs no extra request.", "default": true }, "includeDetails": { "title": "Enrich from detail pages", "type": "boolean", "description": "Fetch each record's Patch page and add gallery images/captions/credits, author avatar and points, comment/reply counts, breaking/sponsored flags, town grade/weekly views/ZIPs/timezone/county/metro, event venue/type/website, and classified contact state. One extra request per record; failed pages never discard the base record.", "default": false }, "maxDetails": { "title": "Max detail pages", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "How many records to enrich when `includeDetails` is on. 0 means every emitted record (up to `maxItems`). Ignored when detail enrichment is off.", "default": 100 }, "monitorMode": { "title": "Monitor: only new records", "type": "boolean", "description": "Emit only records whose Patch ID has not been seen by an earlier run with the same monitor key. State is stored in the actor's key-value store.", "default": false }, "monitorKey": { "title": "Monitor key", "type": "string", "description": "Optional namespace for monitor state. Give different saved tasks different keys to keep their seen-ID lists separate. Derived automatically from the mode and filters when empty.", "default": "" }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max results", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of articles, events or classifieds to return (1-1000). Requests above 250 are automatically split into date partitions to bypass Patch's 250-hit search-key window.", "default": 25 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_UNBLOCKER_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }